#transtrending

I have found a way to get rid of (a part of) my dysphoria. Please take ur time to read this because it might just help you!

So, I used to be a pretty hardcore truscum right. I had a lot of dysphoria and I HATED(!!!) being trans. I bitterly said things like ‘don’t romanticize being trans, being trans sucks it has ruined my life!’ and it had. I spent a lot of time, online and irl, with like minded people, and I genuinely thought it was helping me because I was finding people going through the same thing as me.

But here’s what I found.

Dysphoria is contagious. If your friends say they hate their body bc of dysphoria, you’ll start saying it too and you’ll believe it too eventually. It becomes a contest who suffers the most under being trans. I’m not saying that my dysphoria wasn’t genuine, or that I didn’t hate being trans from my core, but I’m saying that the environment I was in encouraged that part of me to take control until it was the only thing I could think of.

You know what’s also contagious? Romanticizing things.

I realised that no matter how hard I screamed I hated being trans, the fact that I was trans would never change. I have to spend the rest of my life being trans.

So I tried a different approach:

I blocked/unfollowed all social media accounts that talked about the severity of their dysphoria. I unfollowed all truscum accounts in general. I started following ‘tucute’ and ‘trendercore’ hashtags. I surrounded myself with people who love being trans, even if I did not agree with a lot of things, especially at the time (like having no dysphoria, neopronouns, not making an effort to pass). Their positivity and almost aggresive self love rubbed off on me. I started looking at art of and by trans people. I started reading books/stories with trans characters.

Now, I mostly associate me being trans with good things. And it has helped me so, so much.

I’m gonna be stuck with being trans for the rest of my life, so you bet your ass I’ll romanticize my trans identity until I start to love it

TL;DR:

broke: I hate being trans it has ruined my life

THE WORD “TRANSTRENDER” WAS COINED/POPULARIZED BY A TERF. STOP USING IT.

image 1: a 2012 post from infamous TERF d*rtywh*teboi67’s blogspot, the first instance of any variation of “transtrender” i could find. she continues to make these posts to this day.

You’ve heard of the Gay Agenda™ ... now get ready for the Trender Agenda!

Some of y'all look at asexuals and nonbinary people, groups going "please attach us to the LGBT," basically screaming "YES HOMO," but you don't understand the identities so you think "cishet invaders" and try to build some kind of sexuality border wall.

Real "cishet invaders" don't say "yes homo." They just try to get the bars and community centers shut down, and raise panics about gay pedophiles and bathroom invaders. You're just projecting your own secret fears and ashamed desires and feelings of insufficiency onto the scary new thing, or you want a target to hate so much that you're willing to restart homophobic myths like calling entire sexualities or factions pedophiles on zero evidence and no victims (besides interacting with other people who have also been accused on zero evidence and no victims).