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[–]winterwillow 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Do you believe people should or should not transition? Why or why not?

I do not believe people should transition unless every other option have been explored, and the person is over 25 years old. Learning self-acceptance can be very helpful even if transition turns out to be the best solution, since so many have very unrealistic 'transition goals'.

As the LGB, what would you like for the T to know or do for your group to support you?(talking about regular T, like gender non-conforming folks or homosexual transexuals, not the...autogynephiles).

Would like them to 1) acknowledge biological sex and that it can't be changed 2) acknowledge the need for separate spaces, I have great gay guy friends, still want a space away from them sometimes, it's not hate. 3) call out the entitled behaviour from heterosexual trans people. If we could start with these basic things, at least then maybe a productive dialogue could be had, instead of arguing over definitions and exclusion.

Do you know many in your circle that transitioned and are either part of the L, G, or B? What is the story behind that?

I have a trans women friend from middle/high school, who transitioned maybe 8 years ago when he was mid-twenties. He was always looking for a new identity, music, heritage, language etc. He is bisexual, but I only found out after he transitioned, and then he was already dating his current gf, who he met as a guy. He only dated guys in 'girl mode' and one of them treated him very badly sadly. He strikes me more as a HSTS, and he lives a quiet work-focused life nowadays, and is not active in any lgbt issues. I hope transition worked out for him, but I don't know how he's doing except some FB posts and messages.

I also met several trans men in transition when I was attending university in 2012, this was just about when the trans community started gaining traction. They were all homosexual i e lesbians from what I could tell, but I wasn't close to any of them, it was through the lgbt student organisation.

Have YOU been pressured to transition or be apart of the "queer" community?

Hmm, no, but I did have a period in my teens where I had dysphoria, did bind, cut my hair, dressed androgynously etc. And at my time at uni with the trans men, I did read Butler and made brain tests that told me I had a 'male brain' and thought I was demisexual and 'genderqueer', but I never said anything in public or to friends even, and pronouns wasn't a thing yet. And my rational male brain (lol) told me I could never identify out of my female body or oppression. And then I found rad fems on tumblr who said the same thing thankfully.

When do you predict the "T" will be dropped from the "LGB"?

I think the time is coming sooner than we think. We can't have that many more Keira Bell cases without some corner stones of the trans ideology crumbling. And there's a time limit to trends. How cool and special is it to be non-binary if your mom, sister, three of your friends and the entire lgbtqia+++ club identify as such? The sad thing is that the dropping should be done before everything crumbles, because they will try to drag us down with them, and homophobic politicians will try to take advantage. But I do have hope.

[–]reluctant_commenter 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think the time is coming sooner than we think. We can't have that many more Keira Bell cases without some corner stones of the trans ideology crumbling. And there's a time limit to trends. How cool and special is it to be non-binary if your mom, sister, three of your friends and the entire lgbtqia+++ club identify as such? The sad thing is that the dropping should be done before everything crumbles, because they will try to drag us down with them, and homophobic politicians will try to take advantage. But I do have hope.

Those are all really good points.