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Resources:

Best resource: https://github.com/cvyl/awesome-transgender Site with links to resources for just about anything.

Trevor Project: crisis mental health services for LGBTQ people, lots of helpful information and resources: https://www.thetrevorproject.org/

The Gender Dysphoria Bible: useful info on various aspects of gender dysphoria: https://genderdysphoria.fyi/en

StainedGlassWoman: Various useful essays on trans topics: https://stainedglasswoman.substack.com/

Trans resources: https://trans-resources.info/

[USA] Resources for trans people in the South: https://southernequality.org/resources/transinthesouth/#provider-map

[USA] Report discrimination: https://action.aclu.org/legal-intake/report-lgbtqhiv-discrimination

[USA] Keep track on trans legislation and news: https://www.erininthemorning.com/

[GERMANY] Bundesverband Trans: Find medical trans resources: https://www.bundesverband-trans.de/publikationen/leitfaden-fuer-behandlungssuchende/

[GERMANY] Trans DB: Insurance information (may be outdated): https://transdb.de/

[GERMANY] Deutsche Gesellschaft für Transidentität und Intersexualität: They have contact information for their advice centers and some general information for trans and intersex people. They also do activism: dgti.org

*this is a work in progress, and these resources are courtesy of users like you! if you have a resource that helped you out in your trans journey, comment below in the pinned post and I'll add here to pass it on

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EDIT: Don't vote on this poll if you don't interact/lurk in this community somewhat regularly. This survey is for those people.

Hi everyone,

I made a survey to better gauge the demographics of this community. I don't have any reason to, just doing it out of curiosity.

I'm glad that everyone felt free to talk about it in detail and have some good discussion on my previous post, but it made it hard to count all those comments up. Someone suggested that I do this to get more accurate results.

The poll ends on April 6th at 11pm. I'll post the results when it's over. You can also view the live results of the poll on the website.

Might make a future one for sexuality. Data is fun, what can I say.

What are your predictions for this poll?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Comment under here with your answer if it won't allow you to vote. Keep it to the choices on the survey if you will.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Binary Trans woman :)

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Cis men are heavily outnumbering even binary trans women right now...I think this leaked onto all

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

Or you may have more allies than you think.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

I think polls like this are susceptible to troll votes

[–] felykiosa 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Yup i m a cis man myself abd foynd it on général but I interact frequently with this community so I think it s ok

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

That's fine

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think you are a Frenchman as well.

[–] felykiosa 2 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

a lot of people are on this instance solely for 196 and/or because of v*ush

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

vaush is a problematic internet debate nerd that a lot of younger baby leftists latch on to.

~~He recommended this instance because 196 had a comm here iirc.~~

His subreddit recommended it during the reddit/spez stuff.

196 also recommended blahaj.zone and they had a big vaush following in their userbase.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Why is vaush problematic? I'm out of the loop

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

He's been known to have chaser-y tendencies, he's been casually misogynistic and racist for the sake of winning "debates", he's been known to defend lowering the age of consent as well as the production of CSAM(child sexual abuse material), and most recently he's been known to collect loli and zoophilic (not furry) hentai.

"problematic" was me being generous.

He's the main reason 196 is so sectarian/"anti-tankie" as he has a lot of fans that post there.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Wow and here am I thinking it's common sense to be anti tankie bc of 196

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I (ex tankie) thougt because of the anti takie sentiment in 196 that there were a lot of ppl in general that were againat takies, but this vaush stuff makes a lot more sense

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Ah alright, yeah a lot of anti-tankie sentiment is concentrated online. Other spaces tend to be a lot less sectarian or at least more willing to listen/put aside differences.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Thank you for taking the time to explain it to me. I'll definitely avoid that guy's channel.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

He recommended this instance

He what?! When did that happen?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I'll be honest I think I confused his subreddit with him.

https://www.reddit.com/r/VaushV/comments/14ny7py/horsefuck_okbv_had_reopened_however_we_reclosed/

The meme group made a com here (it has 331 subs but seems to be mostly dead at the moment)

196 also made a post with lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/196 mentioned

https://www.reddit.com/r/196/comments/146y2qw/r196_offsite_migration_discord_info/

Reddit 196 has(had?) a lot of vaushites in their userbase and so that carried over here.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Ally from all here. Surprised by all the CIS myself.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Haha. All the cis men.

I wonder what they would all choose a year from now 😘

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I questioned and came to the conclusion that I'm quite happy where I am.

My partner is nonbinary though, so I lurk in these sorts of spaces so I have at least a little bit of community awareness and understanding.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

Well that makes me happy to know there are allies like you ❤️

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Eh, I just browse 'all'. Would I chose to be a woman if I had the chance at birth? Likely yes. But I quite like my ding-dong either way 😄

I am however quite jealous of women's fashion, the big scarfs, big wooly jumpers, and flowy textiles.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

Oh boy.

Only thing I will say is many trans woman also have the same sentiment about their original bits.

Nothing but love ✌️

[–] southsamurai 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Fwiw, the impression I get is that there are a goodly number of cis folks here, with the intent of being supportive and learning more. I know that's why I'm here. It makes me happy when I see people that have a difficulty in their lives find a path to their own happiness.

I may not like every trans person I've ever met, but I love trans people.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Totally agree and my comment was completely in jest ❤️

Honestly it's refreshing to see support. Especially on the Internet where there is so much hate for us...

So thanks for speaking up and letting us know you exist 🥰

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I like to keep aware of trans issues, discourse and general stuff so I can be more supportive of my boyfriend. Also if I see someone struggling with something he conquered, I'd love to be able to pass on anything that can help.

I love him dearly and I kinda see me trying to keep aware of trans stuff in my social media circles similar to him keeping aware of Jewish stuff in his social media circles.

Also, queer solidarity. ✊️

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

That is so beautiful of you. Thank you for being such a great support for your boyfriend and the community as a whole :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Voted as cis man, have questioned but still haven't really felt too out of place how I am. I did feel extremely distressed probably outside of how a normal person would react when I noticed I was getting male pattern baldness however

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

For a second there this community was 100% binary trans men, haha

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

A minor point but you only have 3 of the 5 nonbinary options. AFAB she/theys and AMAB he/theys aren't represented in the options.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Sorry, didn't mean to exclude. It won't let me edit the survey now unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

I'd pick "amab he/they" if it were there, very happy just to tick the "non-binary" button, don't feel excluded!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Btw, there's a deep annual survey at https://www.gendercensus.com . It's not specifically about this community, and excludes purely cis-binary people, but has interesting data & trends if you're into this sort of thing.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's fantastic. When the new survey comes out please let us know.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You can add yourself to their mailing list to be notified.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

To clarify, that census specifically targets folk that aren't on the binary. Cis binary and trans binary folk aren't part of the target audience

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Prediction: there will a higher percentage of genderfluid people because i misread some people's comments on the other one

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Give us a gender slider!

[–] thr0w4w4y2 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Weird. I remember allowing VPN voting.

[–] thr0w4w4y2 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

maybe that’s why only the cis are voting - anyone remotely questioning of gender identity online daren’t browse without a VPN.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Comment under my other comment and I'll add you to the final count

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

What about adding the poll temporarily to the community resources section?

That way it is not just in everyone's feed, and it takes a little more efforty to participate. I'm active here, but I found this community through cross instance bleedover.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I'm Agender and Isogender, definatey one of the more unique identities and gender modalities.

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