to be fair normies get more totalitarian with compelled speech when you misgender their dog than with trans people. the bar is in hell op, so even if you steered clear of people like me (lateshit non passing transwoman) you’ll be leagues ahead of most people.

>>326357
I don't mind lateshits and/or non-passers. I feel a lot of kinship with them. I am naturally extremely androgynous and it has always heavily impacted my life. I'm nature's equivalent of lateshit/non-passer.

I miss having trans friends. But I find it impossible to be around trans people unless you support the narrative that self-identity is absolute. And I don't.

I am really sad. I am going homeless again soon after a brief episode of not being homeless. I need something to cling to, but I've nothing.

>>326403
> I am really sad. I am going homeless again soon after a brief episode of not being homeless. I need something to cling to, but I've nothing
that really sucks, and i havent been in a similar circumstance so i dont have advice for you. i wish i could help.

>self-identity is absolute
personally i think its a little nuanced, since man/woman operate as much on a social level as they do on a biological level and transitioning has both biological components and social components. if a woman is attracted to someone who takes feminizing hrt, and presents feminine; that woman probably isnt straight, and her attraction probably isnt similar to her attraction (or lack thereof) to men. then theres boymoders who take hrt but “present masculine” which can work to some degree, however the fact that they take hrt means they will develop the secondary sex characteristics of a woman. its no secrete to feminists that women and men get treated differently, even if no hard law is written to explicitly state that. that being said, when a boymoder ends up looking like a woman people will start treating her like a woman even if she tries to go “tehe im a boy tho”. and lastly there are individuals who socially transition but not medically, imo this feels a bit rare but maybe thats only for mtfs. however again if someone is read as woman then people will most likely treat them as a woman.

is it compelled speech to say call them the pronouns and name they ask for? is it compelled speech when i tell someone my birth name instead of letting them decide what to call me? is it compelled speech that i cant call my coworker a “fucking idiot”? what is the essence of womaness, or manness? because when you look into it you realize its always been an approximation.

i don't know if i'm trans or not, but at this point i just stopped caring after i realized i wouldn't be able to transition. i guess if i had the option to press a button that made me the opposite sex, i would press it. i just have no motivation to go with modern medicine to go through with it, maybe that makes me not "trans enough" idc. i like women and can't do anything about it and thats generally enough for me to feel alienated with most trad places.

mobile gets finicky with typing long paragraphs of text. but i guess the point is that after a while you just have to stop caring unless you have to, and just sort of trudge through the culture war stuff. a lot of the previous bans on gay anything in the first world have already been lifted, so if you tune out the bs you can still live a better life than you would have a few decades ago.

>>326541
>if a woman is attracted to someone who takes feminizing hrt, and presents feminine; that woman probably isnt straight, and her attraction probably isnt similar to her attraction (or lack thereof) to men.
I've actually sort of noticed I'm more attracted to trans women and feminine men more than I do normal men. I don't know how much is actually biological and how much is just aesthetic preference. I'm technically bisexual but I've noticed in recent years that I have much less interest in men. However I may be the odd person out on this because most people seem to be attracted to (usually gender conforming) cis people.

>>328933
>i just have no motivation to go with modern medicine to go through with it,

Even for DIY?

>maybe that makes me not "trans enough" idc.

Maybe for some, but frankly it does not matter what some shithead says on the internet. It's more likely they're as miserable as you and the 300 other 'faketrans' in real life. Trutrans status only 'saves' those that look like blowup dolls and even then those people are faggot males

>>333985
>Even for DIY?
It's more that I started getting a lot of side effects from T along with a lot of other reasons that I can't transition.

>Maybe for some, but frankly it does not matter what some shithead says on the internet.
I kinda don't care what internet people say as opposed to what people in real life have to say. I tend to have a long of "wrongthought" opinions which eventually gets you kicked out of any trans space defacto, and anyone outside the trans spaces will either be indifferent or hostile towards you. I can't be assed to really care about the drama just transitioning itself would bring even if my life circumstances were better.