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Do you have any dysphoria triggers that make you feel rather silly?

I just bought a nice secondhand car a little while back. Great car, and I'm mad about it, but one thing drives me crazy and makes me rather depressed. When I start the engine, some of the dashboard lights come on temporarily. The one for the airbags is SRS.

I have thought about covering it up with a bit of masking tape, but that would simply call attention to it, and I would always have to remember to remove the tape every time I take the car in for servicing. Anyway, I would feel kind of stupid driving around with a piece of tape over the light. As stupid as I feel for letting the light get me down in the first place.

Ttthhhhhppppttt.

When little kids would rather play with the girls and avoid me and the other "guys" thats a damn silly dysphoria trigger...

When I was a kid I was incensed by that stupid rhyme about girls being made of "sugar and spice and all things nice" and boys of "frogs and snails and puppy dog tails" - I mean seriously, what the #%&@?!?!

Been watching back episodes of Ugly Betty. There's a MtF character played by a cisgendered female supermodel. I know the actress is cisgender, and I know she's a supermodel IRL, considered one of the most beautiful women in the world, but I still catch myself thinking, why couldn't I look like that after my transition.

When I was a kid, my mom told me I would one day want soft skin. For some reason, I feel dysphoric about my skin.

One time my SO wrote about how I would 'never want a baby inside me for obvious reasons' while discussing parenting on this message board we both participated in. Visions of the chestburster from Alien came to mind, and oh god no no way no. Needless to say we had a nice talk in private about how it isn't that I don't want kids inside me, it is that having one inside me is physically and biologically impossible. As in not possible, regardless of what the doctors would say. Looking back it was kind of silly and nit-picky of me to get that upset about it, since my SO meant no harm. Tis the nature of the beast I guess.

Most days I drive past a shop called Trans T-Shirts. It probably has nothing to do with transgender but I scowl every time.

Trans fats are bad fats. I read every food label.

Translational medicine ( I hear it many times a day at work).

Quote from: suzifrommd on January 26, 2014, 09:16:05 AM
Been watching back episodes of Ugly Betty. There's a MtF character played by a cisgendered female supermodel...

Yeah, why do they do that? I hate that! Surely there are trans* actors and actresses out there. There's a series coming out here in Australia made by a local broadcaster about Carlotta (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlotta_(performer)) - one of our most prominent trans gender performers...and guess what? She being played by a cis gender woman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Marais)!! Now apparently Carlotta herself is a producer on this, so her choice presumably...but why? :(

At least when Elementary featured a trans* character (http://thedefinitionofnerd.blogspot.com.au/2013/04/elementary-miss-hudson-new-transexual.html) she was played by a real trans woman.

When I see a guy with a typically "trans" name. And they usually end up being trans too which doesn't help lol.

Two things:

1.) I'm responsible for facilitating a major cultural change in my workplace, so we talk about "transition planning" a lot. On several occasions, my supervisor has said words to the effect of "not everyone will have the skills to transition effectively". Hurts.

2.) The car across the street has a license plate that starts with HRT. It's often the first thing I see when I leave the house.  :-\

STP oil type products.

Another bugaboo is the "low T" commercials I've seen running recently. Fortunately, I usually FF through the commercials (or I run to the loo if I can't fast forward), but I hate that reminder that my "low T" is just a wee bit different from most other guys' low T. I look at TV and DVDs as an escape. Well, not always.

Whenever I hear dfab people talk about their periods and how bad they are or whatever it makes me think I don't deserve to be a woman because I haven't been through that pain, to the point where whenever I have any kind of stomachache I pretend its cramps.

At work we use translucent vinyls and everyone calls them "trans" like they'll say "it's the trans" when pointing to a roll of a specific color. That for some reason annoys me to no end.
Also my wife when it's her time of the month tends to say "You're lucky you'll never have to deal with this" as she gets awful cramps and I mean I understand her reasoning behind saying it but it still stings a little hearing it. I guess that isn't a ridiculous trigger or it might be, don't know but thought I'd share.

