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A screenshot of a Tumblr post from a user named demilypyro. The text of the post reads: “y’know some years ago I saw a conservative post something like ‘transitioning is worshipping yourself when you should be worshipping god’ and I was like hell yeah. hell yeah that’s awesome. I’m turning myself into someone worthy of worship and spiting god at the same time. this rules”.
Oh many more people than trans people undergo changes, and I think it’s why I’m also drawn to tattoos, piercings, and body mods, as various ways of claiming agency of ourselves. I think learning, like you said, is a very neat example of that. There are many people that choose to live in ignorance of things and thus stagnate on their understanding of the world as a whole. Choosing to engage fully with the learning process of anything also feels the same kind of magic. Transitioning has also included a ton of learning, so I think it’s interesting linking those things.
Just as change is inevitable so is our ability to learn and adapt to that change.