LGB ErasureThis is "trans joy"? Where?

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[–]MarkJeffersonTight defenses and we draw the line 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Is she also chasing the fountain of youth? Because that's what transition is for a lot of people. A opportunity for someone to sculpt the time off of themselves while they change genders. They never trans up in age, only down; Acting younger than they are. I feel like Page is doing that with her teen boy thing.

[–]wafflegaffWoman. SuperBi. 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

A trans woman I know who is maybe 60-ish made some social media posts during the transition about 10 years ago and said it was like going through a second puberty. FWIW. Probably relates both to the hormones taken and some euphoria. She definitely was posting a lot at that time in ways that seemed more like a teenage girl. She's chilled out since then mostly. (She passes pretty well and I have to interact with her IRL so I'm not about to train myself back out of saying she/her, lest I slip and am banished, etc. She isn't actively "out" in the present day even though she didn't hide it on social media. So I am pretty sure a large portion of her current social circles don't know.)

[–]MarkJeffersonTight defenses and we draw the line 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

From your experience, I gather that not only does transition resemble a rebirth or 'second puberty' to some trans people, but their euphoria can be from a feeling of escapism from their old life if people end up treating them very differently afterwards. That's what individuals in a life rut/crisis tend to relish if they are seeking to shake their life up. That and an(other) opportunity to transgress social acceptability/norms. It's almost adolescent in its attitude. Maybe that's also why they so often model their behavior after how they think youth of the opposite sex behave. It sounds like that person you know has managed to sate that hunger for escapism and change so is satisfied the way they are now, and is settling down.

[–]wafflegaffWoman. SuperBi. 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'd say so but she's definitely fundamentally childish, just not in an abusive way; there's some definite narcissism there, though it's mostly at low levels. She didn't manage to keep a cis girlfriend for more than a short time last year, and I was not surprised, since she mostly talks about herself, and talks a lot. (The ex-GF is now nonbinary, but never mind.) Couldn't say if she's AGP or not. Hard to tell. Mostly, she's full of herself.