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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[GERMANY] Trans DB: Insurance information (may be outdated): https://transdb.de/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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Questionning, i guess ? Sorry if I'm being confusing, it's just that I'm confused... This is all new to me .-.
To put some context I live with roomates and although I told them I might experiment some things like makeup, it still takes some "social effort" to really do it. Like dressing up, I wouldn't know where and how to start...
On top of that, I still have some kind of impostor syndrom for some reason. The dissonance is tyring, so I just lie in bed, try to read frieren and play caves of qud
No worries! Figuring yourself out is hard and there's no rush. It just sounded like you knew you wanted to transition, but were waiting for some kind of confirmation. Sorry if I'm mistaken.
May I share an anecdote?
Where I live, you need a Gender Incongruence diagnosis for clinics to prescribe you HRT. Last year I went to my appointment and chatted with the doctor for half an hour or so. We talked about how I felt I'd be happy living as a woman, but I always felt I needed to try to be a man (since everyone told me that's what I was); I told him about how I felt something was missing from my life and wanted to transition, and how I'd started DIY HRT. He happily issued me with an official diagnosis that read (roughly) "this person considers themself to be a woman, and has a strong desire to transition socially and medically".
I felt terrible, like I'd tricked this doctor into giving me a diagnosis I didn't deserve, when all I really wanted was to get feminizing HRT. But I went and got the prescription anyway :3
Looking back now it's really funny, but at the time I still hadn't figured out that wanting to be a woman really is the same thing as being a woman. The hardest part of transitioning (so far) has been allowing myself to say "I'm a trans woman" and believe it.
Anyway, good luck with your exploration.
Thank you for your answer :)
I have read that any trans person is confronted with some kind of impostor syndrom at some point, your anecdote proves that to be true ! I do feel like I trick people/myself at times because I don't feel 100% dysphoria all the time, although I do feel euphoria almost always when I picture myself as a woman. I've read that it's normal, feelings come and go... I suppose since I'm feeling confused, I'm looking for some certainty somewhere :P
See you next week I guess haha I think it's cool to talk about it in this thread, even to put words on how I feel