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 - one of our most prominent trans gender performers...and guess what? She being played by a cis gender woman!! Now apparently Carlotta herself is a producer on this, so her choice presumably...but why?

At least when Elementary featured a trans* character 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 ...



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.