Mallie Sinn21h ago

TRANS PEOPLE

Totally unscientific survey of transition demographics on the fediverse, for transgender, non-binary, and gender diverse people.

What year did you either come out, begin transition, and/or have your egg crack?

2023 - present
2020 - 2022
2016 - 2019
2015 or earlier
Poll ends at .
Show threadMel20h ago
@mallory_sinn I started transition and hormones in 2014.
Show threadMallie Sinn20h ago
@Melezioh I had actually wanted to do one more option for 2010 - 2015 because I think that’s another distinct cohort (but the poll only allowed me 4 options here). That’s the cohort a lot of my favorite trans writers and artists come from, and it marked a change where trans people started socially hanging out and going out together more, from what I understand. It’s a period I think a lot of newer trans folks don’t understand as being so pivotal to where our community is now.
Show threadNeville Park

@mallory_sinn @Melezioh *fucking dies of old age*

as a 2010–2015-er, the trans writers & artists who were most formative to me came out in, like, the 70s and 80s?

I feel like the 2010s were really kind of a turning point though. e. g. trans lit getting mainstream attention

Mar 25 at 6:36pmWeb
Show threadMallie Sinn16h ago

@nev @Melezioh hehe, sorry to make folks feel old. And yeah, I of course enjoy a lot of the folks from then too (Leslie Feinberg, Kate Bornstein, Julia Serano, Susan Stryker, etc), but I was talking mainly about folks like Casey Plett, Torrey Peters, and Laura Jane Grace, who were so pivotal to me. Exactly that Trans Lit cohort you mentioned. That, and key people on a trans twitter and in person like Caitlin Spice, Mags, and others.

There were some really big changes in trans subcultures and communities that I think a lot of people transitioning post-2020 are completely unaware of. Like…no one was around for the discourse of Detransition, Baby and letting the cis know about trans sexuality, or the Baeddels or any of that kind of stuff.