Quote from: Cynthia Michelle on January 26, 2014, 10:31:53 AM
Trans fats are bad fats. I read every food label.

Every time I hear "trans fats" I think of how much more weight I need to lose.  *le sigh*

I just remembered another today. Those cards and balloons that read "It's a boy!" or "It's a girl!". I get why they exist, but they still annoy me to no end.

When I see "FTM" and it turns out they're talking about the program "Family Tree Maker" I get a tiny bit disappointed.


I also hated the puppy dogs tails song as a kid. I didn't want to be sweet! I thought puppies sounded better.


On the other hand. when I see the sign for our department of transportation, I grin... "Department of Trans" yes, please!

I don't know if this a ridiculous trigger or not, but I just can't go to the beach anymore.  I am in SoCal and there are so many hardbody, sculpted, tanned women here.  :-\

I feel like one of these ...

(https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F-9Fj-K9wWXuQ%2FTWRo1ehzlHI%2FAAAAAAAAA_E%2FXJNtwKseDMk%2Fs1600%2Fnorthern-elephant-seal.jpeg&hash=92c49583f69bdca35e8cee12b3168caf96949e19)

In fact, one of the girls triggered me in an Aussie thread last night.  I had to change my avatar and screen name.  (Actually, I like this one better!)

Quote from: Hayley on January 26, 2014, 08:00:44 PM
At work we use translucent vinyls and everyone calls them "trans" like they'll say "it's the trans" when pointing to a roll of a specific color. That for some reason annoys me to no end.
Also my wife when it's her time of the month tends to say "You're lucky you'll never have to deal with this" as she gets awful cramps and I mean I understand her reasoning behind saying it but it still stings a little hearing it. I guess that isn't a ridiculous trigger or it might be, don't know but thought I'd share.

OMG, yes... my SO does that to me too... even though she knows I'm trans, I don't think she has any idea that, yes, I want all the experience of being a woman, not just the frilly pink stuff.

When I was around eleven, a Chinese CS graduate student explained to me that "In China, you see mostly UNIX." Not being familiar with the operating system, I misinterpreted the statement. Triggered me ever since.  >:-)

There is a brand of bike that is very common here in Osaka. On the sides they say "MEGA TRANS". It always bothers me a little. How dare that personal turning device (direct Japanese translation of bicycle) out me with impunity. It's the only thing in this country that can clock me.

I work in a big box store where job takes me to a different department each day. Every now and then I have to work in the baby department.

Needless to say I've learned how to cry discreetly on the sales floor when I need to.

Aww Erin that's adorable and sad at the same time. :(

I used to work at a department store in the women's section. How awesome it was to go to work looking at and folding clothes that I longed to try on.

I work with triggers all around. I work in the ER of the local woman's hospital..... talk about Geiger inducing when the husband or woman politely tells me they would rather have a woman do that.....

Quote from: Sheala on January 27, 2014, 01:20:49 PM
I work with triggers all around. I work in the ER of the local woman's hospital..... talk about Geiger inducing when the husband or woman politely tells me they would rather have a woman do that.....

Not a ridiculous trigger at all. This would would bring me right down.

I agree, that's not ridiculous, it would make me feel awful as well. *hug*

Sometime ago in Exotic Pet Anatomy class we were discussing sexual dimorphism in birds and some parrots have none, like you have to test their DNA to know for sure and my teacher showed a picture of Andrej Pejic as a joke.
I don't think I'll ever be able to look at those birds without wishing I wasn't dimorphic ever again xP

Quote from: Sheala on January 27, 2014, 01:20:49 PM
I work with triggers all around. I work in the ER of the local woman's hospital..... talk about Geiger inducing when the husband or woman politely tells me they would rather have a woman do that.....

After my first tilt at transition I became a shiatsu massage therapist (nothing kinky, ok? :) ) and it really bummed me out no end when clients (male and female) would ring the shiatsu centre asking for a female therapist only :(

Quote from: Sheala on January 27, 2014, 01:20:49 PM
I work with triggers all around. I work in the ER of the local woman's hospital..... talk about Geiger inducing when the husband or woman politely tells me they would rather have a woman do that.....

