I don't feel pride in being trans. I don't even really feel pride in being pansexual now that I think about it. I feel like I have a burden that the vast majority can't truly understand and don't take seriously at best. I see trans people online being posting the trans pride flag and memes about how much they love being trans but I just don't feel that way. I feel ashamed of myself more than anything.

  • sailor_redstar [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    I'm not sure if I feel 'pride' in being trans (maybe in surviving while trans in a harsh world), but I still have a positive view of being trans. I was just really happy that I could be a girl, when my egg was cracking, and that I has solved a reason why my life wasn't right before. Now what I do resent is the reactionary capitalist society we live in that at the very best just doesn't take us seriously. We are subject to constantly being made to feel invalid, etc, etc, existing in spite of that is indeed something to be proud of. Anyway, yeah I view it as instead of internalizing the negativity, correctly externalize it back onto where it came from.