I am curious, I sense a possible culture shift but I am not sure about it.
We used to build walls, separate out, in this section. Then came the big rift, it all came down due to invalidation, trying to impose a standard trans narrative on nonbinaries. Innocent enough but explosive in the end.
But what I am thinking I see is that its not so antagonistic any more. And I am wondering if thats true, or something I dreamed of that I am projecting, or what?
I always have worried that I am too strongly sh'e for the section, that it would drive the nonbinaries away. Even though I am nonbinary.
Then I get worried that I am too nonbinary to post in the transsexual sections, and that I will get eaten alive over there, or triggered.
Since that time, I became centered personally in who I am. So now I am triggerproof. Back then, I was not. And that would true of any nonbinary identity being led into a ts narrative of full social transition and full tilt girl or boy. Personally that would have killed me. Was bad enough as it was, I fought hard for my sanity until I learned and accepted that not everyone, whether TS or NB, is inevitably going to fully socially transition, or even physically transition.
We had a lot of folk that had gone full out, lost big time, and recentered as nonbinary. Some folks did this and lost their lives. You don't here about it, they dissapear. Others, did the recenter and came back mad as heck.
But I see a shift, like its finally ok to be ts and nonbinary and vocal about it, like people are understanding that there is no one size fits all solution. Like when SOC 7 launched and we got our rights to what we needed without having to pretend we were full out binary trans, maybe it relaxed a little.
Fear drove all of this, ya know. Fear, then anger. And lack of understanding of who people are, trying to take our own paradyne or understanding and saying to others they must go down the same path.
Truth is there are a million paths in the forest leading to your truth.
Did you find your path?
Has this place changed? In fact now, not just in lip service or politically correct terms? I think it may have.
I think the rift between nonbinary and binary trans may actually be healing here. It is in real live, as we fight to pee, as we keep being killed, we are realizing these artificial walls must come down. Meanwhile, if cultures are unsafe, there are more resources out there to be helped, you tube, stuff not competing with Susans, there is just more information out there now as the knowledge explodes across the digital world we live in.
I saw Cindy crush a divisive thread in here that was hurtful to nonbinary. She shut it right down, wouldn't tolerate it. I could have been drawn into it, but instead, it clearly was not being tolerated.
Thank you for that darling. If I may be so bold.
Blessings
Satin Joy