#transition stories

[sparklemaia]

yes I'm now on the other side of top surgery and I'm allowed to lift things again 💪 You might have already seen this one on my substack -- did u know you can subscribe to my substack for early access to comics like this?! Sent directly to your email inbox??? FOR FREE????? (there is also an optional paid tier for exclusive bonus content for five bucks a month but like 80% of my posts will be free and publicly available) ty ily♥

#top surgery #trans #nonbinary #gendequeer #lgbtq #queer #gender #transition #dysphoria #cw: dysphoria #cw: nudity #cw: mental health #disasters and other genders #transition stories #journal comic #autobio comic #personal

[bread-tab]

recently my face has grown a few hairs and otherwise somehow changed juuust enough that acquaintances aren't recognizing me. (the voice drop helps too.) i work at a couple places that have a lot of regulars. i've been getting asked if i'm new, congratulated on getting the job, etc. well this one person (who i only know as Muffin Lady because she knows what she likes) happens to also know one of my siblings and she's like,

"heyyy! you're the sister-brother, right?!"

and i'm like "...um, yeah"

Muffin Lady is thrilled. she thinks i'm the best thing she's seen since poppyseed muffins and goes out of her way to tell me i'm awesome

and idk y'all, there's a lot of fuss in the online community about labels and terminology and knowing just the right things to say about what trans people are going through and that's all fine

but irl? i'm finding that it's the Muffin Ladies of the world that make me feel like everything is going to be okay. it's the people that don't know shit about you and just want a muffin taking a second to say "you're awesome!" because they're not paying attention to all the political bs, they just see some weirdo being unapologetically themselves and get excited

thank you Muffin Lady. i'm glad you know what you like. you're awesome too

#transition stories #breadtab life #genderbread tab #trans #trans guy #i love humans #swearing cw

[cur10uscr0w]

v convenient that when I was readying to switch which bathroom I use at work, my small team got moved to an entirely different floor of the office, surrounded by coworkers who don't know me and wouldn't recognize the transition. This workplace is so trans inclusive it answers the needs I was too embarrassed to vocalize.

#Trans #Transition stories #Queer #Lol lmao #Honestly so convenient

[endusviolence]

Rowling isn't denying holocaust. She just pointed out that burning of transgender health books is a lie as that form of cosmetic surgery didn't exist. But of course you knew that already, didn't you?

I was thinking I'd probably see one of you! You're wrong :) Let's review the history a bit, shall we?

In this case, what we're talking about is the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, or in English, The Institute of Sexology. This Institute was founded and headed by a gay Jewish sexologist named Magnus Hirschfeld. It was founded in July of 1919 as the first sexology research clinic in the world, and was run as a private, non-profit clinic. Hirschfeld and the researchers who worked there would give out consultations, medical advice, and even treatments for free to their poorer clientele, as well as give thousands of lectures and build a unique library full of books on gender, sexuality, and eroticism. Of course, being a gay man, Hirschfeld focused a lot on the gay community and proving that homosexuality was natural and could not be "cured".

Hirschfeld was unique in his time because he believed that nobody's gender was either one or the other. Rather, he contended that everyone is a mixture of both male and female, with every individual having their own unique mix of traits.

This leads into the Institute's work with transgender patients. Hirschfeld was actually the one to coin the term "transsexual" in 1923, though this word didn't become popular phrasing until 30 years later when Harry Benjamin began expanding his research (I'll just be shortening it to trans for this brief overview.) For the Institute, their revolutionary work with gay men eventually began to attract other members of the LGBTA+, including of course trans people.

Contrary to what Anon says, sex reassignment surgery was first tested in 1912. It'd already being used on humans throughout Europe during the 1920's by the time a doctor at the Institute named Ludwig Levy-Lenz began performing it on patients in 1931. Hirschfeld was at first opposed, but he came around quickly because it lowered the rate of suicide among their trans patients. Not only was reassignment performed at the Institute, but both facial feminization and facial masculization surgery were also done.

