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Even with the reactionary backlash, trans acceptance has been the one good news in this millennium
I sorta think pretty much everything else have been a downward spirel since this millennium was kickstarted with 9/11. Just a random thought! The speed with which trans women moved from being...
I sorta think pretty much everything else have been a downward spirel since this millennium was kickstarted with 9/11. Just a random thought! The speed with which trans women moved from being perverted men to moderately tolerated members of society is staggering. Anyone here know why and when it happened?
If we look at Google Ngram for 'trans people' we see an upward curve after 2000 (the internet I guess) but it really took off somewhere after 2010.
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High school administrators trapped a student in a Kafkaesque nightmare. They gave her the option of being suspended or face the threat of rape and assault. Her family is now suing the school district.
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"Body of Mine" puts users in a virtual body of a different gender
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Jamie Lee Curtis’ bottom line on her trans daughter: "Love is love"
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Five myths in the US House of Representatives anti-trans hearing against gender affirming care
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Kellie-Jay and the Neo-Nazis
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Two cisgender people were killed in separate attacks motivated by transphobia in the US
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Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care for minors to go into effect for now
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As a cis het white male, how do I better understand trans and trans issues?
I'm pretty high on the cis het side of the scale, but I'm an understanding and individual freedom loving person. I believe "to each their own" and support that strongly. I'm an elder millennial....
I'm pretty high on the cis het side of the scale, but I'm an understanding and individual freedom loving person. I believe "to each their own" and support that strongly.
I'm an elder millennial. While we used LGB slurs casually, I never really meant them as slurs against the community. It's just how my peers spoke. Trans was never on my radar at the time. (Maybe a little, but I figured it was much rarer than it appears to be)
Homosexuality was always easy for me to understand. From a particular instance: "Do you like girls, Jackie? (Nod). Me too. That's cool." End of need to understand. Plus it was about a butt, and a butt is pretty sex/gender nonspecific.
I also always felt honored when people came out to me.
I just feel like I'm having trouble empathizing with trans individuals. I cannot imagine myself in that position like I can with homosexual or asexual individuals. The pronoun thing also wracks my brain. I'm more accepting of "they" as an object, but "they" as a subject for an individual feels so horrid to me.
First and foremost, I don't personally know anyone trans. I'm not sure how to change that without being weird.
Thanks for your support in my learning!
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Barriers to transgender health care lead some to embrace a do-it-yourself approach
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Hair removal tips needed!
Hey all, so I'm a trans woman and, like a lot of other people, my biggest point of dysphoria is my facial hair. I've been going through electrolysis for the past five months. I love it when it...
Hey all, so I'm a trans woman and, like a lot of other people, my biggest point of dysphoria is my facial hair. I've been going through electrolysis for the past five months. I love it when it works, but the speed of the process is really getting me down. I do one hour every two weeks (I'd do more if I had the money), and after five months of solely working on my upper lip the progress just isn't where I was hoping to be.
What are y'alls experiences with electro, and what was the regiment that worked for you? Did you do something other than electrolysis, how'd it work out? Other general hair removal tips to look as clean as possible?
I'll share one of my own:
- The Finishing Touch Flawless Razor (Walmart link) has been the best, and most affordable electric razor I've found that gets an extremely close shave without too much skin irritation (I have the most irritated skin in the world). Highly recommend!
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The top five US states to be transgender in 2023
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How the pandemic hatched a new generation of transgender people
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Your synthesizer is trans (and other stories)
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Saying hello!
It's empty in here, so I figured I'd break the ice. Hi. I'm "Albinanigans" bumbling around (and a recent deflector from Reddit... but you probably guessed that). I am a transgender non-binary...
It's empty in here, so I figured I'd break the ice. Hi. I'm "Albinanigans" bumbling around (and a recent deflector from Reddit... but you probably guessed that). I am a transgender non-binary Black person who likes to ramble on the Internet.
I have a question for the floor: what do you do for gender affirmation? What gives you gender euphoria?
My answer: I recently received a hysterectomy, and it was pretty affirming! It is one less thing to cause dysphoria. I also like mixing and matching femme and masc clothing in my outfit.
So, yeah, happy to be here! Hope to talk more soon.
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Bringing over the trans surgery wiki
I was wondering what you all thought of this. I would like to bring it over, posts included so that it doesn't get lost. Wiki
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Thoughts on LGBT memes and cliches
By this i mean things like blahaj, programmer socks, etc. Personally i think theyre kinda funny and i myself have gotten my own blahaj as a way to show my "trans license" but i was wondering how...
By this i mean things like blahaj, programmer socks, etc. Personally i think theyre kinda funny and i myself have gotten my own blahaj as a way to show my "trans license" but i was wondering how other people might feel about them. Perhaps some people think theyre overdone or they just dont agree with them.
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UK to stop administering puberty blockers to adolescents
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Elliot Page: Embracing my trans identity saved me
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The Horror [CW: dysphoria, suicide, the f-slur]
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Three generations of trans Americans reflect on what has (and hasn't) changed
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‘So, I hear I’m transphobic’: Dee Snider responds after being dropped by San Francisco Pride
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Indiana governor signs “Don’t Say Gay” bill that forces teachers to out trans kids to their parents
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F1 star Lewis Hamilton blasts Florida’s anti-LBGTQ measures
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Dwyane Wade, who has trans daughter, says he left Florida because his family 'would not be accepted' there
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Gender-affirming care has a long history in the US
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Lawmakers are being silenced for speaking out against anti-trans bills
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2023 United States anti-trans legislation tracker
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Nebraska lawmaker three weeks into filibuster over trans bill
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Saudi trans woman Eden Knight feared dead after posting suicide note saying family had hired "fixers" to bring her back to Saudi Arabia and force her to detransition
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Why are AMAB trans people denied the closet?
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Tennessee becomes the first state to pass a ban on drag shows. The bill is so vaguely worded it could also target trans people and Pride celebrations generally.
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'Everything Everywhere' props auctioned to support low-income Asians and trans community
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All the evidence against transgender social contagion
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Finland has passed a new, progressive rights law which makes it substantially easier for trans people to change their legal gender
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UK government to block Scottish gender bill
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A deep, nuanced Tumblr discussion about trans-exclusionary beliefs and how they come to be
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How trans singers adapt to their changing voices
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Florida Board of Medicine votes to ban gender affirming care for all trans teenagers
@Erin Reed: A dark day for trans youth.Florida Board of Medicine has just voted to ban gender affirming care for all trans teenagers.They cut the hearing early and told activists to "email them."I cry for Florida's trans youth. This was a sham hearing with fake experts. pic.twitter.com/JORaHN4uFA
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Anti-trans candidates fail to make major gains in Ontario school board elections
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JK Rowling furious to hear monarch has transitioned to a man
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Interrogating Gender-Exploratory Therapy (Perspectives on psychological science)
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How the idea of a “transgender contagion” went viral—and caused untold harm
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‘I’m in a great place’: Former AFL coach Dani Laidley tells how she finally found peace
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After their daughters were beat by a girl in sports, Utah parents triggered investigation into whether she was transgender
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New LGBTQ+ plan presented by the Danish government includes a proposal to expand access to legal gender change to all children regardless of age
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The trans swimmer who won too much
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Gender has a history and its more recent than you may realize—The story of how society, ignorant of medical research, made a stigma of something our bodies do naturally: not conform to a sexual binary
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Judge blocks Texas investigating families of trans youth
18 votes