Trans
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[GERMANY] Trans DB: Insurance information (may be outdated): https://transdb.de/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 dunno how trans folk feel or think about it, and it's pretty obvious how jerks would react to it. But from an outside perspective, I think most allies are going to either ask, or assume gender neutrality without a specific preference, or perhaps fluidity. Maybe a newer ally is going to be a confused and ask what it means, but that's a good thing, isn't it?
In my experience, folks that list any/all tend to be not trans, and fall under one of the non binary self labels.
That last part was really confusing for a second until I remembered that not everyone thinks of transgender as an umbrella term that includes nonbinary.
Yeah, tbh, offline I don't know anyone that does. It's one of those things where non binary, gender fluid, and similar self labels function differently on a social level, so they get lumped as a separate grouping. I've seen/heard it explained that trans as a grouping leans so heavily into the binary via the distinct needs of medical transition that (despite there being overlap) it "feels" different.
I end up following the conventions of people I know irl as the default because that's where I use the terminology the most, so those speech patterns get etched in.
I only really started addressing where I fit in the spectrum of things late in life. And something that a lot of people on the non-binary sub on Reddit said was that non-binary is trans because to be trans doesn't mean 'has transitioned', it means that you don't identify with your assigned gender at birth. Simply put, transgender means not cisgender.
But there also seems to be a general understanding that not everyone sees it the same way or has come to the same conclusions. Something I've found since I started really addressing some things, is that online at least, nb people seem to be pretty lax and open minded as far as labels and definitions. Probably because a lot are still actively in the process of questioning and self discovery themselves. If there's even a finish line for self discovery in the first place.