❦ Trans people

Note
An important thing to note as you read writing by trans people from some of the websites linked here is that trans people are not a monolith. What is meant by this is that not every trans person has the same views on even basic things like what it means to be trans or what gender is or if gender even exists.

It is a dangerous misconception to think that trans people are a monolith, because it goes hand in hand with the view that being trans is an ideology (this is why the term "transgenderism" will throw up some red flags for many people) which can be refuted. No, trans people are just a group of people who identify with the term for whatever reason, like people who would describe themselves as mathematicians or athletes (and if you ask a mathematician or athlete what makes them one, no matter your thoughts on the answer, you'll likely get different answers or at least wordings/understandings from different people. This is also true of asking cis men or cis women what makes them men or women respectively, as well as trans women and trans men and agender people and multigender people and so on.)

Understanding gender
Not Your Mom’s Trans 101

General resources
Gender dysphoria bible, Transgender Map
Stained glass woman
Transgender Dictionary
Trans-resources.info

Trans legislative risk / safety
Trans Rights Map - (Europe and Central Asia)
Erin In The Morning - USA trans legislative risk assessment, news of trans legislation, etc.
iceout.org - for people in the US; map of ICE sightings
Travel While Trans

Voice training
Voice Resource Project

Experiences with being trans
Transfem/mtf/etc.
 lili's musings: my journey coming out as trans, a small history of my trans feelings
 kashiba mikoshi: So I'm transgender, Training to be a Lady
Making A Monster Out of A Woman
medulla's trans shrine
My Story

Transmasc/ftm/etc.
I Am a Trans Man: A Second "Coming Out" and Retrospective 🏳️‍⚧️
I was a Feminine Woman, Trans men who aren't comfortable being men?
things change
what being a man means, trans masc, dating apps

Agender/neutral/etc.
a rant about gender

Genderfluid
genderfluidityinabowl 1, genderfluidityinabowl 2, genderfluidityinabowl 3

Bigender/pangender/etc.
Times I Should Have Realized I Was Trans
A Timeline of Self Discovery
Gender Journey

Unlabeled/not more specific than nonbinary/etc.
Gender Fluidity and Me
FEMBOY: The Assault on my Gender Identity (as a warning, heavy subject matter)
to lesbian, or not to lesbian.
Ask a Non-Binary
Are you a boy non-binary, or a girl non-binary?


Note: The categories here are very rough, and I chose the '/etc.' in the block titles to emphasize that; I have mixed feelings on the choice to categorize at all here, but functionally for finding things (like similar experiences to oneself, experiences dissimilar to oneself and etc.) I think it can be useful and beneficial. I recognize that it does risk creating an impression of conflation of certain things, and I hope saying as such helps mitigate that- these are wide, likely unequally sized, potentially overlapping and likely to some degree arbitrary buckets. I've tried to do my best based off of how people describe their experiences and their gender (and primarily the terms they use), and ofc if anyone would like categorization here to be handled differently (for them or just in general) or for me to remove a link or etc. please just let me know.

Additional notes (more for myself and organization):
- (gonna be reworking what 'buckets' are here too soon)
- maybe add a bit for cis ppls experiences, if I can find any of cis ppl who've written about their experiences of gender/cisness at length; could especially help for comparing against for ppl who are questioning
- adjust the html here so it's split horizontally into halves or thirds or smth

Pending / not yet sorted
becca.ooo: surgery consult
ava's space: trans women make me feel safe
Transfem Science
Self Defense for Transmisogyny Affected People
Transblog, Angus "Andrea" Grieve-Smith
Trans Unity - transmisogyny, erasure of trans men and nonbinary people
untuck NOW queen!

On Being Trans and the Importance of Passing
Let's talk about: Neurogenders
Shit cis people say, trans & intersex athletes, and warped double standards
Nonbinary People Don’t Want to Owe Androgyny, But We Do It to Survive
Why I Won’t Shut Up About Being Queer
No One Comes Out for Fun
The Case Against Mandatory Preferred Gender Pronouns
The HRT saga
Happy as Her
you are trans (im talking to you my cisgender friends)
Queer Secrets: not needing labels and privilege
Pass / Fail
How Do I Know If I’m Trans?
What You Didn't Know About Bigender People
The slippery slope of Transmedicalism
"Maddie, be green tea" - a discussion about presentation
PronounDB
Queering The Map
Contrapoints talks with Dr. K
Wishing I was cis
List of many pronouns
the case of the missing penis
You can call me genderfluid now
Neutrøis
Who cares if it's "our entire personality"?
https://youtu.be/C_fAReQz7mY