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ok serious topic now, i came to my parents as bi and... i dont know what i did expect of this event but i'm completely devastated by how my parents reacted only thinking about how other people would react and not caring for how i actually feel.
so right now im listening to ts' "soon you'll get better" in repeat and wishing for a happy ending for my own story

to everyone who has known of it since ever and supported me through it, thank you and i love u all

This has come and gone, and I ended up forgetting to post about it here... anyway, 2 years! And I did get better, thank you Taylor Swift.
Life's weird; work's weird; my relationships are weird too. But I'm happier than I've ever been for these past two years, and I wish the younger me could have had this sense of self and happiness that comes with it. Thank you everyone thats been a part of this journey <3
 
Sort of a follow-up to my last post ig. Talked to some of my friends about it, and they were really accepting of me being bi! Things haven't really changed much for me otherwise, but that's cool with me: I'm not gonna let who I'm attracted to define me, nor will I let people who want to define me by that and that alone bring me down
 
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Here are two simple things you can do right away to make queer folks feel included, safe, and give them comfort knowing that there are thoughtful and accepting people out there.

1) don’t assume that everyone you meet is heterosexual. Unless you know who the person is dating, use “significant order” vs. bf/gf/wife/husband/etc. when such conversations come up.

2) put personal pronouns (e.g., he/him, she/her, etc) in your signature or next to your name.
 
happy bi visibility which was yesterday for like the majority of the world! i told a group of friends that was biromantic one or two weeks ago and i'm comfy sharing with the rest of smogon now that i've made up my mind! both boys and girls are cute what can i say

probably wouldn't have had ability to properly think about stuff and get help with deciding without my friends so ily all
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Hi
So i never post here but ive struggled w/ my sexuality for a while mostly out of A) ignorance, 2) reluctance to do research, iii) not engaging with the community beyond a surface level like ever. Was mostly just never able to find a term that i felt i really could identify with.

But the other day i finally got around to researching what asexuality actually is and i dont think anything's clicked faster for me in my life.

So yeah i guess im ace. oh and girls are pretty cool i guess....

idk how to end one of these so uwu
 
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I've got a weird LGBT situation here. I was born male but since I was born feel like I should have been born a girl, at least biologically. However, my personality contains traits of both genders (around 87.5% female and 12.5% male) yet I have no attractions to any other person.
However, my family is EXTREMELY anti-lgbt. My whole family dislikes me for being LGBT and I am always the target of discrimination in them. They also sheltered me from this being a thing so I felt completely alone until 5th grade when I learned a little more about the community.
Thank you for hearing me out. I know this is a bit personal even for this thread but I have felt very unacceptable and hated for my differences all my life.
 
I have been with this man for quite some time, and I ended up falling in love with him. It was beautiful, sad, and I always knew it'd be tragic too. And well, here we are: we decided to break up this Sunday. We are not mad at each other or anything, we just had different expectations about what we could offer each other, plus we come from different backgrounds and it was hard to accommodate to each other sometimes even though I think we tried our best.

Experiencing this break-up was however much less traumatic than I'd anticipated, and I've found that I actually miss my friend more than I miss the person than I experienced love with. Or maybe it wasn't love at all? Maybe I was afraid of losing everything that related to him than anything else, but I did like to be with him and gave him priority over everyone else that wanted me (or that I wanted too, I guess). It's complicated.

I do miss him, make no mistake. I do carry my own regrets, and I do believe he carries his too. But as much as we wanted to make it work, it just wasn't meant to be. I cried a lot this past Sunday, but now I feel mostly... weird. It's weird that I had to delete all our pictures and messages because I knew I'd come back and keep reading our best (and worst too) moments and wonder what could have happened. It's weird that I've lost my Wild Rift support all of sudden. It's weird that I'll have to explain this to my friends that also considered him as a friend too. It's weird that I ended up crying when facetiming my mother and now I'll have to explain to her why.

But ultimately... it was all worth it. I'm glad I got to experience it, and sure as hell I was happy - but I'll find happiness with someone else too (ugh thank you Taylor Swift). I sometimes wish lgbtq+ relationships were as easy as some of my friends' straight ones, but gays have to make everything more complicated and that is our fate and I've come to accept it (hell, even my therapist thinks so and he's straight as hell).

