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I dressed up as Marilyn Monroe one Halloween as a teen. The costume had the most ridiculous padding on the butt and chest, it was clearly a silly costume and not any sort of statement. The amount of vitriol I faced was eye opening for me. I’m honestly glad I did it because it showed me how people treat those that make them feel uncomfortable. I thought, “if this is how they treat me on Halloween I can’t imagine what other people go through every day” and this was well before trans people were made the boogeyman of the week.
Guess I deserve to die now? Eat a fuckin dick, Bob.
Yeah, I avoided coming out for years because I didn’t think I could handle cishet people looking at me and laughing, or their insults. It’s still difficult.
I’m really sorry you have do deal with that simply to feel true to yourself.
It’s all good. I’m happier now than I was in the past, which is kind of cool.
A kid wore a dress in high school for Halloween. The exact people you would expect it from, the ones with rapey vibes, couldn't keep their hands off him and end up ripping it off him.
Also, it was the dress of his mother who was in the process of dying of cancer and they all knew that.