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General trans community.
Rules:
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Follow all blahaj.zone rules
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All posts must be trans-related. Other queer-related posts go to c/lgbtq.
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Don't post negative, depressing news articles about trans issues unless there is a call to action or a way to help.
Resources:
Best resource: https://github.com/cvyl/awesome-transgender Site with links to resources for just about anything.
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/
Trans resources: https://trans-resources.info/
[USA] Resources for trans people in the South: https://southernequality.org/resources/transinthesouth/#provider-map
[USA] Report discrimination: https://action.aclu.org/legal-intake/report-lgbtqhiv-discrimination
[USA] Keep track on trans legislation and news: https://www.erininthemorning.com/
[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[GERMANY] Trans DB: Insurance information (may be outdated): https://transdb.de/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
*this is a work in progress, and these resources are courtesy of users like you! if you have a resource that helped you out in your trans journey, comment below in the pinned post and I'll add here to pass it on
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Had a medical appointment where the tech referred to me as a "good girl" and a "sweet girl" several times. I felt pretty great that day 💖
It is a bit amusing how ironic it is that conservative places are also some of the most accidentally gender-affirming. The South seems like a place you are far more likely to get terms of endearment like good / sweet girl, darling, sweetie, honey, dear, and so on.
When I first started getting these, I didn't realize it meant I was passing, I primarily thought it signaled confusion about my age.
So I get why cis women would be quite upset about being called these terms, they are infantilizing in a way men never experience, and a clear example of sexism and the way women and femininity are taken as non-serious, like a child might be.
But I never had a childhood where these terms applied to me, and pretty quickly I learned being called these terms meant the person genuinely saw me as a woman (maybe a young woman, but not a trans woman). So for the most part, I love it when these Southern women affirm me and call me by cute endearing terms like "sweet girl", I just overlook the sexism and bask in the affirmation / ewphoria. 🥰