Anyhow, I just wanted to vent somewhere because listening to Taylor Swift as frequently as I do kinda makes one depressive... at least there's Adele coming too so I can be the wreck that I want to be. It's sad girl autumn, after all. Smogon has always been a safe space where I could explore my sexuality more openly with my friends than I could irl, and it'll always be dear to me long after I retire from this game (which is soon anyway). Thank you :)
 
hi
I'm finally here after just kinda not feeling putting anything here.

I imagine that if you know me (I am also Morytha on PS if you did not know), then you know that I want to be a girl (she/her), name Elizabeth since it's nice to have out there (please only use Morytha on PS unless I decide otherwise!!). I dunno that's about it at the surface.

Want is important an important here, it's hard to see myself as any more.

The thing with me is I both want to be a girl but also don't want it to be too much, as in it would be better than what I am now. There's definitely this desire to not be what I am now and wanting to be a girl. I guess it's like I want to be a girl and at the same time a bit of none, I'm not like particularly attached to anything, but being a girl would be better for me.

Unfortunately, I happen to live in Arkansas, so not much of an option for anyone to more aside from at school (two people know here). I'd talk to them more about it but incredibly shy and scary so time will tell what I do.

I guess that's it for like, the why and the situation. I dunno I'm not the most open with stuff like this so it's probably a rough read, sorry.

ok that's the end of that. look at my nice sticker:

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Yesterday was one year since I came out as transgender.

Being transgender really sucks. Every single day I deal with massive amounts of gender dysphoria, either through seeing girls on my college campus or simply wishing I could have a feminine body. I spend a lot of nights staying up until as late as 5:30 AM begging the world to let me be a pretty girl.

This doesn't even begin to delve into the problems of transphobia. This website, my family, the world -- it comes from everywhere. When I was packing up to go back to school when my break was over my mom adamantly opposed be bringing the perfume I had bought for myself a few months back. Subtle things like that or my dad saying I'd never look good in a dress (and then laughing at me) makes me feel incredibly awful.

And yet, I put up with it all. Being a girl makes me that happy.

Thank you to all my friends who have supported me over the past year; it really means the world to me. Despite the hardships, I have no regrets about following my heart -- it's not about doing what's easy, it's about doing what makes me happy.

To all my LGBTQ+ friends -- stay strong. Trust me, I know it's tough, but please don't let the downsides get in the way of doing what you love. Me, and many others, are always out there supporting you. If you ever want to talk, you can find me on Discord at emma#0404.
 
Yesterday was one year since I came out as transgender.

Being transgender really sucks. Every single day I deal with massive amounts of gender dysphoria, either through seeing girls on my college campus or simply wishing I could have a feminine body. I spend a lot of nights staying up until as late as 5:30 AM begging the world to let me be a pretty girl.

This doesn't even begin to delve into the problems of transphobia. This website, my family, the world -- it comes from everywhere. When I was packing up to go back to school when my break was over my mom adamantly opposed be bringing the perfume I had bought for myself a few months back. Subtle things like that or my dad saying I'd never look good in a dress (and then laughing at me) makes me feel incredibly awful.

And yet, I put up with it all. Being a girl makes me that happy.

Thank you to all my friends who have supported me over the past year; it really means the world to me. Despite the hardships, I have no regrets about following my heart -- it's not about doing what's easy, it's about doing what makes me happy.

To all my LGBTQ+ friends -- stay strong. Trust me, I know it's tough, but please don't let the downsides get in the way of doing what you love. Me, and many others, are always out there supporting you. If you ever want to talk, you can find me on Discord at emma#0404.

Being a girl makes me that happy.
want to put emphasis on "me" as in "you" as long as you yourself are happy that is truly what matters. Being around people who care and can support you in any way possible that's what is truly important. Comparing yourself to others can be a good thing but you are who you are; be happy and proud of what you have accomplished!

p.s. always open to anything :blobnom:
 
Last December, I started anti-androgen monotherapy. Specifically, I started taking cyproterone acetate. This was a big deal. As has been chronicled in various posts here and as many people probably know, I had been living in a bit of a personal hell for over a decade, trying repeatedly to get through to my parents that I was trans and that living life as it was was untenable. Having spent the year working my way through the medical system and having successfully communicated to my mum that enough was enough, I had finally done it: I had, in a way, started HRT.

