It's been a while since we've had a general discussions thread, and with the holiday season ramping up, I imagine a lot of us are feeling very stressed and worn out.
Spending time with family members is always a time, to say the least. Getting my family to respect my partner's they/them pronouns has been frustrating and exhausting. It enfuriates me that they can understand and respect my pronouns, but only because I'm binary gendered. Getting very sick of deconstructing the "them is multiple people" argument, as well as the "I'm still a lesbian even though my partner is transmasc non-binary" conversation. 😓
But aside from that, I'm actually excited about the holidays this year. And I hope everyone has something to look forward to, time with friends and family who love and accept us. We all deserve love, compassion, and acceptance, and to be able to enjoy a time of year that should be representative of all those things.
This space is 100% open and welcoming of venting, frustration, whatever you want to post here. And if you see cishet people disrupting you, disrupting the community, invalidating your feelings or opinions please report them and we will deal with them accordingly. I'm not handing out bans to every cis person who has an opinion on anything here, but this is not a space for cisgender people. If you're reading this and you're cisgender, you are welcome to post and contribute here. By all means, do so. But keep in mind that this space is not for you. You are a visitor in this community. How we feel, how we struggle, the experiences we as transfeminine people have come first every single time. I won't change that. And if you're going to participate here, you need to abide by that.
I just wanted to get that out of the way because occasionally we get an influx of people from other parts of the fediverse here and they are welcome but I continue to see cisgender experiences being used to invalidate transgender ones. And that's going to be a focus of mine going forward.
What are your thoughts on this time of year? What's been your experiences so far with family, the good and the bad? Let's all support each other through this. And what are your thoughts on how this community has been over the last few months? I'd love to hear it if anyone had any suggestions or thoughts on how our community has been operating.
My week is going pretty well so far. I have a week off from work starting in a few days, so I’m excited for that. I really want to go on a hiking trip to the California desert, but it seems everyone in my social circle is busy during my break. So I’m debating whether I should go on the trip by myself, or wait another month or two to see if we can match free days sometime.
As for my transition, yesterday was my shot day. Since the beginning of my transition, I’ve been taking estradiol pills from an online pharmacy, but I recently decided to switch to Estradiol Undecylate injections from Lena because they’re way cheaper, and people say injections are much more effective. Last month was my first injection, and yesterday was my second. Now that I know what to expect when injecting myself, my shot yesterday was much less scary than the first time. I’ve also started feeling a lot of subtle aching in my breasts, and it seems my face might be feminizing a bit more, so I’m really excited.