I'm uhhhh questioning my gender again
Jensen…
wassup?
We love and support you! If you wanna go through therapy, and get the surgery then do so! But make sure dysphoria is what you're experiencing so that you don't regret anything, mske sure you're certain! Whatever you do I'm behind it 100%, but I advise you to wait til' you're older, and til' you get to a less transphobic community!
I’m hoping that this is in any way helpful. I’m trying to find gender indentities that sound like what you are describing, at least from my understanding.
I… don't like to identify with genders such as that… I don't like all of the confusing inbetween things. They're too specific to me and there are too many. I like to stick by cis, trans, non binary, and genderfluid (for myself at least)
I totally get it, Jensy!
I appreciate it though
So guys, can you explain this to me? Not trying to be rude here but I just don't understand anything about identifying as something other than you were assigned at birth. Please enlighten.
I'm cis too…
Basically, it's like this…
Dysphoria is when your mind is confused about your body, and whether you're male or female and all that…
It’s more than confusion though. Some people have it bad enough that it can cause depression, anxiety, anger/hostility. It’s really bad.
Yeah… Exactly…
That stuff is frickin weird. Don't want to sound insensitive here but how could you be a different gender than is told by your biology? Like how does that work?
So guys, can you explain this to me? Not trying to be rude here but I just don't understand anything about identifying as something other than you were assigned at birth. Please enlighten.
You don't need to understand something to respect it, so thank you for being polite.
Okay basically what you've known for your whole life up to this point is cisgender (identifying as your assigned birth gender). Now you shall learn about transgender, which is not identifying as your assigned birth gender. This also comes with the hot side effect of dysphoria, a feeling where your body–or body parts–is wrong.
It’s a medical condition developed in the womb and it may be difficult to understand if you’ve never felt it.
It's not offensive… A lot of people have the same question…
Dysphoria is part of biology too, so it's all biological…
That stuff is frickin weird. Don't want to sound insensitive here but how could you be a different gender than is told by your biology? Like how does that work?
It's not "frickin weird" when you've had to deal with wanting to cut off parts of your body because they were wrong.
How, you ask? How do you know you identify as your biological gender?
So because one feels wrong the other is right? (Srsly want to understand!)
And I identify as male cause it's in my dna.
Biological sex is your chromosomes and DNA but gender is your neuro pathways in your brain determining whether you feel male or female.
Actually, I just remembered… There's some excellent breakthroughs in research concerning dysphoria… How many of you are left-handed?
Biological sex is your chromosomes and DNA but gender is your neuro pathways in your brain determining whether you feel male or female.
How so?
There's more options than just "the other" in terms of being right. There are more than just trans-ftm and trans-mtf. There are also trans-nonbinary, trans-genderfluid, agender, bigender, demigirl, demiboy, etc.
You don't have to identify a certain way because "your DNA says so". Being comfortable with your gender is one thing, using an excuse to justify your gender identity is another. I have hidden behind that same excuse for years before coming to terms with myself being trans-genderfluid, so excuse me for being a bit wary.
Dammit… Would you guys listen to me? I might have critical information about this topic…
So are you saying gender is based on feelings?
Sorry Shuri, speak on.
Well… Anyone else left handed?
How about we pretend someone here is left handed?
Well… Anyone else left handed?
I have a friend who lives a block away from me, and he's left-handed.