Yeah totally not ridiculous...
also when something needs to be done by a guy (like heavy lifting) and they call you ...
and you are like why me wth...
then you realise in their eyes you are just another guy ...
:( :(  :'(

Quote from: nether on January 27, 2014, 12:42:15 PM
Aww Erin that's adorable and sad at the same time. :(

I used to work at a department store in the women's section. How awesome it was to go to work looking at and folding clothes that I longed to try on.

It was tough for me for the first few months in the women's section too when I still wasn't out at work. There was so many things that I was eyeballing for the longest time.

Quote from: Sheala on January 27, 2014, 01:20:49 PM
I work with triggers all around. I work in the ER of the local woman's hospital..... talk about Geiger inducing when the husband or woman politely tells me they would rather have a woman do that.....

My heart broke a little for you reading that. :(

Quote from: FalsePrincess on January 27, 2014, 02:04:23 PM
Yeah totally not ridiculous...
also when something needs to be done by a guy (like heavy lifting) and they call you ...
and you are like why me wth...
then you realise in their eyes you are just another guy ...
:( :(  :'(

That pissed my off to no end. I had been on HRT for over a year and a half an my upper body strength was a joke to begin with. They would ask me to get heavy cases off the shelf in the back room.

Not being able to move it without risking injury I would open the case and hand them it one unit at a time. They would often say "I guess I could have done that." My only response was "Yup".

OK so not so rediculus. It sure made ne feel silly after, knowing I have done this for a year and the other day wad the first time it got to me.

Quote from: FalsePrincess on January 27, 2014, 02:04:23 PM
also when something needs to be done by a guy (like heavy lifting) and they call you ...

I hate that!

Quote from: Ms Grace on January 27, 2014, 08:50:58 PM
I hate that!

Me too.  I also really hated it every time my wife discovered something around the house or in the car broke or failed, then came to me to fix it when she was just as capable (or not, as the case may be). 

I used to say in my most snarkastic voice, "Yes, I'll just wave my magic penis at it, and *BAM!* wielder of the almighty penis to the rescue!"  She gets it now.

Seriously, I am the last one you'd ever want near a car or a plumbing problem, alithough I did once fix a stranded '69 Camaro with a guitar string, coat hanger and cigarette butt.

Quote from: FalsePrincess on January 27, 2014, 02:04:23 PM
also when something needs to be done by a guy (like heavy lifting) and they call you ...

That's when you pretend you can't lift it. ;D

Quote from: birkin on January 27, 2014, 09:50:12 PM
That's when you pretend you can't lift it. ;D

I hadnt thought of that one lol. thats a great idea.

Quote from: birkin on January 27, 2014, 09:50:12 PM
That's when you pretend you can't lift it. ;D

There were a lot of times for me there was no pretending involved, even pre-HRT.

There is a store I pass nearly daily with a huge roadside billboard in big ass blue letters MTF.... Thanks world.

Quote from: birkin on January 27, 2014, 09:50:12 PM
That's when you pretend you can't lift it. ;D

I guess that would be too embarassing to do :/
you know,,,at the time when we were actually trying to live the role of a guy...it would be I guess...
Id try to avoid it , but sometimes wasnt possible...

now that im on e people still fricking ask me...but im like
ok I ll lift it b*tches even though its far more tiring than before hrt , just you wait some months mothef**** and lets see if you are gonna ask me again!
as far as my stength lvl goes im pretty sure its similar to an athletic girl or something ..

I had that in reverse :laugh: Over Christmas we had a gas cylinder to move, my tech was just about to ask me to help and then said, 'I'll page for a guy to come and help us'

there's this very funny teacher, but he can be quite sexist at times. he asked us to do this assessment but it wasn't compulsory, but last week he said he was going to make it compulsory  and students who already have done it don't have to do it again, which includes me. but he said others have to do it in a separate book and girls must put a blue cover to it and boys a pink cover. it was funny enough and we laughed, but then he went on saying- don't get caught without following these rules. all girls books with pink covers, boys books with blue covers, purple covers and multicoloured covers will be rejected as invalid.
so glad i did it before the rules came in.

