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If you're reading this, introduce yourself and say hi! (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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I know you're out there! If you're part of /c/TransLater, make yourself heard!

Maybe some questions will help.

Tell us your name and where are you from? Maybe a bit about yourself

What do you enjoy spending your time on?

How have things been going as you navigate the combination of "Trans" and "Later" in your life?

What's a question you have for other folk in the sub?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Welcome, and congrats on navigating NHS!

As for navigating trans culture, it can be quite alienating sometimes as an older trans person who grew up with a very different exposure to gender diversity. But what you're seeing are the new generations, navigating gender diverse identities, but with more freedom than you or I were ever afforded. We missed out on our own queer culture, because it mostly wasn't allowed to exist, and when it did, it existed on the terms of a queerphobic society. The folk following us aren't free from that queerphobia either, but they're less defined and constrained by it.

I think all we can do is try and be happy that we have a culture at all, even if it's sometimes an odd fit for those of us that predate it

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Thank you, I don't think I meant for it to sound quite as bitter or judgy but yes, there is absolutely an element of jealousy in that they have a freedom of expression that was just never acceptable to us. I'm happy it exists even if I do struggle to relate to it.