Post #2725453
2026-05-20 12:34 UTC
My mum didn’t understand why I was trans, because she’s cis-agender. She thinks being trans is some kind of obsession, and she scolded Me for talking about gender roles with My younger sister, who turned out to be trans. She doesn’t know that having an internal sense of gender affinity is normal. She thinks most cis people are like her.
The conflation of cis-agender people and cis-affinity people is dangerous. It’s harmed My family. We lost a young one to suicide. I’m certain it’s killed other people too. I’m gonna do everything I can to build a better set of tools for discussing gender and helping people find their own truth. Because ignorance costs lives.
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@SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-05-21 00:06
It sounds as though there’s too much to unpack here for a simple reply. Are you saying that sorting agender people into categories will help some of them develop empathy? Since you’re obviously highly motivated about this, are you campaigning for psychological research (or conducting it yourself) into how many people are agender, and how they treat people with a strong sense of gender? As an example, one of my exes had a highly autistic son. She went and did a degree in psychology and then became a charity worker that helped autistic people who need living assistance. You could do something like that, but in trans support,if you want to make the world a better place in memory of your sibling.