The Institute employed some of these patients, gave them therapy to help with other issues, even gave some of the mentioned surgeries for free to this who could not afford it! They spoke out on their behalf to the public, even getting Berlin police to help them create "transvestite passes" to allow people to dress however they wanted without the threat of being arrested. They worked together to fight the law, including trying to strike down Paragraph 175, which made it illegal to be homosexual. The picture below is from their holiday party, Magnus Hirschfeld being the gentleman on the right with the fabulous mustache. Many of the other people in this photo are transgender.

[Image ID: A black and white photo of a group of people. Some are smiling at the camera, others have serious expressions. Either way, they all seem to be happy. On the right side, an older gentleman in glasses- Magnus Hirschfeld- is sitting. He has short hair and a bushy mustache. He is resting one hand on the shoulder of the person in front of him. His other hand is being held by a person to his left. Another person to his right is holding his shoulder.]

There was always push back against the Institute, especially from conservatives who saw all of this as a bad thing. But conservatism can't stop progress without destroying it. They weren't willing to go that far for a good while. It all ended in March of 1933, when a new Chancellor was elected. The Nazis did not like homosexuals for several reasons. Chief among them, we break the boundaries of "normal" society. Shortly after the election, on May 6th, the book burnings began. The Jewish, gay, and obviously liberal Magnus Hirschfeld and his library of boundary-breaking literature was one of the very first targets. Thankfully, Hirschfeld was spared by virtue of being in Paris at the time (he would die in 1935, before the Nazis were able to invade France). His library wasn't so lucky.

This famous picture of the book burnings was taken after the Institute of Sexology had been raided. That's their books. Literature on so much about sexuality, eroticism, and gender, yes including their new work on trans people. This is the trans community's Alexandria. We're incredibly lucky that enough of it survived for Harry Benjamin and everyone who came after him was able to build on the Institute's work.

[Image ID: A black and white photo of the May Nazi book burning of the Institute of Sexology's library. A soldier, back facing the camera, is throwing a stack of books into the fire. In the background of the right side, a crowd is watching.]

As the Holocaust went on, the homosexuals of Germany became a targeted group. This did include transgender people, no matter what you say. To deny this reality is Holocaust denial. JK Rowling and everyone else who tries to pretend like this isn't reality is participating in that evil. You're agreeing with the Nazis.

But of course, you knew that already, didn't you?

Edit: Added image IDs. I apologize to those using screen readers for forgetting them. Please reblog this version instead.

#transgender #trans history #transsexual #transphobia #Magnus Hirschfeld #holocaust #holocaust denial #book burning #j.k. rowling #jk rowling #just in case you missed what i mean by all this: go fuck yourself anon :) #trans people have always existed #and we will always exist #if you really wanna pick a fight with me over well-documented history then you better bring in some sources to back your shit #queer history #queer #lgbt+ #lgbta+ #lgbt #lgbt history #edit: i finally got around to those damn image IDs. i am so very sorry for totally forgetting that's my bimbo moment of the month #also real quick i thought about adding an image of the actual building but the only one i can find has a Nazi parade in front of it #it was taken the day of the book burning raid and honestly if i were to include it then i'd add it to the first few paragraphs #and i think the story's better told when you uphold the hope Magnus Hirschfeld and all the researchers he worked with had #also keeps being brought up: yes Hirschfeld was a eugenicist. it was a popular belief set that was only discredited after WW2 #Hirschfeld died in 1935. he literally didn't live long enough to see science turn against those beliefs and practices #considering how he changed his mind on transitions i like to think he would've changed his mind on eugenics too if he'd lived

[navycat305]

Something something Max Jagerman prevented Pete from shooting his shot with Steph when he was alive by beating him up and then prevented Steph from shooting her shot with Pete as a ghost by stopping the fucking bullet she was trying to shoot him with

#the true transition from normal high school bully story to oh god oh fuck here comes the supernatural with a steel chair #starkid #nerdy prudes must die #max jagerman #stephanie lauter #peter spankoffski #original post #does this make sense? i don’t know #do I care? maybe. I get anxious about these things #npmd

[uncanny-tranny]

Something I love that some trans people do is talk about their pre-transition selves with no context as to their transition.

