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Not a trans person, but I’ve gotten to know a few and taught myself quite a bit, so I feel I can explain it in more or less a nutshell.
Someone is transgender when their gender identity - how masculine, feminine, some combination of both, or neither someone feels and whether or not that changes over time - is different from the sex they were assigned based on their genitalia at birth. For most people the two will line up, but for others, for reasons which aren’t yet well understood, they will diverge from one another.
Despite what many might say to the contrary, gender identity and sex are not the same thing, and truth be told, neither of them are black and white binaries. Gender identity can be masculine or feminine, and that’s the case for most, but you can also have people who identify with both or neither, whom are usually termed as genderqueer or nonbinary. Sex has been traditionally determined by genitalia, which is a satisfactory indicator for most, but there are so many more factors that go into it, such as hormones, genes, and other anatomical characteristics, and sex represents all the possible multitudes of combinations of these, not just the typical XX with a vulva and XY with a penis.
It’s kind of a hard topic to explain…
What exactly is a transgender? I’ve always heard that it’s just people that are gender confused and think they’re the opposite gender of their birth gender.
Just how I see it though.
Sure as hell would have helped me when I was a kid.
Instead I grew up with no good representations of people like me. Every time a trans person was featured on any show, they were either psychotic or murdered — and that was adult shows. There wasn’t anyone like me on kids’ shows, at least not the ones I watched. I didn’t even learn what being transgender meant until I was 16… and by then, I was so deep in denial that it took me another five years, and two suicide attempts, before I realized that I was trans.
If someone had explained it all to me when I was 6, I would have known I was a girl before I turned 7.
Transgender youth need representation. They need someone to tell them that their feelings are valid, their gender is valid, that they’re not a “freak” for being trans. If there were even the slightest bit of fair representation in children’s media, I assure you the suicide rate for trans people would drop well below the current mark of 41%. Think about that for a second — two out of five transgender people have attempted suicide at some point in their lives.
All because we’ve been told from birth that we’re wrong just for being ourselves.
(Sorry for ranting; this is just a topic that means a whole lot to me, if you couldn’t tell.)
wouldn’t they be less accepting in the country though?
Who all have the same cutie mark.
Seems about right…
Oh, let me play you a sad song on the world’s smallest violin