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[–] MoonElf@hexbear.net 26 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (9 children)

y'all ya girl made it and it's like a dream, i'm dating the cute girl from my old gym 😍

cw: relationship sad and super happy stuff

Just over a year ago my egg cracked. The biggest factors at the time included you beautiful folks, especially EstraDoll who was very vocal about things and I was so envious of her. I watched that TV glow movie and as an older person it really hit me in the gut. There was also this beautiful trans girl at my gym who worked the front desk and seeing her manager treating her totally normal and respectfully made an impact she was the first trans woman I had knowingly interacted with directly and it felt like okay my local community was maybe accepting. I also (respectfully, i'm not a gym creep) saw her doing her lifting routine because she's a trainer there and she was hot! It was just a week or so later that my egg cracked thunderously while listening to a chappell roan song.

I finally realized after a year of being touch starved my wife is never going to love me the way I need so i got on those apps. Well you will not believe this but now 14 or so months since I last saw the gym girl I matched with her on taimi! I assumed she made a mistake until she started flirting! she is ND, a leftist, has multiple tattoos from my favorite video game, loves rust too and she thinks i'm pretty. So maybe she needs new glasses but i'm not going to say anything.

We went to an anarchist bookstore and I showed her Parenti. We took tacos home to her husband and his boyfriend who were also trans and we all hung out and watched movies and there was much snuggling. She was super respectful of my boundaries and asked for consent every time she pushed em. She treats me how I have wanted to be treated my entire life. And she lives down the street! There were a lot of uhaul lesbian jokes because I'm in the polycule now πŸ˜‚

Y'all i truly wonder if i just died and this is all a dream. i'm almost 50! I really am so glad I didn't give up.

I really want you all to know that it is never ever ever too late. Don't fucking ever give up on your dreams hang on to what you want relentlessly. Even if it takes decades it's worth it. It's never too late to transition. or find love that fits you. It took many decades and a lot of sadness before I got here but it was worth it. I love you all so much and i'm so grateful for the support from all of you that gave me the courage to be me. Especially you EstraDoll :)

😭 i really treasure this place so much

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[–] yewler@hexbear.net 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

anti diy shit and unsupportive familyMy gf has family who are worried that she will one day od on fent from spiked diy hrt and I swear to god fentanyl spiked estradiol has got to be one of the most unintentionally hilarious concepts I have ever heard.

I think if anyone suggested that to me I would simply not find within me the ability to hold back a laugh in their face.

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[–] 0x2640@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago

rant time :3

can people stop saying "protect trans youth" just to turn around and do everything in their power to exclude trans youth? trans youth have been having it worse and worse because there exists literally no community for trans youth, online or offline. treating youth like less than human and isolating them just leads to trauma, anxiety, depression, and normalizes oppression. its the part of the reason why things are so bad today. stop playing into a conservative narrative you KNOW is bullshit. when y'all get old and become unsuit for activism, there's a chance that there won't be anyone to replace you, because no one supported the next generation of queer people. how do you ever hope to band together if you actively exclude the new generation? if the very groups that they belong in don't actually want them until they're "old enough"? we need to remember that if we don't support the next generation, we're the ones to be erased from history, because the next gen are the people to hold the torch.

[–] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It is such a weird feeling to have had someone you were like two halves of a whole with and then go back to being single. Particularly in that very delicate, growing up time between like 18 to 30. So much of me was part of someone else, and visa versa. I wonder if 7 of 9 felt like this when she was cut off from the hive mind lol

[–] MoonElf@hexbear.net 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

there's a thing I don't know the name of but when you are with someone a lot like for years you each start to offload memory functions onto the other automatically. It was over a decade ago that i read about this but it was studied with widows iirc and basically they all felt like a portion of their mind was missing because they had gotten so used to offloading certain specific tasks to their partner.

Like not bothering to know certain things because they knew with 100% certainty the other partner knew them.

I'm sorry to hear you're having to go through any such loss.

