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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[GERMANY] Trans DB: Insurance information (may be outdated): https://transdb.de/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'm agender.
For me I separate gender into three components.
For #1, I never have felt an inherent gender and identify as agender.
For #2, I have always felt like my penis was not part of me or not supposed to be there and have always felt an ache in the perineum where I should be able to insert something. This lead me to wanting bottom surgery. And eventually I realized that breasts felt right.
For #3, I mostly got tired of how boring it is to appear male as well as the clothes. And I don't like the emotional repression involved in toxic masculinity. And finally, it is difficult to have parts of a woman and not appear as one due to the bathroom bills and other dangerous situations. So I present feminine.
Gender has many aspects, you dont have to force all of those aspects to the same extreme or the other.
@irotsoma @quietlavender Huh, interesting. That seems pretty close to what I'm experiencing for myself. I don't consider myself agender, but I feel pretty ambivalent towards gender. I might as well be a genderless entity for all I care. Gender presentation is a thing that I struggle with a lot, be it being masculine or being feminine, but your reasons for presenting feminine makes sense to me and I can see that for myself too. And yeah, physically I want to be a woman. It just feels more right. So, thanks for your post I guess. It kind of helped me think about my relationship to my gender and eased some of my insecurities I've had over it.
TLDR Gender is hard.
Glad it's helpful. Gender is complex despite the propaganda from the far right trying to demonize gender-non-compliant people. Deconstructing things into their base components and analyzing them separately helps me a lot.