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Trans Men Are Not Women
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Anti-Cistamines
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Please Don't Deadnaming Eve
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Is This Destroying My Free Speech
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We Know More About This Than You
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HRT And Crumpets
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Pro-Nouns & Anti-Verbs
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Postby Western Vale Confederacy » Mon Mar 04, 2019 2:15 am

Grenartia wrote:
Maxine IV wrote:
So, having done a little more research, I'll say that I'm genderqueer.

Guess I posted that here just so I can say it somewhere.

Anyone have any rsources available for genderqueer people (as opposed to full trans people?)


I know this is gonna involve a lot of digging, but there should be plenty in the OP. Also, for what its worth, we're just as trans as binary trans people.


What exactly is the consensus on feminine males then?

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Postby Grenartia » Mon Mar 04, 2019 2:19 am

Western Vale Confederacy wrote:
Grenartia wrote:
I know this is gonna involve a lot of digging, but there should be plenty in the OP. Also, for what its worth, we're just as trans as binary trans people.


What exactly is the consensus on feminine males then?


What's the price for a gallon of milk in Beijing?
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Postby Western Vale Confederacy » Mon Mar 04, 2019 2:20 am

Grenartia wrote:
Western Vale Confederacy wrote:
What exactly is the consensus on feminine males then?


What's the price for a gallon of milk in Beijing?


Twelve yuans, for a liter of whole milk.

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Postby Maxine IV » Mon Mar 04, 2019 2:50 am

Grenartia wrote:
Maxine IV wrote:
So, having done a little more research, I'll say that I'm genderqueer.

Guess I posted that here just so I can say it somewhere.

Anyone have any rsources available for genderqueer people (as opposed to full trans people?)


I know this is gonna involve a lot of digging, but there should be plenty in the OP. Also, for what its worth, we're just as trans as binary trans people.


Sorry if I offended you. Still getting my head around what this all means.
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Postby Western Vale Confederacy » Mon Mar 04, 2019 2:53 am

Maxine IV wrote:
Grenartia wrote:
I know this is gonna involve a lot of digging, but there should be plenty in the OP. Also, for what its worth, we're just as trans as binary trans people.


Sorry if I offended you. Still getting my head around what this all means.


But what exactly are you feeling when it comes to expression and identity?

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Postby The Blaatschapen » Mon Mar 04, 2019 3:08 am

Grenartia wrote:
Western Vale Confederacy wrote:
What exactly is the consensus on feminine males then?


What's the price for a gallon of milk in Beijing?


No idea. They use SI over there :p
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Postby Thama » Mon Mar 04, 2019 5:30 am

The blAAtschApen wrote:
Grenartia wrote:
What's the price for a gallon of milk in Beijing?


No idea. They use SI over there :p


What's the price for 3.8 litres of milk in Beijing?

Also what's this phrase even mean
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Postby Grenartia » Mon Mar 04, 2019 6:05 am

Western Vale Confederacy wrote:
Grenartia wrote:
What's the price for a gallon of milk in Beijing?


Twelve yuans, for a liter of whole milk.


My point in asking that was to illustrate my confusion on what your question had to do with what I said.

Maxine IV wrote:
Grenartia wrote:
I know this is gonna involve a lot of digging, but there should be plenty in the OP. Also, for what its worth, we're just as trans as binary trans people.


Sorry if I offended you. Still getting my head around what this all means.


No, I wasn't offended, and I'm sorry if it came across like I was. I totally understand what you're going through, I used to be where you are right now.

Thama wrote:
The blAAtschApen wrote:
No idea. They use SI over there :p


What's the price for 3.8 litres of milk in Beijing?

Also what's this phrase even mean


There's a phrase in English that goes along the lines of "What's that got to do with the price of milk in China?" Generally used as a way of telling the other person that something they brought up is irrelevant to the current topic of discussion.
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Postby Hanafuridake » Tue Mar 05, 2019 12:05 am

Western Vale Confederacy wrote:
Grenartia wrote:
I know this is gonna involve a lot of digging, but there should be plenty in the OP. Also, for what its worth, we're just as trans as binary trans people.


What exactly is the consensus on feminine males then?


Feminine males aren't trans (I mean, there are transmen who are feminine, but being a feminine male in and of itself doesn't make you queer). You can be an ultra-feminine man and be completely cis & straight.
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Postby The Shining Purple Light » Tue Mar 05, 2019 12:11 am

Maxine IV wrote:
Maxine IV wrote:
I'm looking for information, resoutces, etc, on identifying as both male and female, if that's even a thing. I know I'm definitely feminine, but I don't think I'm trans because I don't reject my male self. I came here because I have no idea wherelse to go. Any advice would be helpful.