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[–] 0x2640@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

apparently itchio just shadow banned all "adult" content

this is truly the worst timeline doggirl-gloom

[–] peanutbuttercupola@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That is not great, especially since Republicans have been pushing the idea that being trans or gay is inherently pornographic.

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[–] Wmill@hexbear.net 20 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

diff shade of pink, I like it but nothing from my outfit matches

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I regret to report the lesbian yearning continues to intensify crush

[–] 0x2640@hexbear.net 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Wmill@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Libraries are safe spaces where I can sit as queerly as I want catgirl-smug not like chuds come in to read or anything

[–] segfault11@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

meow-shining it's like how every fighting game has a mode where you can practice moves and combos without being attacked, but for being queer in public lol

[–] Wmill@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago

this it legit feels so nice to exist in public all relaxed, the staff is friendly and a lot of the time I think queer themselves at least that's the vibe I pick up most of the time.

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 18 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I'm alive but it certainly feels like death

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[–] nemmybun@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
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[–] segfault11@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I'd say yes, but probably not in the way they're thinking

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[–] 0x2640@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

got new booootsss

lookin pretty good in them if we do say so ourselves doggirl-smug

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[–] RION@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It was 6 months on HRT this weekend. I figured I'd be happier but my job situation is kinda wack currently and dating apps have not been going good... wahoo

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[–] LeylaLove@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago

Been on hormones a few weeks now and I just feel so much better emotionally! My skin is already softer and it makes me happy

[–] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

i keep telling myself that they're not into me. that they don't see me as anything other than a friend. that this isn't a date and that i shouldn't get my hopes up. idk how much of this is just defense mechanism but... ugh. it's never worked out romantically for me and i've fucking tried more times than I can count

getting my hopes up feels nice but then i immediately get scared and press it back down again. saying this will fail and we'll only just be friends keeps me safe and dead inside. saying that this will go well and get you a partner just feels like football-lucy football-charlie-brown

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[–] 0x2640@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago (6 children)
[–] segfault11@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago (4 children)

i think i’m transitioning into a child instead of a woman, one tsa guy asked if I was 18, and another asked if I was 13 🫠

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[–] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

cheems i'm bigender which means i'm non binary

swole-doge i'm bigender which means i'm more binary than you, nerd

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[–] Alisu@hexbear.net 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I love talking to the kind trans people on my phone. It's nice.

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[–] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 15 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Feeling gross and weird today

creature

But I'm going to ballgame tonight so that'll hopefully be good field-baseball

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[–] Wmill@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Sometimes it feels a lot of the comments my mom makes about my appearance have more what she thinks than not, she tends to frame it as "what will others say" like I don't deny I do get it. Every job interview I go to I get rid of my polish any fun eyeliner I was feeling and mute myself to no real avail anyway since no one's hiring. I love her dearly still just find it tiring. Hell she even justifies it to her coworkers my appearance, I'm swole and got long curly dark hair and she got asked why I'm looking like Samson. Her go to respose is that I'm gonna donate to kids with cancer, they shut up afterwards.

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[–] DerEwigeAtheist@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago

I'm meeting with some other trans women for make-up practice this weekend. Quitting Germany really was the best decision. Kinda interesting how I mostly hang out with the other diy girlies. The ones with the diagnoses and endos and stuff just are not as interested.(and also tend to be libs, with some unpleasant opinions)

[–] segfault11@hexbear.net 14 points 2 weeks ago

pray for me πŸ˜”

[–] segfault11@hexbear.net 14 points 2 weeks ago

how it feels to airdrop logic pro from a macbook in an apple store to your phone and get it to run on your computer with xattr and chmod

[–] Disaster_of_Passion@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

depressowish I could stop existing. not in like a sui way, but just disappear for a little while. lay down and evaporate into mist, stop experiencing things for a couple days, a week, a month. even just a little bit of rest would be so nice. I'm so tired.

