I know it's a thought bubble but I imagine her yelling the last panel at full volume and everyone looking like "is that lady... Ok?"

be me, early-ish transition, doing something outside with my roommate me: *lifts shirt to wipe forehead* roommate: JUNE NO YOU CAN'T DO THAT ANYMORE

Honestly can’t relate I’m fair more willing to take my top off now

💗 We've been making some progress. Minneapolis shot down their bulllshit nudity laws in most parks a year or two ago. Still a very, very long way to go. : (

tags: societal oppression (gender-affirming)

This is why wearing sports bras in this weather is essential

Achievement unlocked! 😁

just cover your body in a block to protect your body from the son

here in ontario youre good to go!

I remember when the law changed & for a little while you would actually see topless women out & about, but now not so much. More evidence that society peaked in the 90s lol

back when my partner was breast feeding out and about, she *hoped* a business owner would give her a hard time because, since she's a human rights lawyer she relished the opportunity to take someone to the HRTO and score an easy win

she had a whole fantasy around being granted a summary judgement and, as compensation, forcing the café owner or whatever to host an art show about vaginas but alas no one ever gave her a hard time

This is like, the tech support's conundrum. When you want the problem to occur it never happens, when you need it not to, it's constant.

My understanding is New York is similar. It's considered discrimination to make male toplessness legal and female toplessness illegal.

Alex, sometimes I think about how your comics would make such good woodcuts.

Oooh they would!

lol

No love for Albrecht Dürer…

😂😂😂😂😂

At what point do my nipples become illegal?

for me, I feel like my body is stuck in a limbo between moobs and boobs where people sometimes asked me while in school if I was a man or a girl. tbh, even If I anwsered them, I cant give them a straight anwser about it either way im kinda stuck between having to say what gender is on my id or not

Also, holy shit.

Congratulations on being an obscene girl.

Ah yes the two genders: crooked man and obscene girl

Wait no that's the two genders of nasty little fae creatures nvm.

MEEEE!!!!! Not trans, just hot and sweaty

Showing nips in public is the only valid gender test

Bsky moderation be like "sexually explicit"

Dang, I never felt comfortable with my shirt off. Probably meant something, huh?

Amazing.

Congratulations!

Happy "Oh shit right I have boobs now" day to all who celebrate

I like how the detailed joy is both So Real and So Fucked Up.

FTM here, complete opposite side of the spectrum when I took my shirt off in public for the first time post top surgery lol

Gratz And this is an interesting topic because I *believe* toplessness is legal in the UK unless someone can argue you're being deliberately sexual. But my intense anxiety around going topless remains, because it's pretty much a magnet for creeps.

Technically in the UK nudity is legal as long as it doesn't cause actual alarm or disturbance" but you'll still get arrested and there's a bunch of other stuff they can charge you with like contempt of court en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen...

i ... i wanna reskeet, but ...

real

Fuck yeah Alex you go girl!!

Don't scare the horses ma'am

Hooray for obscene torsos!

My torso is obscene as well, but for other reasons

hey alex hausofdecline can i use the third panel as my profile picture on some Websites

Nah bc how are a pair of C cups too graphic but a pair of hairy ass moobs drooping down to mid torso is absolutely fine

In fairness, I do consider my hairy-ass man boobs to be kind of obscene. I would not subject people on the street to my nude torso. My dad, on the other hand, loves displaying his grey-haired chest to the world and does so at every opportunity.

Not to diss the hairy ass moobs though. It's just stupid how one is accepted and the other isn't. IMO, as long as people wear pants, it's all fair game

tbf nipples/booba on men are more vestigial and (typically) don't really do anything but yea I get your point

You're right, my boobs need to get a job

🫡

So true

it's legal in canada! you can free the titty!

And thats another reason to go to Canada!

And in seattle!

Yes... We have acquired the Obscene Torso... The Profane Chest!!

so happy for you haus

Literally a crime not to show ppl my boobs SMH

Some losses are victories

I am a dude but tbh taking off my shirt in public would probably also be obscene

No it wouldn't

There's an argument to be made that few people want to look at that sure, but in a lot of places very rarely would anybody stop you or mention it or harangue you about it either. Unfortunately most women don't have that same luxury.

Yeah, I was just trying to be silly

The R. Crumb is strong with this one.

Gender affirming heat syncope

How. How are your faces continually getting better with each new strip

YA ta ta taaa, taaa taaa TAT-tadaaaaa! *"LEVEL UP!" flashing on screen*

i remember when twitch banned anyone who dared show "female-presenting nipples" they did not attempt to define #freethenipple

That moment when your nipples become female-presenting

You should submit this to the New Yorker

this is like how i just dont wear a bra at work just to see how long it will take for one of my coworkers to admit they think i should be ashamed of my body, meaning they do see me as a woman 🧠🧐

If it makes you feel better, that wouldn't work on me. Far as I'm concerned men and women should be able to wear (or not wear) whatever tf they want and it's none of my business. And seeing as I'm enby myself it'd be insanely hypocritical if cis vs. trans was where I drew a personal line.

congratulations its got to be cool feeling i imagine

I was just telling a friend about this feeling the other day. It’s like a weird form of cognitive dissonance mixed with emotional resonance.

I have no idea if I'm allowed anymore lol

Like definitely wouldn't be for a while but like. Do other gender cues overrule that