#Trans Teens

[charliejaneanders]

Once again Soleil Ho doesn't miss (paywall-free link)

[gwydionmisha]

It looked pretty hinky at the time.

[lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers]

I know this proposed policy has been floating around for a long time, but to bring it up again during pride month is pretty shitty.

This current leak is pretty concerning, as it doesn't mention exemptions for safeguarding, which previous leaks did.

However, if you want to feel a little bit better about the world, then there's a reddit thread here with a lot of teachers saying they'd rather lose their job than out a trans child against their will: https://www.reddit.com/r/TeachingUK/comments/14db7o6/forced_to_out_lgbt_students/

If all school staff refuse to comply, then any guidance is meaningless.

[transfloridaresources]

[Photo ID: Light blue tone background with the state of Florida colored in trans flag colors (blue, pink, and white). The blue game controller Discord logo is visible with text reading: 'TFR Discord Server is live! Trans Floridian teens (13 & up) & adults welcome! Get the link at linktr.ee/transfloridaresources.' /End ID]

This is a space for trans Floridians to find community with each other while navigating existence here. We know not everyone is able to find community in person, for various reasons, so our aim is to bring some to you otherwise.

TFR’s goal is focused on providing tangible comfort and mutual aid, not inciting panic. Many of the moderators are trans people of color. Respecting this outlook is the most important rule you are agreeing to when joining this server.

[rainbowroachies]

Transgender

Ever since I was little, I've felt more on the masculine side of the gender spectrum. But when I was a little girl I thought that I wasn't right. My mother had taught me to be against people who are a different gender then their birth gender. My mom had taught me that they will burn in hell, that they will be punished by Christ. And I hated myself for it, I hated feeling like a boy. So I made it up by coming out as lesbian/bisexual. I told my mom my sexuality, and I was severely punished. I wanted to cry in my closet until I died from starvation and dehydration, but I didn't change. I was a "weird tomboy girl" who hated pink, dresses, and barbies. My mom would call me a tranny and make fun of me for it, saying that I acted "unladylike." I pushed myself, my brain, my power, to stay feminine. I wanted to be happy, be at home, be loved. I hated the feeling, though. I wanted to be a boy, I wanted to change. I held my thoughts and crumpled them and threw them away...Only to pick them back up from the trash can in my brain. I had to fix it, I needed to be happy. I couldn't stay cisgender any longer, the dysphoria was only getting more painful. I decided it was time, time to be a boy, be happy.

[thehotgrandparent]

Did you know that ‘trans teens’ backwards is ‘sneet snart’? 👽

[we-hate-plantains]

dude ur trans? nice hell followed with us reference

[roxyandtheroxies]

Isn't it weird how societal transphobia is so effortlessly powerful, that even progressive people can hardly go out of their way to help trans people or stop being sexist/transphobic in certain ways? Like they'll stop saying actively transphobic stuff, but they'll put trans teens through hell and back before they can even touch hrt, perhaps until they are 18, undoing the whole point of their fight to transition as soon as possible...actions speak louder than words my friends.

And on that topic, it is truly so horrible how if you struggle to find hrt soon after you discover you are trans, then you won't get to live your high school or even university years as the person who yoy always wanted to be, like, i know legally i can transition quite easily, but that's not what i want, i want people around me to know i am a woman, and not in the fake ass "i'll just respect your gender identity" sort of way, i want to be seen as a woman through and through, even progressives will never quite see me as a real woman no matter what.

They can go smurf themselves though, the fight doesn't end here trans folks.

[jellyfish-fingernail]

i wanna talk about something.

i am a 15 year old trans boy. i would assume that when you read that, your reaction is "oh, that's horrifying! a child being forced to think they're something that they are not!" nope. nobody forced me to be trans. i thought about it myself. i knew only ONE trans person at the time that i realized i was trans (when i was 11). and i knew trans people existed. but my mother never talked to me about it. when i was a very little kid, i said a lot of things about how "i was supposed to be a boy" and that "i am not a girl, i am a boy." this started the same year i learned how to talk. i cried so much as a little kid because i "was supposed to be a boy, i'm not a girl." nobody ever talked to me about it. i even asked my mom why i liked it when people assumed i was a boy one time. she told me it was normal, sounding nervous. when i came out to my mother, she didn't believe me. not because she didn't think i was valid, but because she was in denial. she knew i was trans, but she didn't want me to be bullied, hatecrimed or even murdered. however, she came to accept it quickly. my parents never offered me hormone therapy or binders until i asked for it. nobody forced me to be trans. and i regret nothing. i don't regret being on testosterone, i don't regret binding, i don't regret anything. i feel like me. i never felt like me as a little kid. and yes, you probably think i am "too young to make these decisions." and i don't care. you aren't me. you don't know my mind. you don't know me. i am damn well sentient enough. im old enough to learn to drive. i should be old enough. and nothing is being forced on me.

[fazbearedits]

Sneet Snart

[tulipsandsunshine]

What do you all think of the name Ava??

[onetwistedmiracle]

My Dad may have officially retired from practicing medicine but he still gets and reads medical journals. He pulled this out of the latest New England Journal of Medicine (January 19, 2023) and mailed it to me, because my son -- his grandson -- is trans, and like a good Jew my Dad worries.

While it is true that "unanswered questions remain," to quote the note from my father he included with the article, honestly, the results seem awfully positive to me. When you put kids with gender dysphoria on the hormones they are asking for, "appearance congruence, positive affect and life satisfaction increase." Also good news, their "depression and anxiety symptoms decreased."

The TLDR of it is that it's still hard to be trans, but hormone therapy helps and should be used when appropriate. Medical science agrees generally, and specifically so does this 2 year long study.

[nicosniners]

hey i'm meeting with my principal about how to better support trans kids within the school. are there any statistics or ideas any of you have that we could discuss?

[lillypadcrochet]

I love my job bc recently I got to witness my queer colleague helping a transgender student try on makeup for the first time! And then she walked around the school and showed every single staff member bc we actively support students exploring their gender identity!

We will use your deadname to your parents.

We will lie if they start sniffing and you don’t want to share.

We will support you in getting gender affirming clothes for at school, which stay at school.

We will buy you that flag.

We will take you to get your hair cut.

And when the time comes for transition services and you’re legally your own, we’ll help you do the paperwork part! Without your parents. 🤷🏼‍♀️

If you want to be a part of your trans kids milestones, you’ve got to be supportive of them!

pour one out for trans peeps who have one foot in the closet cus they don’t want their parents knowing but wanna be out in other places like work or school,

who don’t want to change things about themself just to “pass”,

who “look cis” because they don’t have their hair a certain way, bind, pack, tuck, take hormones, or dress a certain way

who get misgendered, not out of maliciousness, but because they can’t tell unless you tell them

none of this makes you “less transgender” and less transgender isn’t a thing. you’re trans. it came free with your complicated relationship with gender