Quote from: Brandon on September 26, 2013, 05:15:51 PM
You really wanna know how many times My manhood has gotten questioned? Alot And it was way worse then that, Ive been told I'm not a man just because I don't have a dick and alot worse
Brandon, I've been dysphoric since 1976. I'm willing to bet the farm that you have no idea how many times
my manhood has been questioned in those 37 years. That's more than twice as long as you've been
alive. Dude, do you have any clue how much more cissexist, transphobic and homophobic the world was in the 1970s & 1980s?
My dysphoria didn't get easier by a magic dick suddenly appearing in my underwear, or expecting other people to solve my problems for me. I've had to battle against almost insurmountable odds in some
very unaccepting parts of the world for every single improvement I've made. I've lived in countries where I could be arrested and sentenced to death for being gay and/or trans*. And all of us who have been to hell and back are trying to give you the benefit of our experience.
When I first came out to myself as trans*, there was nobody I could talk to. The Internet hadn't been invented yet. Most of the people at Susan's hadn't transitioned. But you? You have a wonderful support network available to you, comprised of thousands of people all over the world who get what you're going through. We're not paid to sit here and help you; we're unpaid volunteers who have our own lives, jobs, families, health problems and other dramas. Please don't let such a precious gift go to waste.
'Dickum testiculosa!' is not a
Harry Potter spell. But it bloody well should be.
Quote from: Brandon on September 26, 2013, 05:50:58 PM
Well I don't know about you I feel quite dumb saying I'm a man who gets his dang period every month, Yea we are men but men are not suppose to get thoes women are who it is intended for but because were female bodied yes we get them
This is what we mean: whatever you may have intended to say, the words you have used tonight are offensive to men on this Board who happen to menstruate; those words insinuate that we're women. We get enough of that out in the real world; we come here to escape that sort of nonsense.
Periods are not 'intended'; there is no master plan. They are simply a physiological phenomenon experienced by mammals who have a certain combination of hormones and organs. The overwhelming majority of those mammals are not women.