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Trevor Project: crisis mental health services for LGBTQ people, lots of helpful information and resources: https://www.thetrevorproject.org/

The Gender Dysphoria Bible: useful info on various aspects of gender dysphoria: https://genderdysphoria.fyi/en

StainedGlassWoman: Various useful essays on trans topics: https://stainedglasswoman.substack.com/

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[USA] Resources for trans people in the South: https://southernequality.org/resources/transinthesouth/#provider-map

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[GERMANY] Bundesverband Trans: Find medical trans resources: https://www.bundesverband-trans.de/publikationen/leitfaden-fuer-behandlungssuchende/

[GERMANY] Trans DB: Insurance information (may be outdated): https://transdb.de/

[GERMANY] Deutsche Gesellschaft für Transidentität und Intersexualität: They have contact information for their advice centers and some general information for trans and intersex people. They also do activism: dgti.org

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Futa is a slur and shouldn't be used. (pastebin.com)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by FirstMajesticComet@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/trans@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/22392872

The word futa or futanari is a term I unfortunately see used against trans women and actual intersex people. It is a term which originated in porn and anime to describe someone with both types of genitals, usually though it just refers to someone who looks feminine and has a penis. So it's no surprise it's very often used to describe non-op trans women primarily. Because it's often used in porn it carries strong connotations of sexualization and dehumanization, it reduces the person being called futa to an object of sexual desire and doesn't respect them as a person.

This term is extremely disrespectful and really has no place being used, especially in reference to trans women. Additionally because of its relation to porn people who use it will almost certainly be seen as chasers.

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[–] FirstMajesticComet@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When one is using it on themselves like you describe it is a form of reclamation. Same goes with trap.

Though I disagree with you and find "trap" to be uber offensive even as someone who is also a femboy, because it implies I pretend to be a woman to trick people, really gross.

You are spot on that these words are mainly offensive when used against people pejoratively, in that context they absolutely are slurs.

[–] SquishedFly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

it implies I pretend to be a woman to trick people, really gross.

Best argument I've heard as to why it's a slur. Honestly thank you.

[–] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The term is rooted from "entrampment" referencing a legal defense where straight cis men would seek a lesser charge than murder because the victim "tricked" them into being into the situation.

The trans panic defense is a closely related legal strategy applied in cases of assault or murder of a transgender individual whom the assailant(s) had engaged with, or were close to engaging with, in sexual relations, and claim to have been unaware that the victim was transgender, producing in the attacker an alleged trans panic reaction. In most cases, the violence or murder is perpetrated by a heterosexual man against a heterosexual trans woman.

[–] FirstMajesticComet@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 16 hours ago

Oh my god, that makes it even worse, WTF? Seriously how can femboys want to call themselves something that has such an awful connotation to it.