Like, if a trans woman talks about her past by saying, "when I was in Boy Scouts..." and never elaborates that she's trans and that there was a time where she was a boy scout. I just think that kind of normalization is great (and honestly, it can be funny when others are like "a GIRL in the BOY scouts?????? My life is changed")

#trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #mtf #nonbinary #i think normalization can/should look like being able to talk abour yourself pre-transition without couching it in 'i am trans. i am trans' #like that's not the focus of the story obviously!!! let the women talk about being in boy scouts without fear and explanation gddamnit!!!

[octolingrendezvous]

there are no strings on me

#a 2023 one...to be completely honest I don't really read the stories so I'm not sure if their relationship is still Bad #I just went off vibes #ensemble stars #enstars #natsume sakasaki #tsumugi aoba #my art #not splatoon #I haven't really drawn much splatoon recently I'm wondering if I should transition this blog to just my art or go back to being splatoon #my twitter is pretty much just my art already anyways

[umbrvx]

a villain’s journey

#scum villain's self saving system #svsss #luo binghe #shen qingqiu #shen yuan #finally read through the official localization.... it sent me right back to where i was when i first got into mxtx in 2019 #back then my art was kind of in a transitional period so even though mxtx had me making art like crazy i didnt like much of it #and nowadays my mxtx tl on twt has all but vanished... but once again these books have rejuvenated me creatively #and i feel like ive progressed enough to do justice for how these stories make me feel. and properly scratch that creative itch #anyways. i hardly ever ramble in tags like this but im so emo about these books and i finally feel creative again #so i hope this is able to spread that joy...! sort of. ehe

[lazylittledragon]

what do you mean youre technically a detransitioner cause of terf bullshit?

it's a v long story but i detransitioned for a couple of years when i was 16/17, for multiple reasons but mostly because i fell into the blaire white/kalvin garrah chamber of "you have to be This way to be trans otherwise you're not real".

i was already Deeply insecure about myself and my 'passing' and i was led to believe that i couldn't want to wear makeup or skirts, and i couldn't choose not to have bottom surgery, and i couldn't do anything but bind for 12+ hours a day to the point that my ribcage is still misshapen. basically i thought that if i wasn't suffering enough doing 'feminine' things, i couldn't really be trans, so i should just go back to being a girl and suck it up.

the terf bullshit is because i'd seen a lot of terfs/detransitioners talking about the 'dangers' of testosterone and how it would turn me into a horrible ugly evil monster and how there was nothing worse than wanting to be a man. which combined with 'you need to fully medically transition to be valid at all' creates some very dangerous and upsetting feelings to cope with.

it also came from trying really hard to put myself in a little box before i realised that my sexuality/gender are very fluid and it's FINE for me not to have a label and just do whatever i want. when i was 19 or so i went back to using they/them (and eventually he/him) and changed my name again because even though i like doing 'feminine' things, i don't want to be seen as a woman.

tldr: i was conditioned by transphobic/terf rhetorics to think that i was being trans the 'wrong' way so i couldn't be trans at all, so i believed i must actually be a girl if i still wanted to do 'feminine' things. nowadays i am a transmasc who does feminine things because i don't give two shits about what any transmed prick thinks of me anymore.

#ramble #ok to reblog btw i'm fine with this being shared #this was meant to be a short version but this is just the whole story whoops #sorry i realised the way i phrased it sounded like i'm the detrans you see in the news #i'm Technically a detransitioner because a lot of detrans stats are people who go on to RETRANSITION #because detransition is often because of social stigma and not because you realised you weren't trans #so anyway. terfs are cancer and if you don't think their bs is harming children you're wrong #i know it's easy to say 'you should've used your brain and realised those people were wrong' #but like. when you're 16 you're SO impressionable. even if you think you aren't #especially when you're watching people who have been transitioning longer than you and you assume they know everything #i was in my mid-late teens when 'transtrender' videos were MASSIVE and i believed it!!! and i was Not nice about those people #all they made me believe was that being trans couldn't be colourful and comfy and fun. it just had to be Pain #i hope everyone who contributed to the 'you need to be this way to be trans' mindset knows how much hurt they've caused #nowadays i don't care. go and be stargender. we have actual problems to deal with not debates about neopronouns #anyway this was long. that's the story

[maliciouscrow]

watched an old Doctor Who called “Hand of Fear” and thought “ooo what could that title mean” and then it turned out to just be literal hand that was scary

#doctor who #classic who #the hand also transitions abt 3/4th through the story but that’s not important

[sparklemaia]

this is me, wbu?