So, having done a little more research, I'll say that I'm genderqueer.

Guess I posted that here just so I can say it somewhere.

Anyone have any rsources available for genderqueer people (as opposed to full trans people?)

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Postby Grenartia » Wed Mar 06, 2019 8:11 am

The Shining Purple Light wrote:
Maxine IV wrote:
So, having done a little more research, I'll say that I'm genderqueer.

Guess I posted that here just so I can say it somewhere.

Anyone have any rsources available for genderqueer people (as opposed to full trans people?)

Bigender/Genderqueer, whatever floats your boat!
Being trans isn't limited to being a trans woman or a trans man, being trans is being not in complete alignment with the gender you were assigned at birth.


Essentially, this.
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Postby Seangoli » Wed Mar 06, 2019 8:18 am

Grenartia wrote:
Western Vale Confederacy wrote:
How the hell does one believe that it is a "corruption"?


Its a pretty recent, but shockingly common belief, especially in religious and TERF circles. I believe the term is "social contagion", at least in the more secular circles, but the more fundamentalist ones probably chalk it up to demonic possession.


Nah, nothing so sinister as possession usually. You are just being influenced and brainwashed by sinners into sinning, according to the nuts.

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Postby Grenartia » Wed Mar 06, 2019 8:20 am

Seangoli wrote:
Grenartia wrote:
Its a pretty recent, but shockingly common belief, especially in religious and TERF circles. I believe the term is "social contagion", at least in the more secular circles, but the more fundamentalist ones probably chalk it up to demonic possession.


Nah, nothing so sinister as possession usually. You are just being influenced and brainwashed by sinners into sinning, according to the nuts.


I'm pretty sure a significant portion of them unironically believe its demon possession.
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Postby Hanafuridake » Wed Mar 06, 2019 8:25 am

Grenartia wrote:
Seangoli wrote:
Nah, nothing so sinister as possession usually. You are just being influenced and brainwashed by sinners into sinning, according to the nuts.


I'm pretty sure a significant portion of them unironically believe its demon possession.


If I only I could convince the devil to possess the entire male population then.
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Postby Seangoli » Wed Mar 06, 2019 8:28 am

Liriena wrote:
Anarcho capitalist utopia wrote:If you believe what the mother says. Just because the court sided with an abusive mother who wants to force her son to pretend to be female, doesnt justify her actions

So you are arguing that you know better than the court who handled this case because... you read some shitty, poorly written and shamelessly biased article on lifesitenews?

Anarcho capitalist utopia wrote:James has been known to act as a girl only under his mother's precense. He has been pressured into saying those things by his mother. He did not act that way with anyone else, or at least until the mother got full custody and was able to enact her disturbing fantasies onto him

Alternative explanation: Luna presented as female under his mother's care because she's not a bigoted pile of shit like her father, who verbally and physically abused both Luna and her mother.


Meanwhile, he believes the Father, who lied practically about every aspect of his life prior to getting married (lied about not being married before, lied about career and employment, lied about income, lied about military service, etc. Etc) He then continued to do so after being married, and said lying was the reason they got divorced.


Color me skeptical on his version of events.

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Postby West Leas Oros 2 » Wed Mar 06, 2019 8:34 am

Hanafuridake wrote:
Grenartia wrote:
I'm pretty sure a significant portion of them unironically believe its demon possession.


If I only I could convince the devil to possess the entire male population then.

>implying men aren’t already devils

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Postby Dumb Ideologies » Wed Mar 06, 2019 9:03 am

Grenartia wrote:
Seangoli wrote:
Nah, nothing so sinister as possession usually. You are just being influenced and brainwashed by sinners into sinning, according to the nuts.


I'm pretty sure a significant portion of them unironically believe its demon possession.


To be fair, a Pride march is virtually indiscernible from the invasion of nightmarish creatures from the depths of hell :p
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Postby Auzkhia » Wed Mar 06, 2019 11:08 am

Grenartia wrote:
Maxine IV wrote:
So, having done a little more research, I'll say that I'm genderqueer.

Guess I posted that here just so I can say it somewhere.

Anyone have any rsources available for genderqueer people (as opposed to full trans people?)


I know this is gonna involve a lot of digging, but there should be plenty in the OP. Also, for what its worth, we're just as trans as binary trans people.

This, I'm transgender and genderqueer. It's important that trans resources include non-binary people, not just binary people (men and women).
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The Shining Purple Light wrote:Bigender/Genderqueer, whatever floats your boat!
Being trans isn't limited to being a trans woman or a trans man, being trans is being not in complete alignment with the gender you were assigned at birth.