I've always had more guy friends than girl friends and when I was younger, I was always looked at as the cool girl that likes video games and all the stuff boys like. Well, I'd still be left out of certain things because I was 'female', like sports. And when they did let me be on their teams, they'd take it easy on me and not play as hard as they usually do. (For example, no tackle football).

They automatically assumed I couldn't play sports and be tough because I was born female. I think it's kind of dumb but that was always and still is a big dysphoria trigger.

Quote from: Cindy on January 28, 2014, 02:25:01 AM
I had that in reverse :laugh: Over Christmas we had a gas cylinder to move, my tech was just about to ask me to help and then said, 'I'll page for a guy to come and help us'

:laugh: that's great. No reason for a lady to get her hands dirty!

One of my preschoolers climbed in my lap and promptly fell asleep last week. I told her mother about it, and mom said "that's amazing. She only does that with women."

The girl calls me big brother, and asked if I was married to a princess because I look like a prince so I know she views me as make. It was a compliment but I still felt a little down about it for a few minutes.

Quote from: Mr Hockey on January 28, 2014, 11:45:07 AM
They automatically assumed I couldn't play sports and be tough because I was born female. I think it's kind of dumb but that was always and still is a big dysphoria trigger.

Doesn't seem dumb to me. One of my major triggers is being excluded from girls/ladies only activities...even though I fit right in and get along great with them there's still a gendered wall that gets in the way and it's a major bummer.

I no longer get refills on soda/coffee when going out. Still have bathroom hangups :/

Quote from: Mr Hockey on January 28, 2014, 11:45:07 AM
I've always had more guy friends than girl friends and when I was younger, I was always looked at as the cool girl that likes video games and all the stuff boys like. Well, I'd still be left out of certain things because I was 'female', like sports. And when they did let me be on their teams, they'd take it easy on me and not play as hard as they usually do. (For example, no tackle football).

They automatically assumed I couldn't play sports and be tough because I was born female. I think it's kind of dumb but that was always and still is a big dysphoria trigger.

Quote from: Ms Grace on January 29, 2014, 03:46:48 AM
Doesn't seem dumb to me. One of my major triggers is being excluded from girls/ladies only activities...even though I fit right in and get along great with them there's still a gendered wall that gets in the way and it's a major bummer.

I don't think it is dumb at all. In primary school I used to play football with the boys everyday, then one day the teacher said I should play with the girls in front of them and from then on they never let me play with them again...

One that just occurred for me when I was at the cinema this week.

http://tinyurl.com/nuxgtse

First joke of the trailer, to indicate that "hey boys and girls...this will be a comedy kay?"

Of course the entire audience burst into uproarious laughter, and I just shrank into my seat and pretended I was invisible...

Still not as bad as the ending of "Filth" though...




It was such a horrible way to end that film, watching it in the cinema, I am still in the process of coming out, good film, funny, dark and brooding, get's Scottish humor perfect.

Then right at the end it takes this big "twist" like "So...this character is an alcoholic, drug abusing, corrupt cop who uses blackmail and all out violence to get his own way and satisfy his selfish, insane desires. He is hated by everybody, but they put up with him because he is good at his job...but you know what ends his career? The thing that pushes him over the edge in the eyes of his co-workers and makes him kill himself? Yup...it's discovered that he is a ->-bleeped-<-"

Wow...Such a big twist! Everybody in the audience is abhorrent! "Gasp" "Ewwww" "OMG!"

Oh great...now for the first time in the entire movie he is getting the crap beaten out of him and threatened with sexual abuse.

The line "You really F#@&$d up this time" is used, this is the thing that ends it?...none of the other stuff that should have had him fired or arrested a thousand times over?

Guy loses everything, kills himself...end of film.

What...the...actual?...

It was a nice reminder of how the general public sees trans people...walking out the theater surrounded by the audience, all buzzing around you about how it was so "messed up" and "disgusting"...

