Any zoomers here grow up not knowing fully about trans people? I didn't know about hrt growing up and my mom constantly made fun of gay feminine men so I didn't really explore the idea of wanting to be a girl until high school.Ace Ventura pet detective confused me as a kid (in so many ways) with it's ending. I didn't know about transitioning.I wish I had watched Jazz Jennings when I was a kid, I wonder if that show would've helped. Laverne Coxs character in OITNB was pretty cool and made me a lot less self hating but didn't convince me to outright transition (I thought it was all surgeries)I finally transitioned after seeing a passing trans woman talk about hrt online. This is also right around when euphoria came out and that show would've done it had I not already been trooning.I'm so stupid /TTTT/ I boymoded all of fucking high school to avoid getting bullied, I wish I had started sooner so badly. I wish I had been in a female friend group instead or something.When picrel happened I remember everyone at my school making fun of her.
>>43813869I'm an older zoomer and I had no idea what trannies wereMy family didn't watch tv because we couldn't afford cable, I had youtube but I'd watch either gamers or gay guys like markiplier or davey wavey desuif i ever saw a tranny in porn or some where I thought they were just born like that or smth
>>43813993I never really saw tranny porn growing up so I never had that happen lol
I had no idea what a tranny was until I was 16 or so. I knew there were transvestites (crossdressers) but nothing about hrt or surgeries
>>43814156Similarly story here but it's more that I didn't make the connection between it all.
>>43813869yep, no computer or smartphone growing up. I never even heard of pride or knew it was at all okay to be gay until I was 17.
>>43814156Pretty much the same for me. I knew of herms and transvestites through porn, both of which didn't really reflect my dysphoria since it was highly sexualized with the later being treated as men to appeal to those with that fetish. By the time I understood what transgender/sexual was, I had already convinced myself that my dysphoria and divergent behaviors as a cisgendered male was normal because I was bi and effeminate men are a thing. It took a long while after that to reconcile with the fact that most effeminate men don't deal with dysphoria or have any desire live their life as the other gender. They're comfortable as they are, not just content.
>>43813869How the hell can zoomers not know about trannies? I was searching "how to become a girl" on AltaVista as soon as we got dialup.
>>43815055First exposure to the concept being sissyboomerhon crossies that terrify you into not doing that again
>>43813869My understanding of trans people came from Mrs Garrison on South Park. I thought someone goes to the doctor and gets a bunch of surgery and gets filled with plastic and becomes some monstrous facimile of a woman and then they've "transitiond". I also knew of Caitlyn Jenner but she didn't really disprove this perception to me. I didn't know hrt was a thing or how it worked until near the end of highschool. I transitioned without ever having met another trans woman irl.I did also meet couple ftm/ftnb people throughout high school but they all just gave the impression of transness being where you have an obligation to use the opposite pronouns for someone and that's it, so it didn't really change the overall perception for me.
>>43815088This desu>This is a man being a womanand it's an unshaven 60 year old balding man in petticoats
>>43813869I knew what being gay meant at a very young age because I'd watch the Simpsons and Family Guy as a little kidI knew since about 9 or 10 there were "men pretending to be women" thanks to Jerry Springer but I knew nothing about gender dysphoria or HRT or shit until I was 16 when all the tranny shit became mainstream
>>43815118Younger zoomers don't know how good they have it. Literally a difference of like 3 years is massive with all of the Tranny Nexus Events of the 2010s.
I knew zero about anything queer until middle school when someone had to explain a joke about lesbians to me, and nothing about trans people until I had regular internet access at 16(after whichI promptly transitioned). In hindsight I likely met a non binary kid at 11 but I thought they were a hermaphrodite; which I learned from animals, i didn't know anything about sex variation in humans>I wish I had watched Jazz Jennings when I was a kidYea same, I stopped watching the channel that came on 2 years before it aired otherwise I bet I could have trooned at 14 after seeing it. >>43815055By the time I had the physical ability to use a computer let alone regular internet access I thought I had enough grasp of biology to think it was an impossibility so there was no reason to search it. I had to learn about trannies by chance.
>ITT: zoomers only just now realizing that none of this knowledge about trannies was common AT ALL up until ~10 years agoI'm 32. When I was a kid there was no "transgender". There were crossdresser predators and transvestite freaks. HRT? Blockers? What is that? There was exactly 1 (one) kid who was likely a boymoder in my high school year that got relentlessly bullied by everyone, just for being a flamer. All this stuff about dysphoria was completely unknown. There were no guidance counselors helping you. In fact, if you did talk to one about gender stuff, you'll likely get home to a pissed off parent who got a phone call about "your child's disturbing mental patterns". For me, there wasn't just one person in my life saying negative things about gays or expressing any form of femininity. It was faggot this, faggot that, don't be a faggot; why are you so upset that someone bullied you publicly for having excessive back hair? What are you, a faggot? It was society wide, on almost every level. I was fortunate my parents were and still are fairly understanding of LGBT stuff. But that was an exception, not a rule, 20 years ago. But I self repressed any feminine expression for literal decades anyways, because that was the expectation and it was how I survived. You are all so, so lucky to have grown up in the era you did. And it's incredibly sad to see all of that positive change be flushed down the fucking toilet because Matt Walsh made a shirty propaganda film and it turned out to be a political winner. Because the people who called me a faggot back then never actually changed. And now they're using the extremely minor social pressure of not being allowed to say slurs in polite company as an excuse to have me genocided and destroy any knowledge of the transgender experience.