While I'm no endocrinologist or health specialist, I would like to just point out that taking cyproterone acetate on its own isn't the best idea. As I found out later, it isn't fantastic at suppressing testosterone on its own, especially when taken at reasonable dosages. You need to add estradiol for that. It also made me really tired all the time, which wasn't fun. However, in hindsight, I don't really regret doing this - I was absolutely beside myself at this point after how long I had waited and how much I had gone through to get this far, and doing anything felt better than continuing to do nothing.

However, to start estradiol proper I found myself in a pipeline where I had to get a psychiatrist's tick of approval. This didn't sound so bad at first because I had felt so sure of myself so consistently. Unfortunately, a three month waiting period, where I would put myself through the wringer almost daily questioning myself non-stop and asking myself if I would be seen as 'trans enough' by the psychiatrist, absolutely did my head in. The appointment itself was fine: it was only a one-off and I got my authorisation letter soon after. This all felt very contrived, though; even my doctor said to me something along the lines of 'this might seem unnecessary, but this is just something we have to do', despite the fact that there are informed consent clinics that do not require this step throughout the country. Perhaps three months is not much in the grand scheme of things, considering I waited 40 times that length of time before I could do anything at all. Was having to wait that much extra time for something that ended up being so obvious to the psychiatrist that my appointment ended 10 minutes early really needed, though? Probably not.

Anyway, after that ordeal, I started estradiol in the middle of March. The dosage I started on was 2mg estradiol valerate (EV) per day. On that dosage, I might as well have waited another two months extra for the psychiatrist appointment and then started on 4mg in May, because my estradiol levels were... not very good. Ideally, you want to hit 100-200 pg/mL at trough (the lowest point before your next dose). Meanwhile, I was getting blood tests done near where oral estradiol peaks. Oral estradiol differs a bit from injections in that levels aren't as variable between dosages. At my peak, I was sitting at a lovely 32 pg/mL. This was not very far at all from where my estradiol levels were before I started any form of HRT. This was not ideal, so my dose got increased to 4mg per day. On that dosage of EV, my levels were better but still shit, so I swapped to estradiol hemihydrate, which is very similar but a bit more effective by weight. This ended up finally getting my levels within range. I probably should have done some more reading beforehand on how 2mg oral EV/EH usually doesn't appreciably up your estradiol levels and pressed the issue with my doctor (he is very willing to listen) but I just assumed he knew best.

The real trouble for me started during the Delta variant-induced lockdown a few months ago. My health anxiety, which I've dealt with separately for a very long time, started intertwining with how I like to be somewhat informed about what different hormones and things do. Consistently higher than reference range readings for a particular adrenal androgen called DHEA-S piqued my interest, and with little to distract me due to stay-at-home orders and general loneliness, I went on a bit of a downward spiral. I started obsessing over how I might be remasculinising despite being on a strong anti-androgen and a respectable dosage of estradiol, even though no issues had ever popped up when my estradiol levels were terrible and my testosterone was higher than it is now. I sunk lots of time into reading random subreddit posts and articles that sent my anxiety through the roof, Googling every little thing I could think of, and I began to convince myself that I was reverting back to where I was before hormones, even though photos pretty clearly proved that wrong. I thought my hairline had suddenly started receding. All sorts of thoughts like this dominated my life and my day for a good couple of months. It got so bad that I was crying for hours on end a day. I ended up getting a blood test for uncommonly tested hormones like DHT (an androgen much stronger than testosterone that you get from an enzyme called 5A-reductase converting testosterone into it) and DHEA (an adrenal prohormone related to DHEA-S that can convert to either testosterone or estradiol), fully expecting both to be off the charts, and sought out a prescription for alternate anti-androgen for when I received what I knew for a fact would be proof my current regimen was ineffective. As it turned out, both of them were firmly in the low end of the reference ranges. I've still occasionally caught myself worrying since getting that blood test, but it felt good knowing I was worrying about what eventuated to be not much at all.

I probably thought starting hormones was going to be a panacea, but it hasn't been. The road leading to them was somewhat of a nightmare and it's been made clear to me that underlying issues, like my tendency to obsess for long periods of time over the smallest things or the fleetingest of thoughts, aren't going to magically disappear. However, I am still very happy that I made it far enough to live to see myself actually start them, because I've thought many times that I wouldn't.
 
