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[GERMANY] Trans DB: Insurance information (may be outdated): https://transdb.de/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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... realizing you're trans at 15 - 16 through euphoria is not an usual path at all, and I think the vast majority of trans people don't recognize their dysphoria is dysphoria until much later, so just so you know, you are in the majority (not unusual at all)
Thanks for the insight, you hear a lot about people always being tomboys or masculine and rejecting femininity which never was the case for me (i was winning at gender roles) so it feels rarer than it probably is ^^
Oh yeah, that's not super rare. On the transfem side there's the denial beard phenomenon. And for y'all guys it's somewhat common to have had a period of heavy femininity before acceptance. Basically doing the gender roles really hard because that's what you're supposed to (and maybe then you'll actually want it if you do it right)
it's just as common (esp. in a transphobic social context) to lean hard into practicing your assigned gender as well as you can - e.g. some trans women will go into the military to "toughen up", or get really buff and into body building because they feel something is wrong with their body but they don't really understand (or have repressed) it's a gender issue.
but yeah, I know a trans guy who is currently repressing, but is a gay man and is very effeminate (which ... makes his gender presentation complicated, esp. because he's hurt when people see him as a girl, but he hasn't socially or medically transitioned, and he always has sparkly girly earrings and nail polish on, etc.).
but yeah, there is a wide variety of trans experiences - more than the mainstream narrative usually betrays (which is usually like "they knew as soon as they could talk and they immediately refused their assigned sex" kind of thing - which, maybe I would have done that too, if I hadn't been threatened with physical violence for even doing gentle gender exploration as a young child that is common even among cis children - my dad was unusually sensitive and controlling about my gender, and I can only speculate as to why).