#top surgery #transition stories #gender euphoria #gender #trans #nonbinary #genderqueer #transmasc #comics #autobio comic #journal comic #personal #dysphoria #gender dysphoria #lgbtq #queer #disasters and other genders

[bread-tab]

I have a lot of chronic joint pains, due to Undiagnosed Bad Joints Syndrome. At the moment, gold and silver medals for the worst joint awards go to: hip (the baddest) and other hip (the wannabe).

Since a few weeks after starting T, my hips have gotten notably worse, with no other factor I could think of to explain it. I got worried. I spent the next several months continuing to be vaguely worried. Was it some sort of heretofore unknown side effect of testosterone injections? Would I have to go to the doctor about this and maybe get taken off HRT indefinitely? Could the UDBJS be catastrophically interacting with my hormones, causing all the connective tissue in my body to unravel like a cheap sweater?

Just as mysteriously, a couple weeks ago the pain in my hip joints started to ease up. (Partly because the weather warmed up and all my joints liked that.)

The other day I finally realized there's a much simpler explanation for why my hip joints were struggling. I was thinking, "man, I should start lifting weights! That would be a good way to exercise and keep up with the unreasonable speed at which the Niblet is growing."

And then it hit me. I've gained over 30 pounds since starting T. Ergo... my frickin legs are heavier.

🤦

#injection mention #needle mention #medical cw #hrt journey #transition stories #trans guy #genderbread tab #chronic pain #weight mention #disabilityblogging

[lockedtombbrainworms]

I think the funniest transgender headcanon for TLT is pre-lyctorhood Pyrrha Dve. She put so much goddamn effort into transitioning and then one day she woke up in Gideon the First's body like "aw dude what the FUCK? I have to do all that shit AGAIN??"

#she actually transitioned post-resurrection but Trans Ally John Gaius just uses she/her pronouns to refer to her in his story #the locked tomb #pyrrha dve #it is of course left as an exercise for the reader to determine whether or not she still had a massive cock post-transition

[americascomic]

I wrote this a year before I realized I was trans

#trans #egg moment #egg irl #transition story #trans femme

[caelanglang]

Gravity’s Gentleness...

Wooly Sunflowers (Eriophyllum lanatum) symbolize “Gentle Strength” 

source: Flowerpaedia by Cheralyn Darcey

This is heavily inspired by Story and Nawy’s (i’m too shy to tag them ><;;) ramble about Chuuya knowing (or not) how to be gentle... please read it! It’s so rich of brainworms and vitamin C(huuya)!!

#i'm trying to get back into writing (note: trying) #i hope the words and transitions don't feel too off i'm not that proud of my writing for this one jahklsjdfh #ofc theres flower language ehehehe #hi Story hi Nawy if you see this let me know if i should tag you guys for my future works with inspos taken from yall #yall dont know how much brainworms you guys feed me whenever i open this app actually #bsd #bsd nakahara chuuya #bsd chuuya #Nakahara Chuuya #prompt taken from #chuuya week 2023 #chuuyaweek23 #my art #my writing #my comic

[transmasccofee]

powerless au I have. Basically post meteor (and post reveal. the meteor kinda is the reveal. i’ll elaborate later) Kusuke makes an improved power remover using Kusuos dna which works but at the cost of getting rid of his shapeshifting.

#also its not angst i need to stress this #like there is angst in some parts but generally its a pretty happy story #focusing on the good parts of being trans and transitioning bc im trans and i like happy trans stories #saiki k #saiki k fanart #trans #art tag #edit i changed it to gel bc apparently T pills can cause liver damage