/lgbt/ - LGBT

That is, the idea that being trans is in some way caused by socialization and has no physiological component (ie brain differences, hormonal abnormalities, etc) to it at all. I keep seeing other lefty people, both trans and cis, repeat this. I'm not even going to get into all the evidence that points towards a physiological origin because my real point is that I honestly find the idea just really invalidating and kind of offensive. It's as if they're saying my dysphoria isn't real, that transness is equivalent to being a fashion choice and I just need to get over it or find a more accepting community or whatever instead of transition being a medical necessity.

okay so i don't even know what but i guess i'll ask people here about this. i'm afab but have gender dysphoria that i've only recently became aware of, but transitioning doesn't really seem to be the best option for me. ik the people on this board will try to convince me otherwise but i'm short as hell, very feminine body, etc. i don't understand why people think transition is either the best thing in the world for people with gender dysphoria or the moral equivalent to 9/11, like i really feel whether transition is good for someone comes down to considering 1. will you pass and 2. will you be happy even if you don't pass. and if the answer to both of these is "no" then you probably shouldn't transition. idk!

Ka Daisy, a NPA guerilla and trans woman, was martyred after a confrontation with 5 battalions in Barangay Tapi on April 27th. She was known for teaching literacy and math to members of her squad who were uneducated and always carrying a makeup kit in her guerilla supplies.

"As an LGBT youth our role is important in advancing revolution. to change society's views we must change society herself"

rest in power to one of our own!

Asking as a transhumanist, I find it incredibly hard to find reliable resources on how it is in the PRC, and since the Chinese internet is fairly insular and I don't speak Chinese I don't really get the opportunity to talk with queer people from China much. I am aware they very much have their own subcultures and would like to learn about them if anyone has anywhere to point me.

WAHHHH I just wanna be a faggy little deerboy but I’m trapped in this dumb big boy body and it’s so annoying. i just want to be a cute little bisexual dear who beautiful women of all genders fawn (heh) over but instead I have this!!!! I thought I was trans for so long but I think I’m just nb and annoyed by my boy body but doing girl stuf and transitioning made the confusion worse. AHHH!!!!!

Im built too boyish for my outside to match my inside AHHH

anyone else born in the gheto finds it hard to reconsile their desire to be violent and desire to be feminine?
i'm drunk so bear with me, i was born and raised by parents who got raised in pretty fucked up backgrounds, grandpa had multiple families and dad has been threatened with guns multiple times, they managed to stay off the streets because they're just fucking excellent at all they do.
dad was the best student maybe ever, and still got his score lowered by teachers who hated him but just couldn't deny him at least a near perfect grade.
mom was a bit harder, i can't think of something that didn't happen to her, she has brothers she doesn't even know, grandpa was an asshole when young, she and her brothers lived in a house they were occupying under shaky legal grounds up to this day.

and i've had a few things, they tried to keep me off the street, quite literally i wasn't allowed outside til i was like 7
and since then a lot of shit happened

up to the point where i'm bordering on lumpen and i can't fucking deal with knowing i was meant to be a criminal, i picked up the habits and i was good at surviving but i didn't want to worry my parents.

and now i'm just here still letting them down, couldn't even join the military because i'm a transhumanist

i guess this is motly a trans issue but what have you sacrificed for being yourself?

i feel so at the edge and at the same time right at the center of the hurricane

the idea that transness is inherently bourgeois comes from a very simple assumption: an imaginary of the working class as not having desires, cultures, history, etc, only austere base needs, completely alien to any "bourgeois excesses"

despite the supposed third-worldist bent many of you claim to have, this exactly how social workers and managers have framed and attempted to reconstruct the working class, as docile, administerable subjects, and a crucial part of how the labour aristocracy was developed

this goes in tandem with the historically paternalist position in regards to sex workers, any political agency denied a priori, they can only exist as passive objects to be administered by the state until they are integrated into "proper" circuits of social reproduction

Do the thoughts of dysphoria ever go away? I still don't know what triggers it. It's like every time I think I'm attracted to men I feel like my brain somehow flips in the other direction. Maybe I'm not bi and just a dyke? I'm in a complicated relationship with a man which doesn't make things better. I don't consider myself ftm, just a dysphoric woman.

There’s so many things that seemingly make it impossible for me to start hrt.

I have an extreme phobia of needles. It’s genuinely ruining my life. I know that there’s other forms of hrt that aren’t injections, but either way I would still need to use a needle on myself to do blood tests.

And then there’s the effects hrt has on the genitals. I would love every effect of hrt if it wasn’t for the effects it has on genitalia. I know using it will prevent atrophy, but it still won’t prevent my balls from shriveling up and the dck from shrinking. I don’t have bottom dysphoria and my genitals are one of the few parts of my body that I don’t actively hate.

And lastly, I’m afraid I’ll miss out on the experiwnce of being a gay guy. I’ve never been in a relationship as a man, but mlm relationships seem to be much more loving and deeper than straight relationships are. I’m scared I’ll never experience true love with a straight man if I transitioned to being a woman. (Especially since many men who want to date trans women are just chasers)

All of this shit just piles up to make me feel too much fear and anxiety to start hrt. I don’t know what to do

My mom told me that I could go to a conversion therapist or she'd leave me and my dad (who also isn't supportive). I accepted because I don't want to get on the bad side of my entire family. Anyways, do any of you have any tips for getting through conversion therapy?