It's been a very big week but I'm here for it
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A very straight-looking guy came up to me at the club and said "I'm bisexual and you're...I don't know what I'm saying can I give you a hug?" Feel like I am starting to read some time of way now...
Trying to get letters for bottom surgery, should i present really femme when i see the psychiatrist??
The local cafe is really trans friendly and has cool people chilling there regularly. It just makes me happy that I've found my hang now.
I don't think the way I look and have looked all my life is that bad or unattractive, but like, I look in a mirror and just don't recongise myself. My image of myself in my head is so far divorced from my actual appearance
after a while, anti-treat discourse is just treat discourse for cynical contrarians
Shit almost forgot to post.
I just wish I could be more flamboyant and campy, living in the Bible Belt south there's not a lot I can get away with.
I got the result of my first blood tests since starting HRT and my testosterone levels were 1.2 nmol/L, things are happening. Really happy to see monotherapy is working as intended and I don't need to worry about an anti-androgen.
Lately I've had this thought like, you only desire (or allow yourself to desire) the things you believe you could reasonably get. Like I used to think I was a pretty frugal person that didn't like to buy a bunch of junk, but when I actually had disposable income I found I did have a lot of frivolous things I wanted to buy. Like I was just saying I didn't like frivolous things as cope when I couldn't have them. I think my gender stuff is like that, I think because I wouldn't ever afford all the surgery and medications and doctors, not to mention dealing with the anxiety and social aspects of it, I just don't allow myself to feel that way and suppress it. I just think like, who would I even be doing it for, maybe that's just something you should accept and be okay with. Like if I, as a man, was losing my hair to male pattern baldness I feel like the response most people would give is "why are you taking drugs to change something like that, why not just accept it?" or "you know plugs don't even look that good, it's just facsimile hair, you'll waste your money and it won't feel the same and people will be able to tell the difference". Then I think like, even if I had been born one way I'd still just be trans in the other direction, like I just wouldn't comfortable in any body. If the tech was there to put your brain in a computer and leave your body behind I'd be one of those people.
Writing selfinsert fic about myself and bayonetta except she teaches me how to Tetsuzanko in a totally platonic manner so I can chuck people through plate glass windows whenever I want
that's wholesome
This week I have my first appointment with an Endocrinologist, was apparently very lucky lwith my region and timing, since just a year ago one required like a b}nch of papers from psychologists for hormone treatment.
Also feeling so-so, since I am in an environement where I am constantly (mis)gendered. I feel like I am backsliding into thinking I am a guy, and it is not a good feeling. But it's only for two more days.
I want to meet more local trans people, but the last attempt did not go so well. One said we had to keep out refugees because the boat is full, another was extremly sectarian, called me a tankie and a fgnocide denier and everything (over the take that the USSR was actually socialist and should be learnt from) which felt pretty bad.
Also another local trans group has split intp two(men and women) for some reason noone can explain to me.
I can maybe get access to some different regional groups, and look if they are less sectarian. I know a trans guy who is active with the local trots, maybe a possible adress.
My mom just walked into my room, made me wear a dress she was making, then left, Idk what this means
finally feeling a bit better about doing my injections. really struggled at first
I still find it a bit scary, I always take a couple really deep breaths before I take the injection to make sure I'm calm.
Iβm giving up on the idea of transitioning again.
Yeah, it feels like it's impossible to make it in this world right now. However, sacrificing that piece of yourself for an easier life makes for a more depressing life. The one of the things that keeps me from using fent again and just sleeping through everything is because gender euphoria is a far more friendly dragon to chase than drugs. When I feel like a pretty girl, I don't feel the need to be high all the time. Working towards that is the only resolve.'
I don't mean to get overly presumptuous here, but I've seen many of your posts and have walked in many of the same paths. If you truly believe that you are trans in your heart of hearts, living an image that isn't congruent with that is dissociation of the self that leads to people like us needing a little something else to keep existing. Then eventually that something else takes over and ruins the few good things that we've managed to keep in our lives.
I don't know what exactly has happened, but I'm worried for you. If you need to go into hiding for safety, I'm not judging that, I don't want to make you feel like you're doing anything wrong if you're just doing what you have to do to be safe. However, I think you should really consider the mental health impact of giving up any hope on transitioning. This isn't just giving up on transitioning from what I've seen in your posts, giving up this hope sounds like you're giving up all hope for your own life. We'd really miss you if you just stopped posting one day. We'd miss you if you gave up your entire self to the selfish and narrow minded whims of others. Like I said, if it's a safety thing, I sincerely apologize and hope you're able to stay safe. But unless this is just a reality you absolutely have to accept or die, the more you think about never transitioning, the more you bottle up your feelings of gender dysphoria, the less stable you'll be.
I had been taking HRT for two years when I started using meth, and then gave upβidk why, I just lost one of my meds and said βFuck, why bother.β
I started doing DIY in the spring/summer of 2022, on and off, then made it official tail end of that year. Then I ran out of refills and just didnβt care.
I recently stopped calling myself a trans woman because it feels like a joke. I still wanted to do gender-affirming stuff though. But itβs hard for me to look in the mirror anymore and not see an ugly cis man. I am always going to wear that Mark of Cain. I have never fit in as femme; the fact that I have never lived a day of my life βas a woman,β made even worse by my being attracted to women, basically being a straight cis man in all but name, has always made me an outcast. I canβt even have a healthy friendship with non-men.
Nobody, not even the person who used to my friend, has ever seen me as female and itβs absurd to expect anything else. I donβt belong at all.
going to be getting on a plane to visit my partner in like two weeks
satoshi kon movies ranked by how Gender they are
paprika > tokyo godfathers > perfect blue > millennium actress
weirdly i like his movies more the less gender there is
I found a voice therapy class for free over zoom, its nights, so hopefully I'm able to skip out on work to try it out. Didn't know they had things like that available for free, and with voice I need all the help I can get.
I don't have it in me to play touhou in a major way but watching someone else go for subterranean animism 1cc is thrilling. game's fucked!
i haven't done that one yet, i keep taking month long breaks between tries at mountain of faith and losing all my muscle memory