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Charlie Knight [they/them]
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Charlie Knight [they/them]
@CKnightWrites
Editor/Author 🏳️⚧️ Gamer / Narrative Designer / N7 🎮 Twitch Affiliate👨🦽 Disabled & ND 💫 Queer Chaos Demon 😈 Trans Nonbinary ✡️ 🇵🇸
Joined February 2018
- I have a trans kid. At 5yo, he told us his correct pronouns and gender. Transition at that point was communicating that to everyone so he wasnt misgendered. At 6, transition was a haircut and letting him go shopping. That's all the transitioning any young child is doing. 🧵
- 2013, a cop at Pride decided I was involved in a fight (while holding my baby). He wanted to pat me down; I asked for a woman cop. He told me if I wanna look like a man, I get treated like a man and shoved his hand between my legs. Not the first or last time I was SA'd by a cop.Not a fan of the police? Next time you’re in trouble, call a crackhead. See how that works out. I’m always fighting to back law enforcement, but I can’t do it alone. This is an all-hands-on-deck kind of thing. If you’re with me and want to show your support, pitch in today.
- Replying to @CKnightWritesAnyone who tells you kids are being forced into surgeries knows they're lying. Anyone who tells you trans kids don't know what they want is either lying or has never met a trans kid. They claim to want to let these kids grow up and decide who they are. That's what we're doing.
- Since it's Disability Pride Month, I'd love to address something I see many issues with out in the wild: Wheelchair etiquette There are appropriate and inappropriate ways to interact with someone who is in a wheelchair. Knowing them benefits all involved. A non exhaustive 🧵
- Replying to @CKnightWritesWe aren't going to force him to deal with dysphoria when there is a safe, reversible way to avoid it. There is no surgery; no doctor would do it, and we don't want it. The blockers will allow him to develop safely and happily, and that's all any transition is supposed to do.
- Replying to @CKnightWritesNow he's ten. We've educated him on puberty and what will happen to his body. He wants his voice to drop and a chance to have a beard; he does not want breasts, and he doesn't want to menstruate. We're going to get him on puberty blockers soon.
- Replying to @CKnightWritesChildren are people. They know who they are. And even if who they are changes in fundamental ways as they grow, no one is preventing that. The reverse is true—we'd be forcing him to develop in a certain way if we didn't do puberty blockers. This way, his body is his to control.
- Replying to @CKnightWritesHis genitals are as irrelevant right now as they have been since the day he was born. The obsession that his genitalia should determine how his body develops and how he's supposed to feel about it is just ridiculous. It has no more relevance to his person than his brown eyes.
- Replying to @CKnightWritesWe've let him know that he has full bodily autonomy and that we respect it. We've taught him that no matter who he is today or tomorrow, we love him and will support him. We've raised a happy, healthy boy, and so long as hate doesn't get in the way, he'll stay happy and healthy.
- Replying to @CKnightWritesThis is the truth to raising transgender kids that the transphobic, hateful, dangerous "gender criticals" don't want you to see. They want to strip children of choice with their own bodies, and they want to create trauma. We have to stop them. #ProtectTransKids
- Replying to @CKnightWritesFair warning: giving children choice and bodily autonomy is an incredibly personal and meaningful thing to me, more as a CSA survivor than as a trans person myself. I will probably mute this thread early, esp. if hateful crowds find it. If you respond to them, untag me please.
- Good morning. Fanfic is a completely legitimate genre of fiction. It is only degraded so heavily because 1. women & queers dominate the author demographics (see the way romance and erotica are treated for further examples) and 2. it doesnt make money and capitalism is poison.
- They quote her in the article as saying her dad doesn't know and that she's nervous to tell him. So they outed this 13yo child on a larger platform and using his name. This is irresponsible journalism at best. Disgusting and dangerous. Demand @lgbtqnation delete and do better.
