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(hey Greg, pronouns?) eeeeeeh I have no idea what type of book I want to get but I'll tell you soon I promise!

meh why not i'm in

Alas, I am a vegan, so no pizza for me. (I would still like a book, though!)

^ I'm not denying that they aren't "girlish"/transgender, I'm just saying that a person assigned male at birth (AMAB) who wears 'women's' clothing isn't necessarily a woman. Yes, plenty of AMAB people who are transgender wear 'women's' clothing and consider themselves women - more power to them! Not everyone is like that, though.

^ (Just FYI, "boys who dress like girls" are not necessarily girls. :nice: ) I mean, if you're basically outed, is that worth not having the risk of sexual assault? idk (in some cases, I imagine, being outed would make you more likely to be sexually assaulted anyway. So.))

^ I mean, I went to a Trans* conference last year (A+ amazing), and there were only gender neutral restrooms, but there were definitely cis people there, and they were using the gender neutral restrooms without much thought. :shrug:

ugh I have so much to say about this First of all (this is only in the article, I know, but I just wanted to say it), "transgenders" is NOT a word. Transgender is not a noun, it's an adjective. (Yes, I realize people say "gays," but by the same principle, they shouldn't) Secondly (and more importantly): Do you know how terrified I am of using the women's bathroom? (I'm AFAB - assigned female at birth - but identify as agender/gender neutral, and present kind of "boyishly," for those of you who don't know me well. This means I fall under the trans*gender umbrella.) I have to, because there is literally nothing else for me to use except the gender-neutral handicapped restaurants, and those only pop up once in a while. Seriously, I've had women (assuming) give me weird looks, come in to the bathroom and say "Are you supposed to be in here?," and someone at school telling me that I was going into the girl's bathroom (I guess he thought I was a guy?). I can't use the men's bathroom though, either, because my bottom half "gives me away" as a girl (lol) all the time. So. Thirdly: rapist issue. Are you actually kidding me? Trans* people (and most other people, for that matter), though they do rape, rarely do it as often as others. Heck, I would be more scared of a cisgender [assigned ____ at birth and identifying that way] man in the bathroom than another trans* person. Fourly (on to the actual article), this is kind of a bad idea. If you're transgender, that doesn't necessarily mean that you're non-binary [not a woman/man]. That, and this would be outing people as trans*, which is a really, reaaaally bad idea, especially for trans* women, who get killed all the time. I'm not binary trans* myself, but this would be an awful way to come out. tl;dr there shouldn't be separate bathrooms for transgender people and I basically agree with Thalia (wow lots of trans* rage whoops) (I know I used a crapload of vocabulary terms all at once, sorry for that) (parentheses) EDIT: also, it's asexual, not a-sexual, but that's not really related to being transgender necessarily anyway sooooo

Among other things, I want to FINALLY LEARN FREAKING RUSSIAN. I'm kind of saddened at the fact that I can't even talk/communicate with half of my family in their native language. Also omg hi brent

i forgot you were turning 16 but happy birthday~

Romanian seems like a cool language, if your forgetting it might be nice to remember it. hahaha it's okay, you might end up meeting her if she comes to closing ceremonies :uhoh: Yeah, my mom doesn't have a strong accent at all. Until recently I couldn't even tell that she had an accent, aside from her weird pronunciation of a few words. Granted, she did learn how to read and write pretty early, but it's still pretty impressive. She still speaks Russian - it's a little hard to forget after 30 years. :P And I've tried, but I always get frustrated because I'm pretty terrible at learning languages. Even Latin, which is not even that difficult for me because of how much English has been influenced by it and how easy the grammar is. not to mention Russian is one of the hardest languages to learn as a non-native speaker :uhoh: That being said, I'm trying to teach myself on my own. Knowing only five words and not even the alphabet doesn't help me much, as does the fact that I can't roll my R's, but I CAN TRY GODDANGIT

To be honest, I'm surprised at how good my mom is at English, considering that she came here when she was 30 years old. She has an accent, but it's not really identifiable as Russian at all.

