❦ 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 - a living document on gender and gender dysphoria
Transgender Dictionary
Stained glass woman
Trans men online
Trans-resources.info

Trans legislative risk / safety
Trans Rights Map - (Europe and Central Asia)
Transgender Map
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

Voice training
https://wiki.sumianvoice.com/

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
https://geocities.restorativland.org/WestHollywood/Parade/1796/Page3.html

Experiences with being trans (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
https://venado.bearblog.dev/what-being-a-man-means/ https://venado.bearblog.dev/trans-masc-romance/

Experiences with being trans (agender/neutral/etc.)
a rant about gender

Experiences with being trans (genderfluid)
genderfluidityinabowl 1, genderfluidityinabowl 2, genderfluidityinabowl 3

Experiences with being trans (bigender/pangender/etc.)
Times I Should Have Realized I Was Trans
https://youtu.be/mx1uzJC7Mbo?si=F76NuIWchG3XxC7E https://blog.cascading.space/gender-journey/

Experiences with being trans (unlabeled/etc.)
https://jr-the-cybernaut.bearblog.dev/gender-fluidity-and-me/
https://redplanet.bearblog.dev/the-assault-on-my-gender-identity/

https://rango.bearblog.dev/to-lesbian-or-not-to/

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!

https://ninecoffees.blog/on-being-trans-and-the-importance-of-passing/
https://travelwhiletrans.com/#/
https://neurogender.carrd.co/
https://askanonbinary.tumblr.com/
https://freethoughtblogs.com/atg/2017/03/07/shit-cis-people-say-trans-intersex-athletes-and-warped-double-standards/
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/10/5/xiao-nonbinary-androgyny/
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2021/6/29/xiao-why-i-wont-shut-up-about-being-queer/
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2021/2/17/xiao-coming-out/
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2020/10/16/xiao-against-mandatory-preferred-gender-pronouns/
https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/5248-The-HRT-saga
https://daedrms.neocities.org/happyasher
https://www.amoderndilemma.com/new-post-new/
https://queersecrets.tumblr.com/post/2094881573
freethoughtblogs.com/nataliereed/2012/04/13/pass-fail/ freethoughtblogs.com/nataliereed/2013/03/17/how-do-i-know-if-im-trans/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-79vckwI5Pk https://kami.bearblog.dev/the-slippery-slope-of-transmedicalism/