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  • crispyhexagon [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    good video.

    transitioning not being a point-a to point-b thing that ends and presto there you are, seems to me an important part of recognizing yourself for yourself.

    that is, "becoming" a [gender] during the transition isnt accurate because you already are that gender, instead what you transition is your presentation, to conform more closely with the idea of that gender.

    has any cis person looked in the mirror and said to themself "no, thats quite enough attractiveness for this week, what i really need is some ugly" ?

    ups and downs or weeks where self care that ought to have been done didnt get done (shaving sucks) doesnt make someone less who they are.

    point being, we all want to look good, whatever that might mean to us, right? falling short of the ideal doesnt invalidate you

      • crispyhexagon [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        yeah, i didnt really mean "beauty" so much as... acceptably gendered appearance? which "normal" has some element of being an acceptable level of attractive, right? so... idk. words, yknow? not-dysphoria works i suppose

        "doing is being" is very much what i was speaking to, but obviously there is always some element of "becoming"

        thats more or less why dysphoria is a thing, no? a split between outward and inward self image. so "becoming" the inward self by changing the outward.

        so in order to be, you do, and in doing so, you become, and then continuing on, you do again, and become something else thats a bit more becoming.

        so its all very cyclic, but the common representation is usually a linear sort of thing, which doesnt include that vagary between wasnt and am, where maybe you dont even realise how much you are.

        if.. that made sense. idk im not as think as you drunk i am okay.

        point being, your experience is yours, so.. yes

        edit: and its not even like you need dysphoria to be trans, so some of this definitely doesnt even make sense in that context at all

          • crispyhexagon [none/use name]
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            4 years ago

            taking salvia in the gender desert, just to find out you forgot to wear pants and now your book report is late, but thats fine because theres a really cool lizard print skirt that goes swishyswishy.

            for sure.