That’s fair, that’s part of the reason I kinda dislike memes like this. I’m sure some people have had an easy transition, but myself and a lot of trans people I know have had very difficult ones. I lost a parent over it, which resulted in some time spent very housing insecure in college. I’ve faced professional and personal discrimination. It’s been hard.
And all that matters because it provides serious context to the statement that transitioning was the best decision I ever made. After years of struggling it was the necessary first piece to getting my life together, because it made me able to actually be present in my life and made me not too depressed to do things like study, apply for jobs, and form friendships with new people. It gave me a life worth living at a cost that was nebulous and felt insurmountable at the time I agreed to it.
I much prefer outreach in the form of pointing out that dysphoria doesn’t go away without transitioning and by depicting the reality of happy trans people, even those of us who’ve been disowned.
Problems with IRL:
2 My family of origin is ethnic Chinese… very anti trans, bigoted af, they’ll call me a “變態” (“pervert”, “sick-minded person”, or something like that)
I want be BORN as a girl, transitioning is dangerous af.
That’s fair, that’s part of the reason I kinda dislike memes like this. I’m sure some people have had an easy transition, but myself and a lot of trans people I know have had very difficult ones. I lost a parent over it, which resulted in some time spent very housing insecure in college. I’ve faced professional and personal discrimination. It’s been hard.
And all that matters because it provides serious context to the statement that transitioning was the best decision I ever made. After years of struggling it was the necessary first piece to getting my life together, because it made me able to actually be present in my life and made me not too depressed to do things like study, apply for jobs, and form friendships with new people. It gave me a life worth living at a cost that was nebulous and felt insurmountable at the time I agreed to it.
I much prefer outreach in the form of pointing out that dysphoria doesn’t go away without transitioning and by depicting the reality of happy trans people, even those of us who’ve been disowned.
Do it while on vacation in Montreal during pride. You don’t have to transition to have some fun on occasion. 🤗