traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns
Welcome to /c/traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns, an anti-capitalist meme community for transgender and gender diverse people.
-
Please follow the Hexbear Code of Conduct
-
Selfies are not permitted for the personal safety of users.
-
No personal identifying information may be posted or commented.
-
Stay on topic (trans/gender stuff).
-
Bring a trans friend!
-
Any image post that gets 200 upvotes with "banner" or "rule 6" in the title becomes the new banner.
-
Posts about dysphoria/trauma/transphobia should be NSFW tagged for community health purposes.
-
When made outside of NSFW tagged posts, comments about dysphoria/traumatic/transphobic material should be spoiler tagged.
-
Arguing in favor of transmedicalism is unacceptable. This is an inclusive and intersectional community.
-
While this is mostly a meme community, we allow most trans related posts as we grow the trans community on the fediverse.
If you need your neopronouns added to the list, please contact the site admins.
Remember to report rulebreaking posts, don't assume someone else has already done it!
Matrix Group Chat:
Suggested Matrix Client: Cinny
https://rentry.co/tracha (Includes rules and invite link)
WEBRINGS:
๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ Transmasculine Pride Ring ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
โฌ ๏ธ Left ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ Be Crime Do Gay Webring ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ Right โก๏ธ
view the rest of the comments
ahhhh alright i think i can understand that. i just don't really know what a place like that looks like yet. i can acknowledge they exist but i'm kinda forced into the spaces where i have to prove that i'm a woman (for now). i'm not entirely comfortable in these spaces either but i need to work, there's only so much family i have, and i have all the same friends from high school. since coming out i'm now painfully aware of every gendered action i do and depending on the reaction of whatever cis person i'm with, sometimes it does feel like i miss a red light and get my gender identity obliterated in front of me
maybe that's just another coping mechanism for me though, maybe i need to find where the traffic lights don't really do shit. i'm hoping when i leave this city (surely that will solve all my issues, right??), there will be enough of a change to find some new social spaces. maybe i'm deviating a bit from the point and making it about myself, i do agree with your take overall.
oh yeah that was a fucking insane take, shit made me go . like yeah sure Maria, trans men just don't have dysphoria i guess ยฏ\(ใ)/ยฏ. i have exactly one trans friend and he's transmasc - while i do fall into little traps where i find things i'm jealous of (he 100% passes, he's never had to worry about voice training, i watched him come out 9 years before i did, etc.), that just disregards everything else that he's had to go through to get here. like i got to miss out on all the high school bullying shit and he certainly did not
yeah that tracks lol. i find it funny that every few chapters "she finally gets it!", before realising she still knows about as much as before. bit hypocritical of me to point out, i know i do the same shit
It is cool honestly, I mean I worked too until I got fired (blue collar job) and I still have my family around Idk. I also had my friends from highschool for a while but most of em were queer anyway.
Okay, this is going to sound like I'm taking the piss or asking loaded questions, but I am genuinely sincerely wanting to know: what are some examples of gendered actions like this, and more importantly almost, what do the red lights look like? The most I can possibly draw is, I could sorta tell when one of the dudes at work was trying to treat me like One of the Boys, but for one fuck em, for two it was very easy to disabuse them of this notion, because you cannot have brotalk witth me. But even that I wouldn't describe as a "red light"?
I want to know about people's experiences so dw :3 and yeah maybe, I mean I know I find being around my family constraining because they can't relate to me anymore and only see the fifteen year old boy I was. It does feel freeing to get away from shit like that โจ
Yyyyyyeah, which is already fuckin stupid on its own, like waow great observation, truly it's so "easy" for our transmasc comrades... When you start to draw the lines back to subversivism, and if you're cursed you start thinking about Baeddelism and yeah this is insufferable cringe. I mean it's only a couple of degrees removed from what you hear on certain imageboards...
Man this is fuckin awful, if you are a transmasc user and reading this, I'm sorry
I think, when Maria isn't doing ideologically scuffed classification of various genders, this is part of her appeal. She's even aware to an extent that her disaffected monologue is often keeping her from moving past things and get better. We love our bitter, sarcastic garbage lady because she reflects our failings in a halfway loveable manner, I think
happy to share! there's still people very close to me that just can't get past me not being a man and that's actually easier to disregard. like i'm clearly fucking not, how did you not see how shit of a job i was doing pretending to be one? but i've done this big thing, i've asserted that i'm a woman, and now i carry all these expectations of being a woman that i've only had 6 months to learn about.
when i found out i was autistic i became hyperaware of all the masking i was doing to pretend to be NT. when i found out i was trans i thought the same thing about pretending to be a man. but now that i'm out as trans, i've fallen right into another fucking framework that i have to conform to
specific examples. cw dysphoria, brainworms
best not to readahh that's for sure, it's a nice reminder that i don't have to be perfect. i know i've had lots of fuckups and i know i will continue doing so. thanks for that Maria ___
This comment is a lot all at once let's have a look... I swear I won't be mean.
