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im NOT!!!! he just cant draw a cat

aaahh this is kinda hard but also really easy? idk. i know i have a lot of dysphoria and want to be viewed as male/genderqueer and definitely not female so…

I think a huge issue is the dissemination of information. Communication. 

I mean that there are multiple things that transgender people as a community should do more often:

If you’re looking for information, try and find all the publicly available information that you can. Don’t be afraid to even just go into a search engine and run a search for broad keywords like “transgender insurance provider Utah” or “how to change my legal name in Connecticut” stuff like that. 

Another important and under-appreciated vector of information for medical services is medical provider offices. Particularly general practitioners, who have to refer patients to a huge variety of services, including gender transition related services. All of medical industry is loosely connected in a network, they have to know shit about each other. So even if you aren’t a patient of your local planned parenthood or family practice doctor or whatever, they still are supposed to give you info on medical services as a professional courtesy if you, like, call them on the phone or send an email or even just drop by and ask the front desk. 

Furthermore when trans people DO find out important shit, we need to do a better job of disseminating and spreading that information. Even though social media is, like, very useful for that sort of thing, what I mean is fostering individual attitudes of being proactive with distributing information. 

Conversely to that previous point, it’s also really good to ask other trans people, indirectly or directly, about shit that you want to know. Because, yeah, at the end of the day there are some things that you can’t just google and you need another person to really understand you and give you a comprehensive answer. 

Clarification:

I don’t just mean trying to find, like, a doctor to give HRT or whatever. These principles can be applied to all sorts of shit thats integral to the transgender experience, like, 

“what does it feel like to realize you don’t identify with your birth-assigned gender”

“how do i know if i have dysphoria”

“is this feeling that i’m having related to being transgender”

“am i allowed to Not want GRS and be transgender”

u know? like all sorts of transgender related life shit that most trans people don’t really have anyone to ask about in their day to day life. so when we interact with each other its really important to support each other. and there’s a lot of levels of “community support” as a concept but i think what needs to be worked on first and foremost is information.