It was...it was a very, very bad day :'(

I met a friends mother a while ago. She gave me several non-PC misguided compliments, such as "you're the kind of gay I like, well groomed but not flamboyant" xD (awkward when this stuff happens...makes me think...there's so many things wrong with what you just said...but thanks?)

She also said "you're far too pretty to be a boy!" - she has no idea I'm trans so it clearly wasn't meant as a sort of "you'll never be a real man!" statement. But for a minute I was like D=

Silly triggers:  being dragged into craft stores with my wife
Worked at radio shack sold gender changers

Real trigger:  when my wife (who knows I have issues) refers to me positive in any male way.
I'm not presenting as female so I get it but sometimes I want to cry

QuoteI just remembered another today. Those cards and balloons that read "It's a boy!" or "It's a girl!". I get why they exist, but they still annoy me to no end.

I agree! The cards should read "Its a baby!" Full. Stop. Why does it matter what friggin' sex it is, and why does it need to be colour coded?!

I hate all the colour-coding crap of gender. Especially when it comes to kids.

Kids seem to be often more curious, concerned or weirded-out by gender non-conformists and transexuals than adults are. Because kids are exposed to massive amounts of gender re-inforcing bullsh*t from when they were born. Boys have blue painted rooms, girls have pink rooms, boys get these toys, girls get these. It rots their brains and turns them into un-thinking conforming gender robots, already slaves to the function of their un-developed and currently useless genitals. Society hates the idea of sexualised kids, but has no problem with instilling harmful and confining messages, ultimately sexual in nature, from the second they leave the womb. Nice. 

"Now Wendy, you're only 1 year old, and we'd hate for you to have sex before you are old enough, but we're still going to start making you feel the pressure of being female and what'll be expected of you, from now". Remember kids, you're never too young to be packaged and boxed as a sexual object defined by your gender! ;)

Quote from: "I'm Stella Stanhope, and that's why I drink". on February 01, 2014, 07:59:03 PM
I agree! The cards should read "Its a baby!" Full. Stop. Why does it matter what friggin' sex it is, and why does it need to be colour coded?!

I saw a card recently that read "It's a boy and a girl!"

It was intended for baby twins, but that isn't how I interpreted it.

Who else is bothered by the fact that a baby of unknown gender is referred to as. "It"?  I find that to be dehumanizing regardless of age.

Quote from: ErinM on February 02, 2014, 12:10:52 PM
Who else is bothered by the fact that a baby of unknown gender is referred to as. "It"?  I find that to be dehumanizing regardless of age.

I only find it offensive when the gender is known (but I know where you're coming from)...  ;)

I feel ridiculously vain but every time I look in a mirror and see my thinning hair I get very upset

Quote from: ErinM on February 02, 2014, 12:10:52 PM
Who else is bothered by the fact that a baby of unknown gender is referred to as. "It"?  I find that to be dehumanizing regardless of age.

It doesn't strike me as dehumanizing, perhaps because I speak German, and the word for "child" or "infant" is neuter, so it's natural to use the neuter pronoun for it.  (For that matter, so is the word for girl, so traditionally, if you were telling a story about "ein Maedchen", you'd consistently use neuter pronouns for her -- Grimm's fairy tales do this.)  Cf. Mark Twain's essay "The Awful German Language."

FWIW, I have rarely heard this in the USA.  The few times I have, it's been from people from parts of the USA that I think had a large German immigrant population.

Older Brit literature sometimes refers to children as "it": "The pudding was served, and each child had its share." So it doesn't bother me at all. But boy howdy, I did not like being referred to as "it" myself. It happened only a few times, but that was enough for me.

I just mentioned this in another thread. When my therapist talks about trans kids with supportive parents or the college-age trans folks he is writing surgery letters for, I get very upset. He was nattering on and on (or so it seemed to me) about the college cohort the other day, and I couldn't even look at him or say anything. Seems like a ridiculous trigger, but it gets me every time. I really wanted to let him have it, but I didn't.

Quote from: RobinTheAmazon on February 02, 2014, 05:19:54 PM
I feel ridiculously vain but every time I look in a mirror and see my thinning hair I get very upset

You & me both, sister. That's one of the reasons I keep kicking myself for not starting HRT sooner: at this point in my life, what's gone is gone, unless I get hairline restoration, and that seems, like you said, ridiculously vain.

