Trans
General trans community.
Rules:
-
Follow all blahaj.zone rules
-
All posts must be trans-related. Other queer-related posts go to c/lgbtq.
-
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[GERMANY] Trans DB: Insurance information (may be outdated): https://transdb.de/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
view the rest of the comments
I think sometimes it's more comfortable being around queer folks because they're at least substantially less likely to say some wild shit and get offended if you so much as blink. With cishet people it takes a while to know that they're not secretly harboring some anti-queer bigotry to spring on you when you're not expecting it. I've definitely met cishets who "tolerate" trans people but actually look down on us and will flip the moment we do anything at all to defend our rights or suggest that we should have rights in the first place. Usually it's "apolitical" people who are actually just lazily conservative, but you never really know until it happens.
With queer people that's unusual enough for it to be notable.
That makes sense, esp. for folks early in transition or who struggle to be seen as their gender. Queer spaces might be the only places that you are seen as you, let alone where you are tolerated and not glared at.
At some point though I started to pass and especially cishet people cluelessly just see me as another straight, cis woman - and while I'm not technically either of those, I am a woman and it is more affirming to me to be seen as a cis woman than as a trans woman. In that context I've started to have a harder time being around queer folks because they're the only ones who notice I'm trans, and it outs me and I get treated differently and I feel degendered and dehumanized by it - instead of being a cis woman I suddenly become a trans woman (a woman*).