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[–] kristina@hexbear.net 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Having a bit of a health issue just posting so that if I die I'll be known for posting on the commie bear site as my final act

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[–] Tommasi@hexbear.net 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

therapy stuff, possibly a harmful take idkThe more i learn about the history of psychiatry as a field, particularly how it relates to queer people, the more skeptical I become of the whole thing as any sort of helpful tool, especially with how "you need therapy" has become one of the default answers to anyone struggling.

I didn't have bad experiences with therapy, it was just sorta underwhelming for me, helpful in some minor ways, but it's kinda hard to trust the field at all when it carries so much homophobic, racist, mysogynist and anti-trans baggage.

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[–] lilypad@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago

::: spoiler i dislike all the talk of community in my irl circles. Shit doesnt exist.

I would like to never be perceived again... I just... I do not want to ever do a social thing ever again. Im so tired of feeling completely alone and isolated even when surrounded by so-called community. There is no queer community, no trans community. Theres just a bunch of somewhat-overlapping social groups. And ya girl is not good at integrating/being part of them. Like, the message is clear: people do not want to talk to me. I dont understand why, and i try to be social, but god, i had two utter failures of social situations in as many days, and the common denomenator is me. Im not supposed to have friends or be included in social groups...

[–] yewler@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just smoked a pack of fentstradiol

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[–] Alisu@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

5h of sleep is not okay. My eepy princess ass can't deal with this. And today I gotta go to the office

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[–] semioticbreakdown@hexbear.net 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

realized I can listen to myself talk for voice training in real-time by hooking up my microphone directly to the output in qjackctl. I actually sound ok to myself a lot of time! but I am straining my voice a bit so i need to relax more. I also need to practice projecting my voice and raising volume without dropping the femme aspects... while also not immediately dropping my register when I start talking to real people for lack of confidence.

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[–] Babs@hexbear.net 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Trans athlete ban just hit USA Fencing. Leadership didn't want it, membership didn't want it, but the executive order threatened their NGB status.

Shit sucks. The chairman gave a good shot at defending us at the doge show trial, but idk what could be done here. If they didn't comply, we might end up with a governing body that actually hates trans people, rather than one that tried but failed to include us.

[–] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Thus conceding the integrity of the sport by complying with baseless political bans :^)

If they didn't comply, we might end up with a governing body that actually hates trans people, rather than one that tried but failed to include us.

How does that work? The government can just ban sports orgs altogether?

Edit:

USAβ€―Fencing supports fencing for all. In Julyβ€―2025, the U.S. Olympicβ€―&β€―Paralympic Committee (USOPC), through its updated Athlete Safety Policy, directed every National Governing Body to align athlete‑eligibility policies with a federal executive order.

I see! So yes, it's all about access to the Olympics. Much more important than "integrity of sport" or "inclusivity". This is why I support the total annihilation of professional sport.

[–] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Idk if this is shitty of me but I always think about how people would react if it was a race ban instead. Both the people who would still say "well it's more important the majority get to play then no one" and the people who would suddenly change their mind. Would people grimace and say, well, I guess it was that or the sport not existing?

People, cis and trans, are far too accepting of our discrimination.

[–] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I actually think it's imperative to make such comparisons

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[–] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 13 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I want it so much- and so worried I won't find someone.

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[–] yewler@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Most of the time when people call me a woman it feels comfortable, but there's one particular guy that it just kind of... Doesn't feel right when he does it. I don't know if he's just trying too hard to be supportive or what it is but when he calls me a woman it makes me feel uncomfortable. I genuinely cannot tell you why.

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[–] Carcharodonna@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

dysphoriaWhy do I simultaneously worry about never being able to fit perfectly into a binary gender ideal, while at the same time idolizing gender-blurring in others? I find androgyny in people so incredibly appealing and attractive. When I think about my voice, frame, etc. never being fem enough, however, it bothers me a little. Self-love and self-acceptance is hard.

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