I'm Still Alex - 003 - eyeliner
Aug 02, 2025
Last night I sat down to write the text post to accompany this comic, but I began spiraling. There were so many things that I wanted to say that before I was even halfway through it was already three pages long.
I’m just going to truncate my thoughts.
It wasn’t the questions that bothered me, it was that I wasn’t believed.
It was that they doubled down and told me that I was “repressed”.
It was that me saying their words hurt me was apparently the wrong thing to say, and I was attacked for doing so.
It was that they told me they didn’t mean to hurt me when I knew that and already said so in my initial text to them.
It was that they told me that they were “going out of their way” for me.
One – trans tomboys exist and just because I might not want the same things you do, that doesn’t mean that my experience is invalid.
Two – I am not your charity case trans person that you need to “go out of your way” for.
Three – I thought I was your friend. In my mind, when you help a friend you’re not “going out of your way”, you help because you genuinely want to and don’t even think about whether or not it’s an inconvenience.
Four – no matter what, I still consider you a friend and though I need some time, I hope some day we can share our journeys with each other again.
KevlarKid
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I've been terrified of doing things that are feminine since I was a kid, because of being made fun of in a way that deeply traumatized me. My family tells me that it's ok to do feminine things, but I just can't. I'm too afraid.
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