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[–]JulienMayfair 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

From another post by the same person:

So like...I dunno if my imagination just sucks or whatever, but I'm having a really hard time picturing myself "as a guy" or in a male body, if you will.

Like I've tried to make comparisons to my dad and brother, but I look like a carbon copy of my mom so I'm at a loss. I look in the mirror and try really hard to picture myself with a cut jawline and facial hair, and I deepen my voice as much as I can to try and get a feel for what it'll sound like, and even with binding it's hard to ignore the very obvious extra weight in my chest area that shouldn't be there. So I just end up feeling defeated because no matter how much I exercise my imagination, I feel like I just can't get an accurate or even remotely close idea of my true male form. My current body is not a man's, but it's the only one I've known all my life so I hate that my whole life up to now I've had no idea what it's like to be in a man's body. Probably why I find it so hard to imagine what it's like to be in one because I just have no experience to compare it to.

Reading things like this, I think "Life is hard enough as it is without trying to be something you aren't."

[–]SerpensInferna 18 insightful - 1 fun18 insightful - 0 fun19 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

What seems especially tragic to me is the complete b.s. these kids are being fed. Honey, you don't have a man's body and you will never have a man's body. You may have a deepened voice and be able to grow facial hair, but your proportions will always be off, your shoulders narrow, your waist curved and hips flared, and a working penis from which you can derive pleasure is nothing more than a fantasy (and that's after torturous and completely unnecessary surgeries).

I know I'm preaching to the choir, but this ideology is quite literally destroying lives. I have seen numerous detrans women who will never get their perfectly healthy breasts back or who will always have a baritone voice. It's so completely infuriating.