Essentially, this.

Unless you were assigned nb or genderqueer at birth, you can be trans.
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Postby Talvezout » Wed Mar 06, 2019 11:34 am

This question has probably been asked a thousand times before so apologies for me for treading on old ground, but what is everyone's thoughts on people without dysphoria who say they are trans? Would you say they part of the trans community?

For clarification, I'm part of the LGBT+ spectrum, although I'm not trans.
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Postby Proctopeo » Wed Mar 06, 2019 11:45 am

Talvezout wrote:This question has probably been asked a thousand times before so apologies for me for treading on old ground, but what is everyone's thoughts on people without dysphoria who say they are trans? Would you say they part of the trans community?

For clarification, I'm part of the LGBT+ spectrum, although I'm not trans.

That's a pretty controversial topic, so this thread's gonna be kinda interesting for the next day or so.

Personally, as someone who's also part of GLBT+ but not trans (but has talked to transmedicalists and anti-transmedicalists alike, so it's not like I'm talking completely out of my ass) I think they're not.
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Postby Talvezout » Wed Mar 06, 2019 11:50 am

Proctopeo wrote:
Talvezout wrote:This question has probably been asked a thousand times before so apologies for me for treading on old ground, but what is everyone's thoughts on people without dysphoria who say they are trans? Would you say they part of the trans community?

For clarification, I'm part of the LGBT+ spectrum, although I'm not trans.

That's a pretty controversial topic, so this thread's gonna be kinda interesting for the next day or so.

Personally, as someone who's also part of GLBT+ but not trans (but has talked to transmedicalists and anti-transmedicalists alike, so it's not like I'm talking completely out of my ass) I think they're not.


Shoot, I don't want to start a slapfight here so I'm really sorry if it does

And yeah, from someone here who knows both transmeds and anti-transmeds, I think that they're perfectly fine in exploring their gender and their gender expression, but when it comes to the trans label, I honestly don't want to make the call because I haven't had any experience with gender dysphoria.
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Postby Hediacrana » Wed Mar 06, 2019 12:23 pm

As far as I'm aware, most of the regulars in this thread actually tend to agree that transmedicalism is bad.

Also, it's useful to distinguish between social and physical dysphoria; there are trans people who see little or no need to pursue medical changes, but who nevertheless do experience dysphoria due to being misgendered in social situations.
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Postby Auzkhia » Wed Mar 06, 2019 2:18 pm

Talvezout wrote:This question has probably been asked a thousand times before so apologies for me for treading on old ground, but what is everyone's thoughts on people without dysphoria who say they are trans? Would you say they part of the trans community?

For clarification, I'm part of the LGBT+ spectrum, although I'm not trans.

Gender dysphoria is not a prerequisite to be trans, not being your assigned gender at birth is the definition. Dysphoria is a bug, not a feature. A lot of people forget that gender euphoria and that was a more motivating factor in discovering my gender than dysphoria, I thought I wasn't dysphoric enough, that was the cost of transmedicalism.

I do plan to do one aspect of medical transitioning, but that doesn't make me trans, being something other male makes me trans.
Hediacrana wrote:As far as I'm aware, most of the regulars in this thread actually tend to agree that transmedicalism is bad.

Also, it's useful to distinguish between social and physical dysphoria; there are trans people who see little or no need to pursue medical changes, but who nevertheless do experience dysphoria due to being misgendered in social situations.

I say most of mine is social, I want to feminize my body a bit, but have no desire to pass as or be a binary gender. I like being transfeminine and non-binary and feel euphoria from my gender.
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Postby Hediacrana » Wed Mar 06, 2019 2:57 pm

Auzkhia wrote:I say most of mine is social, I want to feminize my body a bit, but have no desire to pass as or be a binary gender. I like being transfeminine and non-binary and feel euphoria from my gender.

Exactly the same here, honestly.
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Postby Khasinkonia » Wed Mar 06, 2019 6:14 pm

Hediacrana wrote:
Auzkhia wrote:I say most of mine is social, I want to feminize my body a bit, but have no desire to pass as or be a binary gender. I like being transfeminine and non-binary and feel euphoria from my gender.

Exactly the same here, honestly.

And then I’m entirely the opposite. I need the right body more than the right social stuff. I could pretty easily tolerate being a pretty girl who’s inexplicably referred to as he/him with my deadname used by most folks, while the opposite would be better than the partial recognition I have now, but I don’t really ever feel much euphoria over just being a girl.

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