Serious post time: Today, I'd love visibility for the folks our trans community itself usually refuse to acknowledge.
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Serious post time: Today, I'd love visibility for the folks our trans community itself usually refuse to acknowledge.
As someone who got bottom surgery that ended up being a disaster, who still is trans, who still supports folks getting surgery? I want to remind people that I was forced out of most of my online spaces and communities when discussing it. I was "scaring people" or "ruining the mood" and people who were once friends ostracized me when I desperately needed support more than ever. It was made clear I am unwelcome in a lot of spaces, purely because my story of transition was not the happy and easy kind that every seems to identify with.
Folks like me? We have to hide in extremely private chat rooms because even trans people don't want to think about how we exist or to help us. Some even attack us, claim we're anti trans just for existing.
May all trans people, even those with messier stories of transition, be visible today. May trans people stop leaving portions of their own behind, refusing to look them in the eye.
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Serious post time: Today, I'd love visibility for the folks our trans community itself usually refuse to acknowledge.
As someone who got bottom surgery that ended up being a disaster, who still is trans, who still supports folks getting surgery? I want to remind people that I was forced out of most of my online spaces and communities when discussing it. I was "scaring people" or "ruining the mood" and people who were once friends ostracized me when I desperately needed support more than ever. It was made clear I am unwelcome in a lot of spaces, purely because my story of transition was not the happy and easy kind that every seems to identify with.
Folks like me? We have to hide in extremely private chat rooms because even trans people don't want to think about how we exist or to help us. Some even attack us, claim we're anti trans just for existing.
May all trans people, even those with messier stories of transition, be visible today. May trans people stop leaving portions of their own behind, refusing to look them in the eye.
@literalgrill surgery is surgery. And surgery sucks and sometimes goes bad and I'm sorry that happened to you, whatever caused it, and the lack of support that followed. A dogma of sunshine and rainbows and silencing imperfect experiences is still playing exactly into the bigots' double standards.
Maybe a weird comparison, but it's like if parents who had given birth talked candidly about their sometimes life-altering birth injuries or how dangerous or difficult their pregnancies were, and other parents replied "oh so you're saying that you don't love your kids."
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