Trans Trendering-Who is Transitioning

I'm going to use this space this week to also comment on the discussion post I started last week on these same posts.

I began the WIT posts because there has been a long held myth that most female transitioners were/are Butch (in gay/lesbian circles) or mannish women (per the general public). I wont go into the whys of the myth, but I will say as a Butch who has been in or around the Butch/Femme community for several decades, I knew the myth to be absolutely false. Youtube presented a way to dismantle the Butch/trans myth since there were no shortage of females using YT to glamorize their transition.

What became immediately apparent when looking at YT were the massive amounts of teenage girls and young women transitioning, none Butch btw. So what began and a simple way to illustrate who was actually transitioning, quickly turned into a weekly post illuminating a growing trans trend. A trend that hassteadily grown since I started the WIT posts, with ever more young females jumping onto the trans bandwagon weekly.

The girls chosen for each weekly post are properly represented by a pic (usually from their ftM intro video) accompanied by a link to said video. Only videos that are completely public, specifying  a desire to transition or in the early stages of transition and already using a male names/pronouns are used. Not one female has ever been made fun of by me, as I do not find female self hatred to be something one pokes fun at. It is as serious as it is tragic.

These posts have never been aimed at female transitioners, they have always been made to illustrate to lesbians and the general public just how serious an issue female transition has become post queer theory. I have said many times here before, I do not write for those floating in the ocean, but those still on the beaches who have a chance to be saved from drowning in the waters of female self hatred. If there are female transitioners who find something useful in my posts, great. But again, this is clearly a female centered space. If there are female transitioners regularly reading/commenting here, I would suspect it is because they truly do not believe themselves to be real men and are secretly searching for help and some kind of female closeness. Very few real men (if any) would have much interest in what is posted here.

So to sum up, these posts or any posts here, are not written for a trans audience. And the WIT posts are posted specifically to shed light on what has become a trans trend among young females sans any real feminism.

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Women's Colleges continue being invaded and undermined by Transmen

Transman tries to use his male privilege to gain position to interview new female students at Wellesley...

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Portland Health Care to Cover Gender Transition

Portland's mayor wants the city's health care system to cover transitioning for city employees.

The mayor said, "making health care benefits  "trans-inclusive" will help the city attract the best and brightest employees to Portland."' So self-hating, mentally ill women and men who pathologically believe in maintaining strict gender norms at any and all costs, are according to Portland's mayor, "the best and the brightest!"

If the male medical machine bothered to see beyond the homophobic gender norms it is drugging and butchering people into and develop instead a serious course of therapy to help those with gender related issues, I could understand extending medical coverage to help them. These are, after all, real people in real pain, painfully uncomfortable with their own bodies. And for females during menstruation, that uneasiness doubles, triples, quadruples literally to the point of suicidal feelings in some cases. 

But there is no proof that transition cures gender uncomfortableness. In fact, transition can make the perceived incongruencies all the more apparent, worsening body dysphoria. Trans people themselves have said repeatedly that transition isn't a cure all. It is physically and mentally painful, it never ends, and the reason for transition (dysphoria) returns to greater or lesser degrees, along with feelings of depression and even suicidal feelings.

Transition, as it stands now, is nothing more than gender cosmetics, and last I checked, cosmetics aren't seen as something medical insurances should have to pay for. Because when it comes right down to it, in truth there are women who are so pathologically consumed/concerned with their looks, that they will not leave their homes without a full face of make up on. Should tax payers cover these women too? And if not, why? If their self-esteem is so tied up in how they look, and how they look so tied up in how they feel about their bodies, why shouldn't lip gloss and eye shadow be covered by medical insurances if transition is going to be? Because that's the door that is being opened here- nose jobs, boob jobs, ear jobs, face lifts, labiaplasties, etc. would all have to be covered if transition is.

Or it could go the exact opposite way, as we have seen in some of the Common Wealth countries, whereby transition is fully covered but other procedures aren't. Medical issues that are not considered life or death, like transition is, are paid out of pocket or put on a waiting list for up to several years if national health care is to cover it. I know someone whose mother had a severe incontinent problem. There was a fairly simply operation that could fix this, but because the male medical machine doesn't see this as life or death, if she wanted the surgery asap, she had to pay for it herself. If she wanted her country's health care to cover it, she would have to wait a minimum of a year.

This was a very vital and active woman who had a healthy social life and many commitments to many needy organizations. She felt so ashamed of her problem, she stopped volunteering, stopped all socializing, and became more a less a depressed hermit. It broke her children, but they pooled their resources to pay for the surgery so she could have her life back. If that isn't life or death, then I don't know what is! The short off it, had she wanted her tits cut of and her vagina sewn shut, the state would have paid for it in full in a hot NY minute!

The current (mis)treatment for GID is initially costly with growing expenses due to transition needing to be maintained through the lifespan of the individual. Because there are no long term studies on potential risks caused by long term use of hormones at levels not designed for the body of the transitioner, we don't know what future health issues could develop for the transitioner. So lawsuits concerning the city that provided the (mis)treatment may also be in the city's/tax payer's future.

This article was emailed to me last week, and along with the same concerns I wrote about here, the sender had concerns about the public online voting site. That link has found its way to tons of trans tumbl accounts in hopes of swaying the vote their way. Disgusting, I know, but when you lie daily about who you are, including to yourself, should we expect anything less?

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Will REAL Tranmen Please Stand up Please Stand up!

I felt this commentor's questions deserved their own post.

I too find it interesting how most transmen over 35 are so quick to dismiss trans trenders as "not really trans". These young women, have had to have been diagnosed with GID by the same male medical machine that past female transitioners have. That the money hungry, narrow minded male medical machine is quicker to transition young women shouldnt invalidate their (trans trenders) trans status to other female transitioners.

I suspect older transmen are so quick to judge trans trenders is because they fear trans trending invalidates their own transness. Maybe seeing too much of themselves in trans trenders which reinforces their own trans mistake.

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Who is Transitioning-A Discussion

The Who is Transitioning post always stirs up a great deal of emotion no matter who comments. I'd like to focus a discussion on just those posts and the emotions behind them for both you and me.

Share with us your feelings on the Who is Transitioning posts, your position (for or against and why) along with your ID if you would.

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