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Internet Ginger 🏳️‍⚧️

Happy Trans Day of Visibility! Lesser known things about transness:

- you do not have to experience dysphoria to be trans
- you do not need to "know" that you are trans your entire life
- you do not need to change your body or presentation in any way to be trans
- transfeminine people on hormones grow breasts (among many other feminizing changes)
- transmasculine people on hormones grow facial hair (among many other masculinizing changes)
- transness is different from sexuality; just like anyone else, trans people can have any kind of sexuality
- there is so much joy in transitioning and being yourself
- there is no particular look or way of being as a trans person. Sometimes online discourse flattens and narrows the apparent
trans experience to stereotypes.
- it is never too late to transition!!

#tdov #tdov2026 #tdov26 #trans #transgender #transfem

Pic: me! A trans woman that transitioned at the age of 35

@internet_ginger
immaculate vibes 🤩

Natasha Ekara Mar 31

@internet_ginger I'm in love with this dress! It was made for you!

Late life transitioning here 🆙

Internet Ginger 🏳️‍⚧️Mar 31

@natasha thank you!! ✨ and yay for more later transitions! ❤️ it's so worth it at any age

FurryBeta Mar 31

@internet_ginger I startled my transition at 54!

Spiritual Annie ☮️Mar 31

@internet_ginger

I'm not trans, and the only thing in my life that even comes close to transitioning is the intense work I had to do to stop being a victim of incest and sexual assault and instead become a survivor. But I feel that doesn't even come close because I don't have to hide and government isn't trying to wipe me from existence.

I have great respect for the trans people I've come to know (my ex is trans masc). Y'all may not feel brave and inspiring, but you are.

@internet_ginger Can you recommend any resources for learning more about what being trans is really like / can encompass?

I don't want to be the millionth cis guy asking the same tired questions and coming across as willfully ignorant.

Internet Ginger 🏳️‍⚧️Mar 31

@malstrom are there any particular aspects you're interested in learning more about?

@internet_ginger Points 1 and 3 on your list, along with what gender-affirming healthcare entails / how it should work, are the main ones I feel ignorant about. It's hard to educate myself when there's so much controversy and disagreement about these topics online.

I want to stress that I'm pro-trans, that trans children need support, etc. I just don't have enough of an understanding to properly talk about these topics with other cis people, most of whom are equally ignorant at best.

@malstrom @internet_ginger there's a bunch of transfeminist tgirls i link in my bio that talk abt their exps as twoc. also check out https://tech.lgbt/@mndnau/116322958616272771 for some heavy books i rec for tdov 💖✨

mndnau (@[email protected])

@[email protected] for the tf exp: - detransition, baby: harrowing fiction painting the exps tw face daily & the consequences of transmisogyny - what it feels like for a girl: same sorta vibe for the tm exp: - calling my deadname home (ben avi-zeev): elder memoir on coming out later in life & reconciling past gender identity & exps w the present self. i cant rec this enough

LGBTQIA+ and Tech

Internet Ginger 🏳️‍⚧️Apr 1

@malstrom I think this resource is good, if not flawed (conflates dysphoria with transness, a medicalized take on being trans)

https://genderdysphoria.fyi/en

But in general I think it presents a lot of information well

The Gender Dysphoria Bible

A dive into the multitude of ways that gender dysphoria manifests and what it means to be transgender.

That's Gender Dysphoria, FYI

Internet Ginger 🏳️‍⚧️Apr 1

@malstrom to my first point: in *HINDSIGHT* I can now see that I was deep in dysphoria must of my life, but I couldn't see it or name it because that was just what being alive was like for me. What does a fish know of water?

So if experiencing dysphoria was a requirement to be trans, I might not have ever figured it out.

Much more salient for me was experiencing euphoria as I pursued transition. It was joy, not the absense of pain, that framed my experience.

Jaye 🍊Mar 31

@internet_ginger That dress—oh my word—you look amazing!

Irene (she/they, Sir/Mr.)Mar 31

@internet_ginger thank you so so much for sharing this. I needed to read it today. 🙏

Internet Ginger 🏳️‍⚧️Mar 31

@Irenetherogue I'm glad it landed for you 💜

bituur esztreym Mar 31

@internet_ginger

all these are fine remarks, you're right to shed light on them.

on the last one: there's no age:
i know a trans woman in her sixties who started transitioning at 57;
just as i know a trans boy who spoke out and began transitioning at 14, but knew it (first year(s) in awe and "that will go" but it didn't) since his 6-7 years of age..

@bituur_esztreym @internet_ginger pretty much all the trans folks im super close w started transitioning later in life (like 30-40+). lots of babyqueers i hear often have the stance that smth irrevocably changes abt urself that devalues late blooming (often in terms of passing via white beauty standards), which massively undervalues these ppls lived exps, and is simply untrue. like u say, there rlly isnt an age to transition by; trans folks r stunning regardless ✨

@internet_ginger stunning bestie! loving ur hair 💅✨