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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Rant *TW---possibly* People can be SO unfiltered

Reeses_Cup
Reeses_Cup

Just feel like saying I am not transgendered. I am a female, but it frustrates me beyond belief how people are so stereotypical, prejudice, and socialized to believe transgendered/transsexual individuals are "nasty" and how something's "wrong" with them. Everyone has something wrong with them, EXCLUDING their gender identity/gender. Was in school one day and three girls I was by, as I was studying for a final, were mentioning a certain transgendered person. The girl who originally saw the individual was making fun, saying how this person looked exactly like a trans because the person looked "sloppy" and repulsive, going on a tangent about how the trans population don't understand that you're born either a boy or a girl, that they're just having a crisis, etc. It went on. I don't even want to list all the other things these girls were saying. I'm sorry if this may seem triggering to anyone here, especially if it makes you feel like you have no one to talk to, but please let me remind you *I* am not like that nor are other people, I am sure. I've had two transgendered friends and to be honest, I judged them based on their personality, not on their gender/sex/identity. If you treat me with respect, I'll treat you with respect. Point blank. Who knows, maybe I met other transgendered individuals in the past and never knew because some people are terrified of being judged and I can understand WHY. When I overheard those girls at school, I was blown away at how ignorant they were. It actually makes me sick and just sad. Not for the transgendered population, but for those girls because they will never understand. They will just continue being sheep, following certain trends. To anyone who is having this issue, where they're scared, confused, lost in regards to their identity, you can talk to me. I will be a supportive friend, an ear that'll listen, and a shoulder you can cry on. I wish people out there weren't so malicious with their words, but they are and there's nothing I can do about it. No one who is transgendered is flawed. No one who is transgendered are abnormal. We all have imperfections and flaws, but it has NOTHING to do with sex/gender. NEVER. However, what we WERE born with is the ability to thrive and grow, day by day. Hopefully no one takes this the wrong way. I'm only venting about what I overheard because truly, it sickened me and I just do not want anyone feeling alone. It makes me want to cry. Not for my own advantage, but because I'm empathetic. I FEEL emotions from others and it radiates onto me. I don't consider that as a problem though. I think it makes me the kindhearted person that I am today.

WyndWytch
WyndWytch
they were raised by ignorant parents, thus they themselves are ignorant lacking any real exposure to the topic, pure and simple. Humans by nature fear and destroy what they don't understand. That's how we are wired and its how the species survived in the early times. Now that we have civilization those baser instincts really aren't needed and shouldn't come into play, but that does not mean that they do not. Thus you get people like that who are ignorant, have not bothered to research anything or get to know anything about it and talk out their rear ends only spewing what media or some church preacher has told them to think. This mentality happily is largely a USA issue more than anything else. Where some countries are for more resistant to anything related to sex or gender that is outside of "straight" most are much more accepting than the USA is. Most of the EU, Asia, so on. Heck even Canada and Mexico to some degree. Don't lose faith in humanity just because this country as a whole has become nothing more than a media induced ignorance fest. Like you though, I am disgusted by people like that, and on more topics than just this one. Its nice to know there are those that are supportive and that back us out there though. Often you end up feeling pretty alone, something like your message here is a HUGE help so thank you.
ThatTranskid
ThatTranskid
OMG your so nice, kind hearted person, I wish more people where like you, you know. I myself have only opened up to 1 friend in real life and a few people over the internet with my problems. Ill tell you that my biggest problem with who i am, is fear to what people may think, and ill tell you it causes some serious depression. But either way it makes me happy knowing that there are people like you in this world. :)