You don't, though? You can always just not. Autistic cis women have been very pointedly not conforming that way for at least a while, and while yes it's not exactly the same, you really can just wear like, sweatpants and a hoodie, if you want. I do! There actually aren't rules, I promise. It gets easier, I think, as you go on and get more comfortable with your gender.
oh, brainworms
Sorry, is there a specific way women have to slouch their shoulders? I guess I've been cheating by not doing that and still getting gendered right... Plus, who actually pays attention to anyone's hip movement... I would say that shit's cisnormative but it isn't even,I can GUARANTEE YOU a decent percent of cis women do not meet whatever parameters you have set here. It all smells too much of "etiquette classes", fucking finishing schools set up by the bourgeoisie to uphold patriarchal norms... Shit, see CIS WOMEN need fucking CLASSES to learn this shit, even! It isn't real, it was made up BY A GUY
With regard to making yourself small, eh y'know, is femme only when someone is a certain definition of small? I'm not sure how much it helps though honestly... The outfit 'rules' though, that's not a real thing for anybody. I bet most people do not bother looking decent to go get groceries, y'know...
I promise you do, though. Anecdotally speaking I had worse results (in terms of misgendering) when I was deliberately presenting very femme all the time, Idk what that says about anything. But disregarding that you don't owe anyone a performance in exchange for basic respect, I'm just not sure it actually helps 100% of the time. I dunno, you could always start really small, like if you wanna wear the same outfit two in a row, you could? Go out with less or even no makeup, just do these once or twice as an experiment, see how it goes? I sort of took it slow too, I mean there was probably five or six years between the last time I went out fully dressed up as a matter of course, and the first time I went out in sweatpants and a hoodie, without doing my hair. You don't have to go full burn-your-bra right away, it's about being comfortable
Two things: One, you won't ever figure out what your "tell" was, first because it doesn't exist but also because whether or not anyone passes as a gender to someone else is an entirely subjective matter that has many factors, that amount to their perception of a person. Two, though, I'm not really sure all or any of the examples you cite are passing matters. Someone who's gonna be shit like that is just a transphobe, really it wouldn't matter if you were perfectively cisnormatively passing at all times. The second they know you're trans, that shit will come out. Trying to mold your appearance and presentation to the whims and perceptions of transphobes does not seem that cash money, and also they should die.
I don't know how much it even bears thinking about. Obviously getting treated differently by transphobe fucks like that is deeply unpleasant, but the problem is not with you, it's with them! and also they should die, violently. Knowing someone is trans (however that perception has been arrived at) should not change your treatment of them like this.
Yeah this is pretty much the core appeal of Nevada, I think. Maria as a character rules so much, even though she's sincerely shitty in many of her takes, the portrayal of her as a deeply flawed trans person absolutely rocks. Ah, my smelly beloved...
thank you, you were very kind (sorry it kind of spilled out all at once, i blame caffeine?). i'll try to take on your advice, i know you're right on every point - i just need to internalise it.
spoiler
yeahhhhh fuck that guy
i know and definitely fuck transphobes, but i think my anxiety tries to assume everyone thinks like one. they were shit examples too, my mind was traveling somewhere else but i was trying to highlight how much i think about passing. it's so exhausting. i'm sure it well get better with time though, i can hope
genuinely tysm for the chat , i got a lot to think about so i'm gonna go and chew on it
Oh no need to apologise, I didn't mean to imply it was "too much" or anything, good reply tbqh. And yeah the internalisation is the hard part :nyoro~:
spoiler
That guy deserves to be on the wall or something, there are a lot of probably-already-dead guys who have a LOT to answer for
Especially with autism, it's way too much to be thinking about all at once. Social cues and whatever is enough, no more weird incomprehensible garbage please! I mean, for sure some people do think like transphobes (read: are transphobes) that way, but they're not even remotely worth worrying about, fuck em tbh.
You're welcome and fuck yeah, !!!!! Lfg