Evie 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈⚢💍Nov 29, 2022

Hey! #TransMastodon (#Transtodon???)  

How about we pool our combined knowledge & experience to bust some common myths about #transitioning?

Please post details of any myths you can bust to help others in the community, including any unhatched/hatching eggs 🥚

#trans #LGBTQIA #transition #HRT

Show threadMx. Alba  Nov 30, 2022
@SleepyCatten Some people are "worried" because it looks like more and more kids are becoming trans and/or non-binary nowadays. But the simple answer is: it used to be much more repressed. The same thing happened when schools stopped forcing kids to write with their right hand. "Suddenly" more and more kids were lefthanded. But eventually it hit a plateau at 9-10%. It's not that there weren't any lefthanded kids before - they were forced into invisibility.
Show threadMTRNord (they/them)
@MxAlba @SleepyCatten and when it gets more secure in countries the number will likely increase even more. Its just extremely dangerous in some countries. (to me even mind blowing that this is the case...)
Nov 30, 2022 at 5:49pmWeb
Show threadPhoenixSerenityNov 30, 2022
@MTRNord @MxAlba @SleepyCatten Coming out in some countries ends up with the trans person's death. I know ppl overseas who hide their trans & non-binary identities because it's too dangerous to be public with their real selves.
Show threadAvery Dame-GriffNov 30, 2022

@MTRNord @MxAlba @SleepyCatten

Also, the Internet made it possible for trans youth to easily communicate with each other. Before, trans youth often had limited contact with other folks like them unless they had access to a safe physical space. (I wrote about this last year: https://theconversation.com/how-the-bulletin-board-systems-email-lists-and-geocities-pages-of-the-early-internet-created-a-place-for-trans-youth-to-find-one-another-and-explore-coming-out-159681)

How the bulletin board systems, email lists and Geocities pages of the early internet created a place for trans youth to find one another and explore coming out

For trans youth who couldn’t be themselves in real life, the internet became a place for connection and self-expression.

The Conversation
Show threadMx. Alba  Nov 30, 2022
@apdamegriff @MTRNord @SleepyCatten Enby/trans facebook groups are LIIIIIFE
Show threadEvie 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈⚢💍Nov 30, 2022

@MxAlba @apdamegriff @MTRNord *shudders at the thought of Bacefook* 😖

I'm glad it's helped bring people together though