transcreature:

How to tell a trans person they are beautiful.

Don’t do it right after I disclose to I am trans and you thought I was cis

Don’t do it with a condition that I shouldn’t change my body

Don’t expect me to believe you

Because I won’t

I can’t

There’s too many messages throughout the day that tell me

That my voice isn’t pretty

That girls with facial hair are ugly

That my junk disgusts them

Tell me I’m beautiful

and I’ll politely say thank you

Tell me I’m beautiful again

and I’ll say I know

But I still can’t feel it

It only goes skin deep

Tell me that I am beautiful,

I always have been and always will be

Say it so much that I can’t just brush it off

Say it with enough conviction

That the next time I see myself naked

That the words

You are beautiful are tattood across my flat chest

Catch me by surprise,

Tell me I’m beautiful when I’m not expecting you to

When I’m not trying to be anything but myself

Don’t tell me I’m beautiful because I’m passing as something I’m not

Tell me because I am exactly who I am

Whether I like it or not

Let me know that I am beautiful

no matter what