It's grammatically plural no matter what (though it can be singular, and yes I realize how confusing that is), so the "they are __" is the right way to go. It's kind of weird, I know, but then again, we say "you are __" whether referring to one person or a group of people. ENGLISH IS CRAZY

I mean, I don't even understand attraction, so I don't completely get the "obsessing over your significant other/crush" part, but the obsession thing makes perfect sense. That being said, I still obsess over youtubers to some degree. :| I couldn't ever be super sneaky, I hate breaking rules in general because of my personality. I couldn't care less if people sneak around, though. Just, DO YOUR LAUNDRY ON WEEKENDS PLEAAAASE (long story). THEY WERE SO FREAKING ADORABLE that reminds me, there was one time when they were being super snuggly (behind closed doors :sneaky:) in Jack's [more recent hallmate] room, and, at the time, Jack was taking meds for an ear infection. He missed taking the meds because of all the snugglytimes, and our RA knocked on his door...and Aaron [the hallmate from last year] had do to the walk of shame all the way back to his dorm. Also Aaron "got hit in the neck by a glowstick" 11 times In theory, my school is 960 people, but I say "in theory" because there are two other schools [technically the same, but one is middle school and one is high school] that are arts specialty schools that are in the same building. Yes, we have a huge school building. The two schools don't interact much, to be honest, but to some degree we do. Meh, I'm sticking to Lancaster - I only have one more year, and it's the place I'd prefer to be, if that makes sense. We have so many clubs, it's pretty ridiculous. I'm only part of the GSA [Gender Sexuality Alliance...I'm leading it this year, so I changed the name to be more inclusive], rowing club, and fencing club, all of which are really small clubs. Also hopefully 10th-12th grade math league, but we'll see how that goes. To be honest, I'm not that interested in clubs all that much. There is an anime club [yes really] that I might join, but I'm not sure how serious I am about getting into anime yet. Taameen made me get into two shows, but I haven't seen anything else. See, I'm able to be comfortable socially quite quickly, I just legitimately prefer to be alone and not do social things. I have gone to lengths so that other people avoid me instead of it being the other way around, just to avoid talking to people. [although I will admit that I sort of have trust issues in general, even with my own parents sooo] You mean Lancaster is the main site and everywhere else is different? :P /didn't even realize how close I was to 18k

oh hey i hit 18k

You don't even have to do anything at Acting Improv, you can just watch. Our Jester next year is SO FUNNY (I had a class with him so I know this for a fact), so it will probably be really good next year. At least, I hope so. And GLOW stands for Gay, Lesbian, or Whatever. It's really good in general, there was a genderfluid guy, another agender kid, a person who I don't know the gender identity of but used they/them pronouns, and three trans* guys. Also lots of lesbians/bi and pan girls. Yeah, going to informative things is always great. We don't have any week-long activities, though; we have to pick for each individual day.

My squirrel year was so cringeworthy in general. @_@ (come to think of it ALL of my years have been at least somewhat cringeworthy) Treating people as people is important. :nods: You want to talk about sneaking away? A guy in my hall (wooo trans peeps) started a relationship with another trans guy who was in my hall last year. THE LATTER WAS IN AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT DORM. They were/are WAY TOO ADORABLE I still laugh every time I think about the "Someone Like You" scene hahaha I don't think I actually have that many considering I go to a math and science specialty school. There should definitely be more than 5 (2 who barely count, I'm sorry to anyone who goes to Easton). /doesn't have school friends

Oh, and sign up for Acting Improv and GLOW next year. Trust me, you won't regret it.

I now have the ability to tell when someone is a squirrel just by how they're acting. i need a life I literally have only seen the episode of SNL that Coldplay was on after MX came out, so that's pretty much a no. :| Oh, I figured out that there's yet another CTYer who goes to my school. I say "yet another" because there's [at least] one who's a junior (holy crap I'm a sophomore) and this new person is a freshman. There are two CTYers that I know of in my grade too, but I don't really count them because they go to Easton.

i posted it~

I think they switched the colors, actually - we were supposed to get yellow, but they messed up the amount that they printed or something. I'm pretty much gone from Tumblr at this point, to be honest. :shrug: She seems like she's okay for the moment, though. She got into SNL BIG TIME, so I don't really have much to talk to her about any more. Sadness. :( ~goes off to post~

Taamen's still on FB (I have convos with Fran, Anthony, and/or Taameen most days, though that's probably going to decrease after we start getting more schoolwork), and Madison has a Tumblr. I don't actually talk much to Madison now, to be honest, which is a shame... I can ask on the LAN.13.2 page to see if anyone wants an extra one, if you want. Idk about any disco revival, I'm not into it much.

The new song is kind of disco, but in an Arcade Fire way, if that makes any sense. It reminds me a little of Get Lucky, actually, but a lot better than Get Lucky is. oh lord fashion

also Reflektor (Arcade Fire) leaked~

Wow, that's a lot of posters! I hope you find something interesting I just finished watching the newest episode of Shingeki no Kyojin/Attack on Titan (an anime - blame Taameen for that) and AAAAUGH SO EMOTIONAL also I haven't done any homework aside from my AP Calc stuff yet and I feel terrible for that

heeeey what's up with all of you?