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Follow all blahaj.zone rules
All posts must be trans-related. Other queer-related posts go to c/lgbtq.
Don't post negative, depressing news articles about trans issues unless there is a call to action or a way to help.

Resources:

Best resource: https://github.com/cvyl/awesome-transgender Site with links to resources for just about anything.

Trevor Project: crisis mental health services for LGBTQ people, lots of helpful information and resources: https://www.thetrevorproject.org/

The Gender Dysphoria Bible: useful info on various aspects of gender dysphoria: https://genderdysphoria.fyi/en

StainedGlassWoman: Various useful essays on trans topics: https://stainedglasswoman.substack.com/

Trans resources: https://trans-resources.info/

[USA] Resources for trans people in the South: https://southernequality.org/resources/transinthesouth/#provider-map

[USA] Report discrimination: https://action.aclu.org/legal-intake/report-lgbtqhiv-discrimination

[USA] Keep track on trans legislation and news: https://www.erininthemorning.com/

[GERMANY] Bundesverband Trans: Find medical trans resources: https://www.bundesverband-trans.de/publikationen/leitfaden-fuer-behandlungssuchende/

[GERMANY] Trans DB: Insurance information (may be outdated): https://transdb.de/

[GERMANY] Deutsche Gesellschaft für Transidentität und Intersexualität: They have contact information for their advice centers and some general information for trans and intersex people. They also do activism: dgti.org

*this is a work in progress, and these resources are courtesy of users like you! if you have a resource that helped you out in your trans journey, comment below in the pinned post and I'll add here to pass it on

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I finally watched The Incel to Trans Pipeline and Inside Mari. Don't be put off like I was by the title: it's good. Anyway, I was sufficiently interested to pick up the manga second-hand and read through it at the weekend.

Inside Mari spoilers

Even knowing the outline from watching the video above, it's a mindfuck and pretty uncomfortable reading. I loved it though. Then I tried to figure out who I identified with.

First, obviously, on the surface it's about a man who ends up in the body of a girl, which I guess to an outsider looks kinda like the transfem experience, but actually almost the reverse.

Then, aha! I figure: I'm actually like Mari -- I thought I was a man, but let go of that figured out who I want to be in the end. (It surprised me at first that we ended up with Mari and not Fumiko, but on reflection I think that was the right choice). But no, that's not quite right either.

Then I read the author's note right at the end. Why does this story have to be about me anyway? There may be elements I relate to, but ultimately I am who I am, and there's no need to try to fit into any particular box.

Except now my internal "goals" setting seems to have got stuck on "high-school girl" and I'm feeling horribly dysphoric. Gotta learn not to compare myself to others...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

watched it after your recommendation, wanted to cry afterwards

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

Same. It's so weird after decades of feeling... wrong... to see someone describing exactly what it's like.