I hate it when someone accidentally misgenders a cisgender person in a sentence and then quickly corrects themselves without question and move on. Like if they're talking fast and call their dad "she" lol. But if they do it to a trans person, they either awkwardly correct themselves or don't bother and say something like "oh well mistakes happen and I can't correct them every time because it's weird."

Quote from: Arcee on February 02, 2014, 10:39:10 PM
You & me both, sister. That's one of the reasons I keep kicking myself for not starting HRT sooner: at this point in my life, what's gone is gone, unless I get hairline restoration, and that seems, like you said, ridiculously vain.

Quote from: RobinTheAmazon on February 02, 2014, 05:19:54 PM
I feel ridiculously vain but every time I look in a mirror and see my thinning hair I get very upset

Can we get T-Shirts for the club? Because I am a full time member :(

One I have found recently...pregnant women, just being around them makes me a bit sad that I can never have that.

When people bring up biological sex in reference to trans people and/or when biological sex is seen as absolutely binary. I know I'm a freak. I don't like being reminded of it.
Not to mention, I don't understand why brains are not considered biological or why whoever decided which organs determine sex decided to leave out brains. I know I'm biased what with being a brain fanboy, but aren't brains our most important organs? We (both cis and trans people) will die if we lose our brains. We won't die if we lose our reproductive organs which, incidentally, happens to cis people, but no one claims it makes them the opposite sex. Why is that? How, exactly, does this biological sex thing work?

I discovered a weird trigger this week.  I stumbled upon a fashion blog where this woman posts different outfits that she wears to work, and I'd kill to dress like her.  I've got a thing for pencil skirts right now.  A serious thing!   

And suddenly the dysphoria kicked in and lasted the better part of a day.  I want to wear pencil skirts and pretty shoes dammit!

Quote from: Edge on February 03, 2014, 09:43:37 PM
I don't understand why brains are not considered biological or why whoever decided which organs determine sex decided to leave out brains. I know I'm biased what with being a brain fanboy, but aren't brains our most important organs? We (both cis and trans people) will die if we lose our brains. We won't die if we lose our reproductive organs which, incidentally, happens to cis people, but no one claims it makes them the opposite sex. Why is that? How, exactly, does this biological sex thing work?

This has been getting to me ALLOT recently >.>

Allot of the evidence around my case is more and more beginning to point to a case of inter-sexuality rather than a psychological condition.

(I had a twin that miss carried, perpetual migraines through puberty, I don't look like any of the men in my family, like looking at a family photo I stick out like a sore thumb, and countless other indicators)

This leads most of the doctors to believe that it will most likely be a biological issue with me, that I was actually female in the womb, but when my twin miss carried, my mother's body kept giving out the male hormones, hence female brain male body...yet I am still being forced to sit through hours and hours of psychological examination, therapy and monitoring "just in case".

Why is the default assumption that we are crazy -.-'...I mean I AM crazy, but that has nothing to do with the dysphoria! That's too much videogames!

Being called "Sir" at work.
I still have to use my male name until I get a name change.
Oh but growing up I was always mistaken for a girl.  Made me happy. 

Or, how about Viagra commercials?

Or my oldest one.
Riding a bike.  Those little "things" always got in the way.

Sir has become a touchy word for me. Co-workers still misgender me regularly and I had a someone call me sir last week. :(

I still flinch even when I hear cis males called sir.

Quote from: emilyking on February 04, 2014, 03:22:55 AM
Riding a bike.  Those little "things" always got in the way.

Oh, I know, right?!? I love cycling, but since I started tucking a year or so ago, it's either incredibly uncomfortable to ride or, if I don't tuck, extremely triggering to have it so visible in the spandex.

The "Compile Trans List" function of my workplace database.

For some reason, my "Trans" backpack does not cause me any problems. Perhaps it's because I picked it out intentionally and consider it a private joke.

