LifestyleDay 1 of Volunteering at My LGBT Group. It’s Mostly Trans and Nb People

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[–]wafflegaffWoman. SuperBi. 13 insightful - 3 fun13 insightful - 2 fun14 insightful - 3 fun -  (6 children)

Thank you for this report from the front. Does the group have a specific purpose or is it just a general gathering / support group for your geographical area?

[–]ChunkeeguyTeam T*RF Fuck Yeah 11 insightful - 3 fun11 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Dear god that sounds so fucking exhausting. Wake me up when it's all over.

[–]Beryl 9 insightful - 4 fun9 insightful - 3 fun10 insightful - 4 fun -  (3 children)

Wait, people were upset that you didn't have a cool chosen name like "Flyx" and just went with your normal nickname??

[–]SilverWolf 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Could be that, or they were disappointed she gave them pronouns that showed she's cis, and therefore not really one of them.

[–]chazzstrong 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Annoying at times, but they aren’t awful people.

Just let them catch a whiff of you not being 100% TRA, or that you think the LGB should be separate of the TQ+, and I guarantee that will change.

[–]JulienMayfair 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Many campus groups have been completely taken over by the TQ+ for some time. My alma mater used to have a Gay & Lesbian Resources Office. Now it has a Center for Gender and Sexual Diversity or something like that. All its programming is targeted to trans, and its new director is a trans man.

LGB people are going to have to reinvent resources for ourselves unless we simply want to be burdened with doing emotional support work for trans people.

[–]MarkJeffersonTight defenses and we draw the line 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I’m surprised that this much wokeness is even here where I live. My state has been largely unaffected by the gender wars.

I think they're just underrepresented in some places. Like how other areas overrepresent the woke. And colleges in general are usually the exception to the dominant regional culture that isn't, anyway.

When I just said she/her and a shortened form of my name because it's a longer name, the group went quiet. I broke the silence with a heterophobic joke and talked about my previous work.

No offense, but imagining this awkward scene playing out made me lol 😂

NB chick then talked about how her father doesn't like trans people, which she doesn't get why because he let her do boy activities when she was young.

Probably because doing traditionally "boy" activities not anything as controversial or objectionable as identifying as the other sex.

The NBs struggles are just their parents not getting it.

Unfortunately for them, no one truly gets it. Everyone's just playing along.

Thanks for your summary. Hope to hear more about your experiences with this group.