Tumblr Communities?

[timbuck2]

This. Between the "I want cute pronouns too", "call me bunself", "I have no dysphoria whatsoever, you just need to learn to love your body too" crowd, and the bizarre hostility between a certain trans women group and trans men, I'm not getting involved in that mess. It's worse than disgusting, it's dangerous at times with the doxing going on.

There are posts by younger trans people saying they came out to their parents, and their parents Googled around and found this "bunself" stuff and think that's what being transgender means. It's causing real harm.

I feel like we either follow eachother on there or have been coming across all of the exact same posts xD
It's disconcerting how so many young kids want to fit in with trans people despite having absolutely no symptoms whatsoever. Completely comfortable in their own bodies, not understanding the struggle so many of us go through, and trying so desperately to be non conformist by conforming to some shiny new label they found on the internet.

Bashing cis people and telling everyone to love their body for what it is doesnt make me think your trans, it makes me think you've got a lot of internal self hatred you need to work on.

[wheat thins are delicious]

I despise the trans community on Tumblr. Obviously not all of the individuals there are bad, but just...oh my god. Seeing all the posts about how you need severe dysphoria to be trans, or how you should only start HRT if you'll kill yourself/harm yourself if you don't, all of that actually made me start doubting whether or not I'm trans. I started feeling like I was a fake and I was fooling myself, because...I don't know, because I don't have terrible dysphoria or because I want to go on testosterone, but I wouldn't be suicidal if I didn't. But then I decided I'm not going to let people on the Internet tell me who I am. Lots of trans people have similar stories to myself, and they've seen therapists and given the go-ahead to start HRT. No-one ranting over the Internet is going to make me question my identity ever again. Those people are just poisonous, so destructive and do more harm than good, for the most part.

That said, Tumblr itself I like, mostly. Coming across a trans guy on Tumblr is actually the reason I decided to finally explore how I'd been feeling for a long time, and how I eventually realised I was trans.

I've never seen anyone on Tumblr claim you need severe dysphoria to be trans, just dysphoria.  Nor have I seen anyone say you should only start HRT if you'll kill yourself.

[CursedFireDean]

I've never seen anyone on Tumblr claim you need severe dysphoria to be trans, just dysphoria.  Nor have I seen anyone say you should only start HRT if you'll kill yourself.

I think there's two types of trans people on tumblr: the nice people who blog about their transition, and the jerks/immature kids/etc. If you haven't run into the latter, I'm jealous :/

[Nikotinic]

The main problem I have with the trans community on Tumblr is that it's basically divided itself into factions which spend most of their time insulting each other. Sometimes I see more posts questioning the validity of other people's trans experience that I do people just talking about their own trans experience.

It particularly annoys me that people get called transtrenders, and that people say that teens are just being trans to be cool. Because we all know that being transgender is so easy, and society is so accepting, and this is totally something that people do by choice that gets them lots of friends.......

I think that it's highly likely that there are a bunch of young people on Tumblr who are just experimenting with their gender and maybe some of them will go on to transition permanently, and maybe some of them will realise that they are happy with their birth gender and that's fine too. I don't see why anyone should attack or belittle them for it.

There also seems to be a big bias against non-binary folk on Tumblr - If you don't consider yourself 100% male or 100% female then you aren't welcome.

Sometimes there is great content on there and I do follow a couple of trans guys who post interesting stuff but it is definitely not a safe space a lot of people.

[Bimmer Guy]

I wouldn't get into Tumblr if someone offered to pay me.

Immature bunch of a-holes over there from what I've seen.  No thank you.

I've never been on tumblr.

'course I've never been on Facebook, either.   

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I feel like we either follow eachother on there or have been coming across all of the exact same posts xD
It's disconcerting how so many young kids want to fit in with trans people despite having absolutely no symptoms whatsoever. Completely comfortable in their own bodies, not understanding the struggle so many of us go through, and trying so desperately to be non conformist by conforming to some shiny new label they found on the internet.

Bashing cis people and telling everyone to love their body for what it is doesnt make me think your trans, it makes me think you've got a lot of internal self hatred you need to work on.

I don't have a Tumblr, but maybe we're both reading some blogs in common.
The "die cis scum" posts need to stop, too. Reverse discrimination doesn't do anybody any good. It's not going to "teach them what it feels like to be discriminated against" (some people actually claim this reasoning behind the "die cis scum" posts). Breeding more hostility is not a smart way to address discrimination.

Judging by some posts in this thread, in contrast to the "I have no dysphoria but want cute pronouns" crowd there is also a problem on Tumblr of "you aren't trans if you aren't about to commit suicide due to extreme dysphoria". I wonder if the latter isn't some kind of misguided backlash against the former. Tumblr has a lot of misguided backlash.

[Nygeel]

Tumblr is whatever you make of it. You can have great experiences, you can have terrible experiences. It's a really mixed crowd of people. "EFF" yeah FTMs (censoring myself) is a popular page. I think it has some big problems but if you want to find people, check that out.