not sure how much im gonna end up writing but regardless i think a lot of this will go more into my experiences with these topics than anything else ><. this will undoubtedly read very rambly so idk pls bear with mee

for this past year or so, anyone whos talked to me or seen me would be aware that ive been acting a lot more femininely, i changed my discord tag, i associate with a new group of people (ily all btw <3), and now i changed my name on here too. acting like this is something ive been curious about for not sure how long but ive always just tried to shut it off, only for it to always grow back stronger, so when i do decide to act more feminine, i realize that i kind of like it, a lot actually ><. i rly like being able to express myself more closely to the way i want to, so at first i thought id wanted to be a girl, but the thing is, i also dont mind living the way i am rn and i dont rly feel alien in it at all. i know you dont need gender dysphoria to be what you want to be, that euphoria is more important, but even tho i like being girly, theres some situations where i dont want to be girly (mainly irl but also outside of this site). as a result i wasnt sure if i wanted to be girl, if i wanted to just be a feminine boy, or something like nb. all of these factors, such as how i liked being and seeing myself as girly, how i dont mind the way i am rn, how my parents would disown me if i ever told them anything, how im not rly interested in transitioning, and how i knew that i could change my mind at any point, made it really hard for me to really accept myself for who i am.

thats why im so glad i have people on here to talk to and just feel things out, even if these people arent in a relatable situation as me. ive been able to experiment with this gender identity more and i just feel a lot better about myself, i dont really feel any internalized hatred towards myself. some people have even told me things that have been so validating for me, and ill even share some of those interpretations to anyone still trying to figure themselves out. its perfectly valid to not be 100% sure of who you are right now, and its perfectly valid to think of yourself as one thing in the moment but change your mind afterwards when something else pops up. i know it might be too general and that second one might not apply well if youre wanting to medically transition, but for someone like me it made me feel a lot better about myself. im very bad at shouting people out and i always feel like ill miss someone but shoutouts Lunala omicorio Kavatika anime sans Lyss Juno dnagerbdager pannuracotta hs mncmt Aliss Lilburr ily all :pleading_face: . if i missed you but you feel like you helped me with this in some way, chances are you probably did!! <3

you might be wondering why im saying all of this yet i never even said what i see myself as, and honestly labels are hard and i dont rly like them, cause at the end of the day im still churine. i think genderfluid would be the closest label rn, i tend to see myself differently depending on what i feel or where im at. im also not very picky on pronouns so dont stress over that, though i might make a certain preference a little too obvious >~<, not like i didnt already pick out a name for myself that a few people here know about... im bad at ending these things so all i can say is that thank u and ur valid im likely bisexual k good night <3.
basically im queer as fuck, learned to accept myself being genderfluid, and am not picky about pronouns.
 
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Today is an important day to me, not only because it's my birthday but today I decided to come out as bi to fam/friends, as I'll be moving out soon and wanted to get this off my chest since it's been tormenting me for quite a while, and the results being positive (especially from my friends who were very supportive of me) were honestly a surprise to me and I feel relieved rn. I've grown to think it was wrong to be who I was, and that coupled with emotional abuse from my now late mother contributed to me being a more reserved person overtime, always keeping things to myself to pretend I was ok when I was not in fact, and consequently trying to suppress my own self for one too many times, so it has been difficult for me in the past years but I'm happy it worked out in the end, and I can only thank those of you who influenced my life in any imaginable way, for being the wonderful people you are. To my queer friends I wish you all good luck, I know it can be tough but it'll get better soon, stay strong and keep fighting.
 
hi, i’m blace! i'm coming out as biromantic/bisexual.

i remember that when i was younger, when i found out about sexual orientations, i realized that i was bi - my much younger self recognized that there's nothing wrong with liking more than one gender, and that's what felt perfect for me.
however, i became afraid of the reactions that i would receive for coming out and simply being bi, so i hid this part of me deep down inside. i wanted to detach from it and forget about it, because it thought it wasn't important and that i can just force myself to be straight. and so, i did.
but of course, your identity is something that's important and as i grew older, i realized that i needed to face my sexuality. and so, i did!
after a lot of contemplation, i came to the conclusion that i am indeed bi and don't need to be afraid to be myself. this is what makes me happy, this is what makes me me, and i'm going to embrace it.
coming out to my parents will be so difficult that it might never happen, but i'm proud that i can come to terms with myself despite their teachings. i've struggled with mental health for so long and i'm finally starting to accept and love myself. it's a long road, but i want to make it out. as an intersectional individual, there are so many hurdles for me to overcome, and i’ll face them with my all.
i had a deeply personal and hard conversation today with someone dear to me and i'm glad i was able to work it out with them. i would like to thank 100%GXE rumia StitChuu and pannuracotta for helping me through such a difficult time. i love you guys.
coincidentally, this is my 100th post. thank you for being such a lovely community, in the near-year that i've been here, you've all helped me grow and become a far better person than i was before i met all of you. a thousand thanks and more to all my friends - you're lovely people.

