January 2011
18 posts
My mum leaving when I was six did not make me...
The awesome relationship I’ve developed with her helped me come out, though.
Submitted by whatfreshhellisthis.
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Coming from a broken home did not make me trans
it just made it more difficult coming out to my conservative christian foster parents.
Submitted by crinklecutcrisps.
Going to an all-girl's boarding school did not...
It did, however, mean that I was outcast from everyone and accused of lesbianism due to my masculine behaviour, forcing me to spend years acting like a girl just to be accepted. Did it work? Nope. It just made it harder for me in the long run when I started living as male after school, my family making comments like “but you used to be so feminine!”
Submitted by gonzenheim.
Taking a Transgender Politics class DID NOT make...
p.s.
i’m sorry dad, but your logic is wrong.
Submitted anonymously.
My grandmother insulting me when I wore things...
Submitted by squidbait.
MY MOTHER DRESSING ME ALL IN BLUE WHEN I WAS A...
Nor did her allowing me to choose my own clothes from the age of two. Why does it never occur to anyone that there may have been a reason I dressed myself so androgynously as a toddler?
Submitted by Theo (blueeyedphilosopher@hotmail.co.uk).
BEING A MEMBER OF A MULTIPLE SYSTEM DID NOT MAKE...
Having other people in my head (some of whom have been my coercively assigned birth gender) and identifying as my gender does not mean I’m not “the real person”. I am not an “alter” a “personality” or a “demon”, I am a man who was coercively assigned female at birth - I’m trans. And I would be even if there was only one person here.
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BEING INFAUTUATED WITH TUXEDO MASK AS A KID DID...
It did make me appreciate roses.
Submitted by brillianthans.
My father being completely absent in my childhood...
Submitted by thewintercynic.
Retreating into the realm of imagination where I...
It only made growing up in the wrong body somewhat bearable, until I’d wake up and there I was, in my family’s conservative, traditional Catholic role as the quiet moody “girl” who isolated “herself” because “she was PMSing”.
Submitted by meatloafmonster.
Being abused as a kid did not make me trans.
Neither did it make me asexual. All it has done is allowed mental health ‘professionals’ (and I use the term loosely) to doubt my neutrois identity and asexuality and mess me about regarding treatment.
Submitted by ghosts-in-this-machine.
My Mother's Second-Wave Feminist Bigotry Did Not...
It does however make it that much harder to live with her.
Submitted anonymously.
Being autistic did not make me trans.
Submitted by laruserouge.
My mother's emotional psychological and physical...
It does make it harder for people to take me seriously though, as I am “mentally ill” and “unstable”, I just don’t understand why you think that’s a bad thing.
Submitted anonymously.
Thinking it'd be cool to be able to write my name...
Submitted anonymously.
Seeing documentaries about trans people on TV when...
It did mean that I already knew quite a bit about it for when I realised, however.
Submitted by haventyouheardofknocking.
Going to a school with a mostly-male population...
Submitted anonymously.