Trans Megathread for the Week of August 12th, 2024 - August 18th, 2024
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Let's have another good week everyone
Just had an interaction at work where a guy initially thought I was a dude and then corrected himself by asking for my pronouns. I am at that wierd middle part of of transition where being correctly gendered is like a coin flip (weighted against my favor unfortunately)
He then apologized if I felt like I wasn't seen and that gendering people correctly is important to him.
Need more allies like him. Fuck, I'm crying a little now.
Big news!! I won a scholarship today!!!! And I got my loan NoA and it's 2k higher than I expected!!!! I am now able to pay for my entire coming year of tuition and rent, and my jobs (which are already locked in barring one that is basically locked in) will be enough to cover food and then some!!!!!!!! I might even maybe be able to afford that big $500 order of indie chinese lolitas I've been wishlisting sometime before Christmas!!!!!!!!!!
I wish I had more to talk about these days. I guess when you hit 2 years into transition, the exciting stuff is ongoing or has already occurred. Not much to get super excited about except the slow, gradual transition that's not so fast like breasts or what have you. Skin's smooth. Breasts, heaving. Body hair, thinned. Voice, trained. Vagina, gotten. Fat, redistributed/ing. Idk, I feel out of place here nowadays. Kinda sucks. Guess I could talk about top surgery and how it's going to even out my breasts? Seems like a boring thing to drone on about.
EDIT: I just realized this post can be considered humble bragging. I swear to the gods I just wanted to make a post about how I can't really relate to a lot of you anymore :\
Was in the deep, deep south yesterday. The kinda place with like 5k population, no major cities for 2+ hours, no cell signals. Stopped at a gas station to refuel, piss, and get some snacks for the road. Standing in line waiting to pay, and this old woman starts slowly walking towards me. I didn't know what was about to happen but she gets really close to me and smiles and says, "I love your shirt. I do." and then smiles again and nods and I'm trying not to tear up, dawg. I paid for my stuff smiling and then drove away pretty happy.
I was wearing this shirt
Idk man, shit is alright sometimes
"Living in sin" makes it sound so much more lascivious and dirty than it is. Like sure Aunt Germaine, the wife and I were just hanging out cuddling and watching slop and eating cookies, but sure, we were fucking LIVING IN SIN!! OH, HOW DEBAUCHED, THE UTTER INDECENCY, A 24/7 LIFE OF LECHEROUS LESBIANISM!!!!!
Chat is it misogyny if within your family you (not a woman but consistently gendered as one) and your mom are always expected to do the cooking to the point where your brother and your dad don't know how to cook. Oh and also they're always going out with their friends (obviously not COVID-safely) while you have to work ~1 hour a day (not every day but most days) for a meal that they might not even end up eating but expect to have on the table anyways. Oh and also there is not really any way to shorten that cooking time because cooking a full Chinese family-style meal is the expectation and there's no real way to get out of that. Is this that Feminism 101 concept of "invisible labor" that we like to talk about. Because I feel like in my family I'm the only person who sees this and I don't dare bring it up because if I do I'll be made to feel ridiculous.
I finally did an injection for the first time. I did it through the stomach - I got most of it in there, but I chickened out at the last second because it started feeling tingly and I panicked. In hindsight, it was probably the alcohol causing a reaction, which is probably fine.
You can probably tell by reading my other posts that I'm very paranoid about something going wrong, which didn't help, because I got so nervous after doing it that it got harder to breathe, which made me think something went wrong... But after a few hours, I'm pretty sure it went well. Now I just have to hope it works, because it's really out of my hands now.
My secret for posting? I wait until I have a good day, and I am exhausted enough to the point where I don't have enough brainpower to question myself or second-guess my decision. Sometimes I feel like I act better when I'm tired, I probably mask way too goddamn much for my own good. The worst part about it is that I can't really control it 😂🤣😭.
I have to go to the mechanic and i realllly dont want to
So instead ill go tomorrow i guess
and pray nothing falls off the car and make me (joking, the car is not that bad, it just needs some help, im not driving on highways, and am being safe)I’m lying awake in my bed wondering why software wizards don’t actually have any wizards in them. Seriously, wtf. Instead of some crappy progress bar, wouldn’t you rather have a little wizard in your computer that chants a spell in front of a crystal ball and magically summons software for you? I know I would. How could they just lie to us like that.
I love (most of (one is terrrrriiibllee and i want her gone)) my housemates
Yes theyre s but they do genuinely care about others and want to make life better for everyone. Were open with each other and have become good friendsI just keep being the voice of " Kamala and Walz are still politicians, they dont care about the underclasses. Their policies have been shitty in these ways [enumeration]". And try to frame things in a way theyll understand. Theyre not
which is more than I can say for a lot of other self proclaimed leftists ive talked with.Trans mega news mega crossover:
‘We have way more power than they think’: Advocates host Trans Folks for Harris Zoom call
More than 1,000 people attend Trans Folks for Harris Zoom call.