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Growing Up Trans

Started by Amelia Pond, August 14, 2013, 09:00:52 AM

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Amelia Pond

August 14, 2013, 09:00:52 AM
Growing Up Trans
ALISSA QUART, 8/14/13

http://www.thedailybeast.com/witw/articles/2013/08/14/republic-of-outsiders-beyond-feminism-and-the-transgendered-community.html

When I spoke to gender non-conforming people in their twenties, they told me the people they met online were far more influential and helpful as they started to transition than the counselors who advised them in person on transitioning. They told me they are going online constantly, reading forums and message boards written by people like them.

Thousands of parents of "gender-variant" kids are also meeting online: Gender Spectrum's website encourages the idea of living in the "in between" spaces of gender.

Writing—books, lectures, manifestos, blogs, tweets—are the tools of transformation. And for those with transformed physiques that they offer up for their digital cameras, from the vantage of the computer screen, these can seem a kind of text also: flesh itself that has been edited and revised.
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