Trans
General trans community.
Rules:
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Follow all blahaj.zone rules
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All posts must be trans-related. Other queer-related posts go to c/lgbtq.
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Don't post negative, depressing news articles about trans issues unless there is a call to action or a way to help.
Resources:
Best resource: https://github.com/cvyl/awesome-transgender Site with links to resources for just about anything.
Trevor Project: crisis mental health services for LGBTQ people, lots of helpful information and resources: https://www.thetrevorproject.org/
The Gender Dysphoria Bible: useful info on various aspects of gender dysphoria: https://genderdysphoria.fyi/en
StainedGlassWoman: Various useful essays on trans topics: https://stainedglasswoman.substack.com/
Trans resources: https://trans-resources.info/
[USA] Resources for trans people in the South: https://southernequality.org/resources/transinthesouth/#provider-map
[USA] Report discrimination: https://action.aclu.org/legal-intake/report-lgbtqhiv-discrimination
[USA] Keep track on trans legislation and news: https://www.erininthemorning.com/
[GERMANY] Bundesverband Trans: Find medical trans resources: https://www.bundesverband-trans.de/publikationen/leitfaden-fuer-behandlungssuchende/
[GERMANY] Trans DB: Insurance information (may be outdated): https://transdb.de/
[GERMANY] Deutsche Gesellschaft für Transidentität und Intersexualität: They have contact information for their advice centers and some general information for trans and intersex people. They also do activism: dgti.org
*this is a work in progress, and these resources are courtesy of users like you! if you have a resource that helped you out in your trans journey, comment below in the pinned post and I'll add here to pass it on
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I was an ally™️ before I transitioned so already fairly invested and educated on the trans community, I spent a lot of my time advocating for us. So I knew that what I felt was gender euphoria when one day I saw a boys vs girls meme and imagined myself as a woman in a way I guess I never had before. It was pretty wild because I knew enough about the trans community to pretty accurately appreciate how much the trajectory of my life had changed in that moment.
It made a lot of things line up as well. One time I told an old therapist that the discomfort I had with my body felt a lot like what trans people described as gender dysphoria but "I didn't want to appropriate their experiences" 🤦♀️. I don't know how I didn't put two and two together there, but my therapist must have been asleep at the wheel jfc. I also remembered being a kid and reading Calvin and Hobbes and thinking I'd set their transmogrifier to girl and be a girl and getting a fuzzy feeling from that. Few other things too.
I relate to the aware of trans people but never applying it to myself, its strange how that happens ^^ Tbf some therapists are just uneducated on the topic so im surprised she missed that. Glad you figured it out for yourself after all!
Gosh this is so relatable. I wrote my own thoughts up in another comment but yeah, same as you.