December 2010
17 posts
Watching television shows with queer/trans...
Submitted by daelhorhota.
Loving Hello Kitty, playing with G.I. Joe dolls...
Submitted by firelily.
My dad abandoning my family before I was born did...
Submitted by shutupiamspeakingwithghosts.
Being friends with my brother did not make me...
Submitted by willbegreat.
Wanting to be straight didn't make me trans.
Especially since I’m proudly pansexual.
Submitted by Trevor (trevor.mangelsdorf@gmail.com).
Being Asexual Did Not Make Me Trans
Being asexual also did not make me neutrois. It certainly didn’t make me genderless, as I’m not (although some neutrois consider themselves genderless).
Being trans also didn’t make me asexual. I’m asexual. I’d be asexual if I had been born in the “right” body. There is no cause/effect there.
Submitted by themself.
My mother being an abusive, stifling prick did not...
it just made it harder to find myself in the trauma
Submitted by thenarius.
Having trans friends did not make me trans.
It did, however, mean that I had a great support group to turn to when I came out, as they are going through it too and our cis-friends have already learned a lot about trans-people.
Submitted by jasearo.
Watching and playing Batman as a kid did not make...
Unfortunately, my child psychologist had a part of her brain missing.
Submitted by Jon.
Reading stuffthatdidnotmakemetrans did not make me...
Submitted by jolarti.
An isolation chamber with Barbie dolls will not...
However… It would be an interesting experiment.
Submitted by jolarti.
(Note from Enoch: actually, that experiment sounds horrifying)
Hating my body did not make me trans.
Being trans made me hate my body even more than I would have anyway. I wish people could understand why I can’t just “learn to accept myself.”
Submitted anonymously.
Having a form of Aspergers did not make me trans.
And no, my social exclusion did not force me into queer support groups where I felt “comfortable” and subsequently “became trans”.
Submitted by blackenedbutterfly.
Reading My Gender Workbook did not make me trans.
Why do you think I was reading it in the first place?!
Submitted by survival2019.
Coming from a family of large personalities did...
Submitted by Enoch (boygirlboigrrrl)
looking better in men's clothing than women's did...
it just made me bad-ass.
Submitted by imthatboi.
Loving my father's ties as a child did not make me...
it made me fashionable.
Submitted by bism-ishazz.