We also often need to be shown “this group isn’t trying to hurt you, most are just trying to get by and they have full internal experiences just like you.” Growing up people like me were typically depicted in media as predators or dead sex workers and in addition to the shame and fear it taught me, it also resulted in some people having to learn to see me as just a person and member of their community with no ill will towards them.

Weird, mine is having to live through a modern reenactment of the end Permian extinction event

Yeah, nobody makes vehicles in the US or Canada that aren’t made in part in the US, Canada, and Mexico. That’s just the post NAFTA manufacturing environment. Labor heavy and high pollution components are made in Mexico while skilled labor and assembled parts are made in the Great Lakes region crossing borders as is convenient.

Oh yeah if you can’t do that with your friends you need friends you can

My social circle changed a bit, but I was 20 and still love and cherish my pre transition friends. Even the one who’s also an engineer lol

For context, they’re nerdy men who are progressive and in touch with their emotions. One is way more masculine than the others, but we don’t judge his love of sports lol

It sounds like a kei car so already not street lega

Oh hey, a car that’s basically what I wanted. A reasonably sized and priced electric hatchback.

Not in the market for a new car though

Congrats!

Yeah I want lightning to do it

See that narrative does strike a chord. My life is externally very difficult because I’m trans. But I didn’t get an easy and happy option, my choices were to face all that and do my best to build a happy life anyways or to live in misery tortured by the threat of it.

I feel that hard. It didn’t come out of nowhere, it came out of me exhausting every alternative I grasped for despite knowing full well that it would always end here. And of course the signs were all easy to brush off like me hating being photographed, I saw how people who violated gender expectations were treated. And especially I saw how trans women were treated in society. Why the fuck would I have been open about having these thoughts until I was damn sure? I spent a lot of my teen years trying to stay safe and wantable while also trying to push those boundaries and see what I could get away with

Started at 20, got hormones in under a year after coming out. Been over 10 years, and have had surgery. My regrets are all about not getting to start sooner, that I should have gotten more modern approaches to hrt (reduced spiro and increased estrogen with injections sooner), and how I should’ve learned to be more feminine earlier.

I’m alive now, truly and fully. I was just barely surviving before

Yeah, the lesbians sent over a nice femme with cleavage and I was hooked.

The gas tax is far below what’s needed for the roads

What can I say, the lesbians had a really good recruitment pitch at the queer meetup.

I didn’t realize parts of ohio were in the Bible belt. But yeah, that tracks for 20 years ago in ohio imo

I remember back in the day I knew a woman whose mom was totally supportive of her transition, but was wildly homophobic to her. Like, refused to acknowledge that her wife wasn’t just a friend.

While healing from full srs, yeah I absolutely had a lot of pain that my brain interpreted as in the balls. Once the pain subsided it never returned and it feels weird to remember my body was ever like that. That said, I had phantom sensations of a more feminine body before I started transitioning. Both phantom breasts from around early puberty until I grew my own, and a phantom vulva until bottom surgery.

This is why you get a pill organizer. That and so you can check if you took your meds that day.

Also prevents the “accidentally took amphetamines with my night time meds” which while rare is worse than the “took them twice this morning”

Why would we make those when we can ban the only country actually trying to make evs