Tag: dysphoria

I was annoyed by the resizing/jpeging on this one, so I edited my own from the original

(the extra space between the D/Y is to match the R/I in HORRIBLE, the A/T in WHAT, etc. – the I, T, and Y in this font aren’t as wide as the other characters, but the font is set as monospaced, with those characters having their extra space on the left)

complete letter set via The Spriters Resource

modernabomination:

“real trans people don’t do this” “real trans people don’t do that” i mean, you say that, but would you really be able to look a trans woman post-vaginoplasty in the eye and tell her she’s a faker because she’s not completely put out by having body hair? ya gonna tell a trans man with phalloplasty that he’s a transtrender because he doesn’t cry whenever he puts on a skirt?

“you can tell they’re not trans because they’re doing this thing i’m not comfortable with” you’re 17, your dysphoria is crushing you, and you have little to no experience actually navigating the world as your transitioned gender. of COURSE certain things SEEM Too Cis™ for you to fathom, everything is too hard for you to fathom right now. you have no room for anyone else’s experiences because you’re too busy being miserable and loud about it.

pustluk:

i would have more faith in salvaging ‘gender dysphoria’ from its specific clinical history as a tactic if we weren’t already in the middle of a reactionary moral panic over trans people—whether they’re actual trans kids or hypothetical crossdressing bathroom opportunists—being paradoxically both over-medicalized (”doctors are pushing dangerous therapies on kids who say they’re trans”) and under-medicalized (”it’s harmful that more people are identifying as trans without clinical diagnosis and supervision”).

like, i’m not actually sure ‘gender dysphoria’ can be meaningfully divorced from a history of violent pathogization when that history is ongoing, and when the social and psychiatric pathologization of gender variance is clearly getting worse.

ordinaryitem:

i’m glad people are continuing to call this shit out but like at this rate she is never going to leave tumblr and in order for her to stop having any influence on here, there are a ton of cis women and trans men/afab nonbinary people on this website who will have to reckon with the fact that the whole “being afab is an inherently dysphoric experience”, a line of thinking that has been HEAVILY pushed by butchcommunist & her friends, is based in transmisogynist and transphobic beliefs 

ladyisak:

i think like, we went a bit too far in “you don’t need dysphoria as described by the capitalist, profit-driven, patriarchal medical system to be trans” and now people think dysphoria is just like mild discomfort or unhappiness w/ one’s body and not smth that has literally driven people to suicide

this is absolutely about the gremlins that spread around that dysphoria is a common AFAB experience, or even a universal AFAB experience. like. so all cis women dissociate from their bodies to the extent they can ignore partial dislocations? all cis women get nauseous just looking in the mirror? all cis women want to cut their breasts off and fantasise about it regularly? all cis women don’t recognise their faces in the mirror, in photographs, on film?