Community Updates:
Received an excellent suggestion from @Melon that we should do week long megathreads because of low traffic in this community, so here we go.
cw: dysphoria
i'm a 20yo trans girl, pre-everything—don't think i'll be able to transition to any degree until i'm on my own health insurance, which won't be for another few years. i'm really paranoid that it'll be Too Late and my physical transition will be diminished because i waited so long, and i'll always look halfway like a man and never escape my dysphoria. doesn't help that i have pretty bad body hair. can anyone let me know if i'm psyching myself out or if this is a reasonable fear to have? is it too late for me already? sorry if this is a dumb question, i've never really been able to talk to anyone about this before.
that's really good advice, thanks. sometimes it's easy to forget how much power i have to make myself feel better now, without the need for a prescription etc. good point about the later starters, too. cheers, feeling a bit more hopeful.
Have you checked out the post about mutual-aid for hormones and whatnot? Take a look at the bottom of the sidebar, if you haven't already. :)
Any other enbies feel weird in women & enby places? I'm AFAB and 100% femme-passing and yet i still feel like i'm intruding :pensive face:
I think it's that, and also that having a space be defined by gender feels kind of antithetical to being nonbinary. Don't get me wrong, i still think it's great to provide safe women only spaces and even same for men like the positive masculinity subs on reddit. But there's also something to the thing where if you group nonbinary people with women, you're also grouping them away from men at the same time, when really they should be nonbinary people should be grouped with both and neither or just be their own thing.
I don't really know how to reconcile this, but i just came out as nonbinary this year so i'm still working through gender feels. IDK. Safe spaces are good, gender is a fucc. Maybe when they add the requested positive masculinity sub at some point they can make sure to make it enby inclusive. Or if we get really gigantic, a straight up enby/nonconforming sub where we can shitpost about destroying gender lol
Gender: it's there if you want it, it's there if you don't
Trying to read Leslie Feinberg this week but John Kerry spammers are annoying as shit and disrupt my flow. >:(
