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R/trans is a fucking mess (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/ftm@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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Not me, but if you’ve been following the drama, they removed this post about the unique issues we face as “divisive.”

It fucking sucks. There’s been a lot of discussion in other trans masc spaces about “transandrophobia” and this seems to absolutely demonstrate it. We aren’t treated seriously in spaces that should be welcoming for us.

People assume “trans” means trans woman. Spaces for trans people are often for trans women. Jamison Green wrote a while back about us not really having our own community, decades ago, and it still feels true today.

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[–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

this sadly seems to be an age thing. LGBTQI+ was a taboo topic for centuries before the 2000s, it has become better but many older people can not comprehend that what they were taught all their life, to suddenly accept. I can observe this here in Germany, especially eastern Germany, most people over the age of 50 will not accept you, if you are different to their perceived norm

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    most people over the age of 50 will not accept you, if you are different to their perceived norm

    Yes, people take over the norms they learned from their social environment when they were young and most stop adapting them to social progress that happened when they are older.

    Since the GDR heavily imposed the traditional family to push birth rates (e.g. you basically had to get married to get a flat), even homosexuality is a strange and foreign concept to many people who grew up in this environment of enforced cultural conformism.

    It will be interesting to see how this changes when newer generations get old, since society is much more pluralist nowadays.

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