Can lift 60 lbs

Can not lift 60 lbs

Can lift 60 lbs, but won’t

I worked in a factory for a bit. HR designated people as “heavies” or not which meant they could lift 50 pounds. No test or medical exam was done to create this distinction. All men were marked heavies and all women weren’t. It was a way for them to discriminate job roles based on gender without saying it.

me last weekend when this trans girl I know on the internet asked me to help her move arcade games. she was like “LIFT!” and i was like “girl I’m trying you should have called someone else 😭”

we did move the games tho 💪

Butch / Femme

Tough Guy / Femboy

So my body isn’t just permanently injured from being pressured into lifting things at work that I couldn’t lift… I was being misgendered, too??

I’m the strong one, I’m not nervous
I’m as tough as the crust of the Earth is
I move mountains, I move churches
And I glow, 'cause I know what my worth is

ive never really seen the “can carry items” as a gender thing- or even a clothing thing… peeps in the family are all willing to help and stuff, no matter how heavy ~

People ask me to lift heavy stuff regardless of how I’m dressed.