nekropsii:
nekropsii:
You guys do know that transitioning doesn’t change your entire personality, right. It doesn’t fix you. It doesn’t magically solve all of your problems. And it sure as fuck doesn’t make it so that your sole character trait is your gender. You guys know that, right?
June isn’t magically going to become a cutesy hyperfeminine bimbo type just because she transitioned. You guys do know who Egbert is in the comic, right? Is this how you think women act?
speaking from personal experience (albeit in the opposite direction): transitioning is not instantaneous, nor is it a magic cure for dysphoria and negative mental health.
it’s a process that takes years, and while it gives you momentum, it’s not going to magically erase all of your trauma and maladaptive tendencies. self-realization, becoming the most comfortable, happy, and healthy version of yourself, is something that takes time and effort and therapy for anyone, especially someone who’s been through the level of bullshit that june has.
she doesn’t decide to transition and then magically become a maniac pixie dream girl with no depression or self-isolative tendencies to speak of. she grows her hair out into a mullet-esque mop cut and gets a skort to wear around the house and goes to therapy, and it’s hard.
it’s messy and she struggles, but she tries. she tries, and she puts herself out there to watch shitty movies with dave and jade and debate the semantics of magic and wizardry with rose and plays pranks on karkat and gets into shenanigans with terezi, and it all works out in the end.
the crescendo of her transition isn’t throwing out her cargo shorts or getting really good at makeup or whatever stereotypical bullshit is supposed to indicate “”femininity“”, it’s doing her eyeliner with sharpie because it’s more practical that way and booking herself a stand-up gig at a comedy club. her routine is absolutely atrocious, a total groaner, and she goes back the next week to do it again because she loves it.
being a woman doesn’t mean changing herself or her personality to fit in with some empty, corporate ideal of womanhood. it means finding the courage to express herself in a way that is true and comfortable to who she really is.