you're faketrans if you've never had the formative experience of watching a cartoon's obligatory body/gender swap episode and thinking "that wouldn't be so bad", honourable mention to the bit in the Scooby Doo movie where Fred and Shaggy become Daphne and Velma
>>43813869ace ventura, silence of the lambs, jerry springer, and susansplace were my earliest exposuresnaturally, I repressed until I was a 30 year old man with hair losssucks to suck
>>43813869i always had dysphoria but growing up i didnt even know trans people were thing then i saw online for the first time trans people and ended up repping a few years because of my family being so terrible towards trans people, i ruined it all only if i started as soon as i understood maybe i still had a chance
>>43815088Sissy bommerhons where also my first exposure and honestly a big reason I repped. I didn't know what being trans was until Caitlyn Jenner happened and by that point I was half way through high school.
>>43816076Yep! This is what happens. When she came out my first thought was "I'm never going to be able to afford that" because all everyone ever talked about was surgery so the best thing I had in mind was to just try and ignore it and keep on living.
>>43816068>>43816032fellow old here, for me, it was a documentary about a theymab clinical sexologist imc (great person!) where their appearance and behavior was roundly mocked in the national media, even though the film was overall well-received.
>>43816098I'll still never be able to afford that but as a teen who at the time was going to the mall alone to try on women's clothes to get some sliver of euphoria and knew deep down inside a woman. This in my mind cemented that you don't have to live as a man and can change was pivitol for me eventually trooning out.
>>43816068>>43816176Glad to see I'm not alone out here. I hope these zoomers ITT read these posts and get some perspective on things
>>43816272There was not a single other soul I knew who wasn't extremely shitty about Jenner when she came out so for me it was just "I would need to do this without anyone knowing and it will cost money I will never have" so pretty brutal. Clothing was just out of the question since I wasn't really allowed to even wear tshirts.
>>43813869I didn't know about trannies but funnily enough I found out about hrt around my preteens I think, after hitting puberty I got some extreme body image issues, and found out about hrt while looking up how to increase testosterone ironically, then I tried to get a paper round to get "hobby" money but never found one so that plan fell through, but around the same time external factors demanded me to be as masculine and strong as possible so I went the opposite direction, but as soon as I escaped the physical abuse I was kinda lost, but stuck in the same mindset, just abentmindedly forcing myself to look as masculine as possible because that was the only acceptable thing to do for like 4.5 years, until I couldn't take torturing myself anymore and hopped on hrt, im still a man though, I just gave up on forcing myself to look more like one, when I'd rather look the complete opposite
>>43813869I knew of trans men but my dumbass could not put two and two together to figure out the opposite was true. As far as i was concerned me wanting to be a girl was a shameful feeling that i should not entertain. had very little access to internet growing up and was a quiet kid that didnt really pay attention to what was going on be it from my peers or in the news. ended up trying to transition via a doctor in my late teens but it couldnt happen for various reasons so i repressed till 21 so now im a disgusting hon that no man will ever love
>>43816032same. in 30 and i had zero knowledge of trannies outside of ace ventura until i was like 21 and these kids have no idea how homophobic the world used to be a mere 2 decades ago. i didnt know that hrt existed, i didnt even know TRANSITIONING existed. and as soon as i found out i started going for it, but zoomers will still call me faketrans for not having been on hrt since 16 or something
>>43817053Ace Ventura is such a crazy philosophical question in regard to what's valid for trans. Is a trans women without dysphoria who does it for the sake of murder and revenge valid? Is a trans woman without dysphoria who does it for money and fame valid? I would still lean toward the 2nd since they're doing it as a form of expression rather than a plot to kill a dolphin. Both are still objectively trans but it kinda still comes down to intent. One wants to live as a woman to be a woman. The other just wants to be a woman to further a vendetta and nothing else.
>>43816076Same, and that's why good representation is so important. Not to appease the haters but to make a good first impression for the people that need it. >>43815311Trvth nuke that doesn't get talked about enough.
>>43813869You should have tried life as a transsexual millenial.
>>43817936Genuinely Caitlyn Jenner happening when I was 12 instead of 15 would have changed so muchThe chances of me being a youngshit would have been so much higher
>>43817053It's incredible just how far things have come and how much more general knowledge there is out there. It's annoying when youngshits get the holier than thou attitude towards hons, but genuinely I'm happy for them. I just wish I had what they had back in the day.
>>43816176What was the documentary, if I may ask?
>>43818586https://letterboxd.com/film/all-about-my-father/
By the time I knew it was possible to change your gender i was already knee deep in coping and repressing. I never had a moment growing up of "i wish I was a girl" because all my feminine traits were crushed out of me before I could understand anything. I latched to the idea of femboys for years. Eventually I cracked thank god.
i didn’t really know what a tranny was until i was a teenager. i watched jazz jennings and thought that she was just so lucky to be born like that or something
