Internet Ginger 🏳️‍⚧️Mar 31

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

Show threadMalstrøm 🧉Mar 31

@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.

Show threadInternet Ginger 🏳️‍⚧️Mar 31
@malstrom are there any particular aspects you're interested in learning more about?
Show threadMalstrøm 🧉

@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.

Mar 31 at 6:28pmWeb
Show threadmndnauApr 1
@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

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Show threadInternet 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
Show threadInternet 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.