i'm planning on starting hrt next year, but i don't know how to figure out whether or not i'm making a big mistake. i have trans thoughts or whatever and i am dysphoric, but most of my dysphoria is social and its more like a sense of grief and alienation than it is like a virulent hatred for my male body or whatever. im not attracted to men and i'm not super effeminate like in my personality. i genuinely have no idea why i want to transition or take hrt in like a tangible sense, but at the same time like i feel like i am not the gender i'm supposed to be and this life isn't mine like i feel a profound sense of grief when i think about what has been taken away from me if that makes any sense.
I would only be trans if turning to a robot was an option
>>831maybe try drag king/drag queen or contracting professional makeup artists and fashionistas. it will all be artistic illusions but if you make an excuse to do it, e.g. an event or party, it might be worth a shot if the end result is high quality
>>844>helpful alternativego do it somewhere else
>>846>you know you can just not click on /lgbt/well i
usually use the overboard, but i guess i'll have to get used to
not using it.
>which I think is a good thingi disagree
>>854you can't just look at a significant subset of people dissatisfied enough with male homosociality and the cultural perception of males in general to transhumanist out and go
>uhmmm… all of them are mentally ill retards!just because you're such a well adjusted good boy determined to spread your daddies seed doesn't mean everyone else is
>>855>you can't just look at a significant subset of people dissatisfied enough with male homosociality and the cultural perception of males in general to transhumanist out and gowho are you talking to??? i did not do that, i did not say that
>just because you're such a well adjusted good boy determined to spread your daddies seed doesn't mean everyone else isyou have some serious complex
>>858gender is the social form the enforcement of sex roles creates. while its particular role is an outgrowth of biology and its appropriation in patriarchal reproduction, in the last instance it is a separate category. for example a passing trans woman may be able to live like a cis woman would, because her appearance and mannerisms match the moving target of female gender presentation. consequently the sexualized violence statistics show both groups to be on par, not because "muh estrogen" but because gender exists in a social context implicitly encouraging males to take advantage of women in order to enforce it. in this sense trans people kind of short-circuit sex-based oppression, yet then again they are usually heavily shamed for the mere act of transgressing gender norms.
the thing to note is that, like the commodity form, gender is a component of a self-reproducing system of social organization. in the case of gender however it affects people a lot more psychologically, see the freudian compulsions caused by the nuclear family or the things in transfems that are actually mental illness.
>>861repeat after me:
Societal relations are material forces!is having even a basic understanding of marx asking to much of posters on this nominally marxist board?
>>831>and its more like a sense of grief and alienation than it is like a virulent hatred for my male body or whateverit doesnt need to be outright hatred
dysphoria means negative feeling in general
>im not attracted to men and i'm not super effeminate like in my personalityyou can still be a trans woman with these qualities, lol
>>1066hrt isn't going to kill you, if you don't like it stop taking it, other wise do.
there is no such thing as "actually trans" so do nothing less than exactly as you please.
>>1083I thought commies were into uniformity and absolute equality, like north korea is. though, variations in appearance that does not counter the perceived sameness of everyone
(such as being perceived as equal economically/socially/etc and not having the possibility of looking at others as if they're inferiors or being looked at that way) shouldn't be of concern. if everyone is equal, or perceived as equal even with alternative appearances(that aren't out of place or against the hegemonic
design language), then technically prejudice wouldn't exist.
>>1085This isn't what communism is about. In communism the subjective differences between individuals are acknowledged. You literally can't make everyone the same without abolishing the individual, which was never a goal of communists. People are born with different abilities, different bodies, and a different base that they grow from basically, and you can't just flat that out with current technology. There has never been a push for absolute equality. This idea of communism making everyone 'the same' is just propaganda.
This part of Marxism is heavily rooted in liberalism and I wonder if we can surpas it. I don't think it would be a bad world where true equality has been established and the individual abolished. In fact this would likely be a further economic stage post-communism. But this vague goal of total equality is not something communism is set to achieve.
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