to my fellow LGBTQ+: i wish you all well. you are all beautiful and strong individuals who deserve love and respect, from both ourselves and others, and these are things that we should never be scared to demand, for we should never be denied it in the first place. it's a difficult journey, i'm sure that we'll overcome these hardships together and support each other along the way. please feel free to message me on smogon or discord to talk.
i'm here for you and you are loved.

"there's not a destination, we don't end. it's about constantly becoming."
- dahc dermur viii

have a bi-lace <3
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im not a huge fan of doing this publicly but i think it will help me get more comfortable in my own skin openly admitting/coming to terms with it so im kinda forcing myself to do this! im just here to say that im genderfluid, still kind of figuring out if this is truly what i want in terms of gender expression/identity but this is the step in the right direction i think for myself for now. just had to get it off my chest.

it still feels weird saying it out loud but i prefer he/she pronouns, with a slight preference for she over he atm, but i really don't care all that much :). i had at first believed i was trans but i made the right decision to just wait it out and see how i feel at a later date and what i am really comfortable with. i feel most comfortable with being genderfluid but who knows, maybe this will change at some other point. i can tell this is definitely not the end of my identity journey but its partway there!

i will say it was more so really hard for me to come to this conclusion for myself since i have a lot of internal homophobia from my upbringing. this made me question my identity a lot, even when i considered myself gay at 14. a lot of "is this really who i am"/"this isnt me" and a lot of denial happened. it happened again when i realized recently a few months ago i was likely genderfluid/not entirely male, so i was like wait, this feels familiar! anyway, to anyone else who doubts their identity for similar reasons i have, how do you guys get through it? this shit is hard. for ex. everytime im asked my gender on some official form (doctor stuff, college applications) now, i hesitate what to put because of my recent revelation. i always just kind of panic and put male because its what i feel is societally expected of me to do and what my family expects me to put on there if that makes sense. im just ignoring that aspect of it for now and just trying to flourish in a new identity that im exploring but god its hard. especially when im still under my parents roof but im moving out next year so hopefully that will let me express myself in a way that comforts me. good luck to my other lgbtq+ friends who are going through the same sort of issues, we got this!! :heart:

a lot of people kinda guided me through my thoughts and let me talk about my feelings so ty to gum km mushamu and lily, i appreciate you all alot more than i can put it into words, seriously! this is probably weird for my friends who i havent talked to about it to see now considering this is pretty out of the blue but whateva
 
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Recently I've been wondering if I was demiromantic. I've only ever had a romantic interest in two people, my childhood friend who at the time of writing this post I have known for 13 years (she and I are now dating), and another dude who I've known for around 7 years at the time of my interest in him. After speaking to my friends, most of whom aren't in the LGBTQ+ community, they all thought it was a clear case of being demiromantic. I'm not so sure though, which is why I'd like to ask you people for your input.
 
Recently I've been wondering if I was demiromantic. I've only ever had a romantic interest in two people, my childhood friend who at the time of writing this post I have known for 13 years (she and I are now dating), and another dude who I've known for around 7 years at the time of my interest in him. After speaking to my friends, most of whom aren't in the LGBTQ+ community, they all thought it was a clear case of being demiromantic. I'm not so sure though, which is why I'd like to ask you people for your input.
I wouldn't get too hung up on labels. Everyone's experience of love is different and I think it's honestly better to interrogate your feelings of romantic attraction on your own terms, rather than letting a homogenizing label do the work for you. You may find yourself being more easily attracted to others later down the line, in which case investing yourself in an identity label like 'demiromantic' only serves to make your feelings more confusing, perhaps even obstructing your acknowledgement of those romantic feelings as such because they do not fit in with experience you're supposed to have according to said identity label. Some identity labels are more useful than others of course, for example identifying as gay or trans makes sense because homosexual and transgender people often face discrimination and institutional oppression, meaning they have a clear shared struggle that binds them socially and politically. To openly identify as transgender, although it comes with its own risks, can also provide one with a feeling of community and solidarity with other trans people who share similar experiences to one's own. Labels such as demiromantic, on the other hand, pertain mostly to your own self-understanding rather than how you are seen and treated in society. Not being as romantically inclined as others can come with its own set of problems, of course, but not every experience of feeling marginal is necessarily connected to oppression.

