Post #1236486
2026-03-27 11:05 UTC
Replies (9)
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@moriel@chaosfem.tw 2026-03-27 11:23
@Tattie i am bookmarking this thread. This is precisely on target. Very well said!
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@jrdepriest@infosec.exchange 2026-03-27 11:54
@Tattie in fact, I'm sharing a Masto Reader link to this thread on my woke family Signal chat so they can understand what dysphoria is like since it is hard to explain and you have done so in an almost poetic way.
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@adele@social.treehouse.systems 2026-03-27 12:33
@Tattie elegantly said and true.
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@xorlou@lgbtqia.space 2026-03-27 14:02
@Tattie thanks for writing this, it very much mirrors my own experience. I tried so hard to avoid transitioning. I lived as a femme out gay man for over a decade. I'm still just at the early stages and still terrified, but I've reached the end of the road of alternative options. We shouldn't have to rigorously justify our own existence, it's just unreasonable to expect this. There probably isn't a rational explanation for being trans, it's just life and it unfolds the way it does. Sending all my love 💕
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@brooke@bikeshed.vibber.net 2026-03-27 16:11
@Tattie <3 <3 <3
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@Cassandra_Complex@beige.party 2026-03-27 19:10
@Tattie A few people already said similar, but plenty of social sciences have already done all that work of defining gender so we shouldn't have to. It's not that transphobes can't find the information, it's that they don't care to listen to it anyway because it doesn't validate their own hateful beliefs. It'd also help if they stopped burning our studies, books, and science centers down then pretending it's a new idea to be a transgender person.
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@sternentau@don.linxx.net 2026-03-27 19:13
@Tattie 💜
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@Azuaron@cyberpunk.lol 2026-03-28 03:00
@Tattie I'm a cis guy. I've always been in favor of trans rights since I learned trans people were a thing, but I did spend a number of years not really getting why someone would be trans. Then one day I just had the thought, "What if I woke up tomorrow with a female body?" And after the obvious jokes that immediately came to mind, I actually thought about being stuck in the wrong body, unable to get back, and I had to stop because I almost gave myself a panic attack. I'm an on-again-off-again recreational author, so I frequently find myself in unusual thought experiments. Which is to say, I hadn't intended to have a moment of profound empathy for trans people, but as soon as I calmed down I thought, Oh, this must be how a lot of trans people feel all time. All of that to say: I see you. It's real. I think most cis people, if they put just a few minutes into the activity, would be forced to admit that if they were suddenly body swapped, they'd be desperate to get back to their correct body. Most cis people just never seriously confront the thought.
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@vervain@sunny.garden 2026-03-30 06:23
@Tattie Thank you for sharing this. It is beautiful. I've been thinking So Much about the thing where authoritarian ppl don't allow lived experience to have meaning, when it comes from ppl they consider beneath them. It enrages me.