Quote from: ErinM on February 04, 2014, 04:30:52 PM
Sir has become a touchy word for me. Co-workers still misgender me regularly and I had a someone call me sir last week. :(

I still flinch even when I hear cis males called sir.

I'm not full time or fully out at work, and one of my female colleagues is a big user of "sir" - it's just her jokey affectation, unlike the United States we don't use "sir" all that much in Australia, she's British though and it's just her way. She uses it with the other men and I tolerate it as she doesn't know any better. But the other day as she was leaving she said to the room "good night, ladies!" This was great, but two seconds later she added, as a "correction" "and gentleman"... for some reason I find being called a gentleman quite insulting. I chirped back "who are you calling a gentleman?" - it was good for a few laughs even if they get didn't get the context and no doubt interpreted it completely differently.

A male colleague/friend would refer to me as "The Man" when I'd drop around to his desk. Again, I tolerated it because he didn't know, but I told him a few weeks back, he was very supportive and I notice he stopped calling me that. Calls me Colonel instead (from a very old in-joke). Yes, "colonel"has some definite male connotations (for some reason I think of walrus moustached, barrel chested machismo) but women can be colonels too, so I'm cool with that!

Ooh! I have a stupid one, and it took me some time to remember it. Circa 2000, there was a commercial on TV for... belly t-shirts? It featured singing belly buttons. To this day, I have no idea why those singing belly buttons bummed me out in a gender way, but they always did.

Stockings in Japan. I see them everyday on girls and women of all ages and they are adorable. They give me all the man squees and I can't wear them. Sure I have adorable underpants but I want some of those stockings. Not enough to go back to being female, but damn, man, why can't guys wear adorable stockings??

I'm taking a chemistry class right now. The textbook always indicates if a problem happens under conditions of "standard temperature and pressure"- abbreviated (you guessed it) "STP." So all of my homework assignments have "STP" written everywhere. And it's even worse in class... I can't help but feel uncomfortable each time the teacher loudly says "STP" or scrawls it on the board.  :-\

Quote from: Arch on February 08, 2014, 03:17:02 AM
For some reason, my "Trans" backpack does not cause me any problems. Perhaps it's because I picked it out intentionally and consider it a private joke.

I just remembered that the last time I saw someone ELSE with the same backpack, I had a jolt of dysphoria. I've had a similar reaction on other occasions.

How ridiculous is that?

Quote from: Arch on February 09, 2014, 04:04:17 PM
I just remembered that the last time I saw someone ELSE with the same backpack, I had a jolt of dysphoria. I've had a similar reaction on other occasions.

How ridiculous is that?

Nah, it makes sense. Sometimes I just hate things that remind me of something I'd prefer to forget (especially when they turn up unexpectedly - that's the worst), even if they're innocent.

So many...umm

When I was a teenager, I came out of the shower to go to my room while wearing a tower around my waist, and my mother looked me up and down and said in a matter of fact way, that I had a woman's body.
In hindsight, she was absolutely right !

I saw a license plate that said BWN I GRL ... I could have sworn the I was a T when I looked at it. Gave it an entirely different meaning to me.

I worked for an animal shelter managing their computer network. We were migrating the database we used to manage animals. One thing was that neutering surgery was listed as orchiectomy under the procedures.

I was pre-HRT at the time and wasn't planing on a full transition. Needless to say each time I saw that I wished I could have booked myself in.

Throughout the process that dragged out for months I used the term transition on almost a daily biases when referring to the mice. The bright side of that was as that transition was ending, I started my own. :)

The grade twelve biology curriculum. Specifically, the part on reproduction.

Quote from: Edge on February 09, 2014, 05:10:57 PM
The grade twelve biology curriculum. Specifically, the part on reproduction.

God, that section always made me giggle!

Organic chemistry...specifically cis bonds and trans bonds between carbon atoms. And of course the trans ones (think trans fats) tend to be the problematic ones.

Also in genetics, when we went in depth into 'what makes an organism male or female.' Turns out from the genetics standpoint it was the size of the gametes  produced, not chromosomes. Basically, big gametes = female. I would sit in class and think, 'if only it was so simple.'