In other words, whether or not you identify as demiromantic should ultimately only come down to the question if you think it helps to think of yourself that way, and from personal experience and observation of those around me I would argue that usually it is better not to tie yourself down to a label too much (this post discusses the problems with self-identification in more depth, I recommend it). In any case, if you're unsure if this label fits with you, don't let others decide for you what you are and what you are not. I hope this post helped, if you have further questions or anything is unclear to you feel free to ask.
 
There's something that needs to be said while I'm on a roll with posts tonight. I'll just cut straight to the chase. I was raised in an almost entirely conservative environment that isn't exactly "phobic" of anything (although I have seen my fair share of stinkers too), but while I myself am as straight as they come, I need to say one little tiny thing.

Conversations about people's sexual orientations have become way, WAY too politicized and religious.

It honestly drives me insane. It's quite a shame, too, because even if I myself don't follow the orientation someone else does, the community you have here has some really nice people in it, and what right do I have to force my beliefs onto other people? On top of being raised in a conservative environment, I was also raised in an old-fashioned Christian environment as well. From what I've been able to tell, there are significantly more toxic Christians that I'd rather not be associated with than there are toxic people in the LGBTQ+ community. There's a reason we hear the word "homophobic" all the time and never hear "straight-phobic".

I would like to think that, while I agree with many of, if not all of the Christian philosophies I was born believing, I am mature enough to understand that something or someone, in the Christian's case being who we call God, gave us this neat little thing called free will. Toxic Christians and corrupt conservatives I get to hear the full blast of often times fail to recognize that this doesn't have to be a political matter at all. Do I have my opinions on "how many genders there are" and "male and female marriage" and whatnot? Of course I do. But do I want to be the kind of servant who insists on judging others when the very book that we use for worship LITERALLY says to not judge others and let God take care of things? Freaking hypocrites, Christians can be.

No, absolutely not. It gives me a sense of relief to get these things off of my chest. I'm trying to get better at keeping other people in my prayers (more specifically being better at prayer in general but this isn't the thread for that). I wish to try and do the same for all of you. As for the political side of this... again, does it really matter? Republican, Democrat, Independent, Libertarian... the United States in particular fails to recognize that we all share the fact that we are human. I can't help but wonder how things are in other countries.
 
Conversations about people's sexual orientations have become way, WAY too politicized and religious.
So long as the existence of a group of people is questioned by a large (sometimes larger) group of others, it will remain political. One of the core aims of the decentralised LGBT+ movement is acceptance, which comes with the aim of eventually having it not be this way. Is that unfeasible and naïve? At this point in time, yes, but it's a good goal to strive for if we're talking decades of persistent reinforcement.

It's unfortunately been very political for a very long time, and to combat the erasure and censorship of our existence, it has to be fought in turn. The movement's beginnings were political; records of advocacy in English-speaking countries date back to the 18th century. Think of how if you stay quiet against a bully in school, that bully will take over your life...I feel like we would be long dead if we sat down and kept taking it. I mean, people want us dead. In the US, "trans panic" has been used as a legitimate defence for crimes in courts, which I can only describe as a special kind of messed up.

This hasn't just randomly come up; the increased presence of, well, any minority on the internet in the past decade has just made the conversations more visible. Back before the internet even existed, these conversations were still being had, but depending on your upbringing, they weren't always visible. It's a bit of a "culture shock" to the uninitiated a lot of the time. "Wow, you have to argue this all the time?", yep! Sometimes daily! You get used to it!

So while it's unfortunate that it has to be this way, minority stress is out in force and it truly has to be acted on. Otherwise, that's how genocides occur. Keep in mind, it is quite literally a matter of existence. There is no other way to really deal with it. Appeasement is the same as accepting that you don't exist in a lot of respects. Repression is not an answer.

This definitely doesn't encompass everything, but I hope it helps explain why it's like this.
 
this is a precious thread and i am happy to see it

reminder that you are not being dishonest if you have not yet come out to family members you don't normally see, but whom you will be seeing around the holidays. you don't owe anyone your true self, that is always yours to give if you choose to do so!! you are valid presenting however makes you feel safest and most secure until the topsy-turvyness has gone back to normal <3

also, girls are hot :puff:
 
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