I never knew peeps could be so transphobic
this post was submitted on 01 Aug 2025
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Those shitheads had an unintended opposite effect on me. All this attention on trans issues in the last decade or so made me think about some things about myself and my past and made me finally realize I'm not cisgendered either. 40+ years living as a man, and now am planning on going on HRT soon to live as the androgynous enby I really am.
This is such a big reason why LGBTQ+ representation is so important. They love to say that we're "shoving it down their throats" and whatever, but it's not for them. It's for us, and those of us who don't yet know that they're one of us. People live with varying degrees of suffering, feeling like something is missing, or wrong, and have no idea what that missing piece is. Then at some point they encounter something, and finally they find that missing piece and it changes their lives.
but it's not for them. It's for us,
I think that's like half the reason these people are so foul to us. So much self-importance that the idea that any piece of media, even ones they probably didn't give a shit about in the first place, would not mindlessly glaze all the concepts they've built themselves around (straight, cis, white, etc) feels like an attack. The most tiring self-victimizing middle-aged toddlers in the world.
It's amazing to see how many of us are starting our journeys later in life. I'm in a similar boat, lived 30-odd years as a man and with the pushes that have happened, both positive and negative, figured out I was Genderfae. If it wasn't for trans spaces and issues becoming more prominent, I don't think I ever would have stopped thinking "There's just something wrong with me".
May all our journeys end in happiness.
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❤️ I think I'd still be in the closet myself if not for getting so worked up by the election results back in November. I had started hrt on the down-low back in 2023, but I wasn't out to anyone. I didn't want those pricks to take away my ability to rename myself. So I rushed to get everything changed, though they still did screw me on the passport. Out to my coworkers and some of my family, plus everyone I do business with, and way happier for it, even if things are really far from ideal.
Kinda surprised it didn't work that way for me. Ended up regularly watching a politics streamer who was trans and talked about trans issues frequently and still remained oblivious for years.