Transgender Support Group

This community is here to support and help the large population of transgender people. If you or anyone you know identify as transgender, this is the place to share your feelings and experiences and speak with others who are going through similar things in their lives.

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Im-here-now-i-guess 08/04/2017

There was a person talking and he said something that triggered me, but not by his fault. Like we all know how chromosomes work blah blah. But he said "every single cell in your entire body has xy chromosomes."

I get that I'm biological male so obviously I should feel ok in my skin but I don't at all. It makes me sick every day. I feel like the Trans movement that's going on now is sort of trying to set a certain blanket over everything, saying Trans people are this or that, or arent for that matter.

I was just thinking. I'm not sure I could justify that it's not a mental illness. But for me it's a big one. It hurts a lot every day.

Thinking about how my bipolar disorder can make everything harder/worse.

There isn't a pill, it's not like "oh part of your brain is weird take this."

Try to imagine that most of you life you've had extreme dysphoria and you start the transition everything going good, milestone girl stuff it all feels right.

Then u take this Magic pill... what happens? Your entire world would crumble before you. It would be like a psychotic trip. Do you just become like a blank new person? You life has been about being you and wanting to be who you are. And then it's just gone?

Idk... the worst of it is feeling like you will never be you anyways. I was born male. My brain is telling me I'm not male. I don't feel male I don't want to do any "guy" stuff. My body....

I don't want any of this, reroll xx or xy fuckit

WyndWytch 08/06/2017

i have heard the same thing to many times from people. I have spent a lot of time studying genetics and genetic anomalies, so what i recommend is look up things like Kleinfelters syndrome, or testosteron insensitivity syndrome. In the first case you are XXY, in the second case you are XY yet your body developed female because you dont respond to testosterone at all. Both of these are real physical things that occur pretty often. There is also research that shows that brain physiology differs between straight men, gay men, and trans males, and the same for women in the same situation. Trans males have a brain operation patter that is identical to that of a woman, if the trans male is attracted to women, then it matches that of a lesbian woman, if they prefer men, then it matches the straight woman. These are all scientifically show cases. If they want to claim genetics you have plenty of research to throw back at them. In the end, they are simply uncomfortable with it and are grasping at simple BS to figure a way to say nope. well throw things in their face to invalidate the claims. There's plenty of proof out there do some reading and put it to good use.

DaysStranger 08/13/2017

yes, in a way, though i don't know this may be weird, and not agreed on, but maybe we are inbetween genders. so if we physically transition there may be issues? Idk. brain scans show that we are essentially between genders i thought.
so thinking about it this way explains to me why after people transition sometimes there are issues in the opposite direction. I don't know. its all very confusing to me.

andro-quest 08/13/2017

You have my total and complete sympathy, the other day some (cis) guy barked at me
"Look and Act like a GIRL you'll feel better!" He didn't know what he was talking about and neither do the people who are giving you a hard time.

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