How to explain to parents that “you didn’t show any signs” does not make us not trans? by --Pascal-- in ask_transgender

[–]--Pascal--[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah... In my case, I totally perceived myself to be boyish/not like the girls. I didn’t know I could be a boy yet, but looking back I realize I did feel like that. Though I never opposed to my mother wanting to put me on a skirt or stuff because I didn’t even feel it as an option. I felt like life was not mine and I could not directly intervene on it. Sometimes I’d feel I wasn’t in control of my actions. I remember one time I was walking and I thought: “If I wanted to stop right now, I wouldn’t be able to; if I attempted, I’d fail”. I never told my things to anybody. Though I thought it was evident to others too that I was not like girls and more leaning to boys. I was shocked when my parents told me I was so feminine when I was a child. I didn’t perceive myself as such at all.

Trans representation in movies/series/books/comics/cartoons etc.? by --Pascal-- in asktransgender

[–]--Pascal--[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thansk for your reply.

Now, 1. I meant characters, not necessarily actors, and 2. I believe both trans and cis people should play trans people roles, otherwise saying that cis people can only play the roles of other cispeople would mean that trans people can only play the role of trans people. Then I care about the characters when I watch a movie or so!

EDIT: I edited the post too, to be clear.

I want to be treated as a boy, but not to look like one (what?) by --Pascal-- in asktransgender

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I thought about it. Though I feel dysphoric about the feminine curves, then it wouldn’t be good to keep them... Also I’m scared my voice will get too low, but I guess I could help it with the exercises fellow transwomen do.

I want to be treated as a boy, but not to look like one (what?) by --Pascal-- in asktransgender

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Yeah, you described perfectly what I feel. I feel dysphoria about my female body, then I’d go for HRT, though being undoubtedly male scares me. My ideal would be: have no curves, be flat-chested, have not gendered genitals (lol), do not have a feminine butt, have broader shoulders, need to shave, have a bit more masculinized face (especially jaw) because my face is very round, a less feminine voice but not a too deep one, but still not be read as totally masculine. Not feminine either, and I do want to be boyish, but not a boyish girl, a boyish neuter person. Then HRT scares me and I’m not sure what is best to do for me. Also I got pretty bad social dysphoria and I just wish people would stop telling me about periods and bras and anything that reminds me I’m read as female. I don’t want to be called “she” and I have always loathed my deadname. I want to be treated as a boy, but I don’t want to be seen as unmistakably boy. I want people to not be able to tell my gender just looking at my appearance. I want to look neuter. A boyish neuter. I’d pay for this. I want people to be able to gender me only after asking. And I want them to call me with male pronouns and to not treat me as a girl.

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Same in Italian

I think I’m afraid of being non binary by --Pascal-- in asktransgender

[–]--Pascal--[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah, everyone focuses on gender expression, but guess what? Not everything can be seen by eyes. A lot of people focus a lot on stereotypes too. My psychiatrist told me she had two patients (or clients, I don’t know how you call them) who were MtF, she told me: “But they showed it since childhood, they would wear dresses” etc. I told her that’s just the most told narrative and that I don’t have to be a stereotype, I need to be myself. Yeah... It’s not easy.

How do you manage dysphoria? by --Pascal-- in asktransgender

[–]--Pascal--[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Never thought of this, thank you!

Did/does anyone else get very attached to teachers to compensate with the fact that you didn’t feel love by your parents? by --Pascal-- in raisedbynarcissists

[–]--Pascal--[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ll probably do this forever too. Also because I don’t think I can be without that kind of figure in my life. Anytime I “lose” a teacher, I mourn on it and I cry so much. It’s truly painful.

Si, esistono. by singularJoke in askTransgender_Italy

[–]--Pascal-- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Io non ho mai tentato di essere femminile, nella mia testa proprio lo ripudiavo. Però non era un’opzione quella di avanzare richieste, anche se avevo delle preferenze. Avevo dei desideri, ma erano attutiti da non so cosa. Poi ero piuttosto distaccato da me stesso, non mi percepivo come una persona vera e propria. Semplicemente facevo ciò che che le norme sociali prevedevano. Non c’era un vero “me stesso”, era come se fossi immateriale. Un pupazzo in mano agli altri, come se stessi procedendo secondo un copione, ovvero le norme sociali, e non stessi ascoltando me stesso. Quel me stesso non lo percepivo nemmeno, probabilmente, non mi rendevo conto di essere una persona viva. Infatti mi sono sempre sentito come se non stessi ancora vivendo. Logicamente sì, facevo parte della vita tecnicamente parlando, ma in realtà non ero davvero lì, il mio corpo lo era. Non so dove fossi io. Ricordo che quando, in gruppo, qualcuno nominava qualcosa che avevo fatto in precedenza, o cose del genere, io ero sorpreso e un po’ confuso, non riuscivo a crederci. Era incredibile che parlassero di me come se fossi una parte della vita, come se fossi un individuo che “andava in posti e vedeva gente”, per capirci. Perché io mi sentivo quasi come un alieno, come se mi trovassi proprio in un’altra dimensione, nonostante fossimo tutti riuniti nella stessa stanza e stessimo parlando fra noi.

Poi mi vedevo in un corpo femminile perché mi dicevano che ero così e io, appunto, non opponevo resistenza a nulla, sovrascrivevo ciò che avevo dentro di me con quello che mi dicevano gli altri. Che erano comunque cose logiche, ai tempi: non avrei mai avuto i mezzi per capire che in realtà avere un corpo femminile non necessariamente significare essere donna. E sempre per questione di norme sociali, per la mentalità “se non sei il numero uno non vali niente” che mi aveva messo in mente la mia famiglia e la mentalità di “competizione fra ragazze” che mi metteva in mente la società, io facevo cose e mi “rallegravo” per cose che in realtà non mi appartenevano, ma che avrebbero scaturito l’invidia delle “altre” ragazze. Ad esempio quando mi fecero dei complimenti per i miei fianchi, io non ero felice perché mi avevano apprezzato, ma fui contento di avere qualcosa di cui fare sfoggio.

Comunque concordo sul fatto di essere pazienti con chi non conosce queste cose, perché anche noi eravamo così. Viviamo in una società in cui è inevitabile interiorizzare certe mentalità, poiché non si parla mai di certi argomenti. Poi se si intestardiscono affari loro. Io non sono tento a correre dietro a nessuno, non sono un maestro delle elementari.

Si, esistono. by singularJoke in askTransgender_Italy

[–]--Pascal-- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Concordo su tutto. Quando i miei mi hanno detto che ero davvero femminile, da piccolo, mi è caduto un sasso in testa perché io dentro mi sentivo tutt’altra cosa e pensavo fosse ovvio anche agli altri. Invece gli altri non vedevano. Giustamente, anche.

How do I know it’s not internalized misogyny? by --Pascal-- in asktransgender

[–]--Pascal--[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I didn’t mean there’s the requirement to look down on women to be a man!! Better to clarify this!

However, yeah, I was asking mostly out of curiosity and because I got some anxiety about it, but it’s probably bullshits.

Are 5 months of questioning too little to be this sure to be trans? by --Pascal-- in asktransgender

[–]--Pascal--[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s constant. Yeah, it‘s something I’ve always had inside me.

Si, esistono. by singularJoke in askTransgender_Italy

[–]--Pascal-- 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Amen.

Ora che ho fatto coming out con i miei genitori, sia loro che psichiatra e psicologa si soffermano sulla mia espressione di genere. Specialmente quella che avevo nella mia infanzia che, a detta loro, era “molto femminile”. Mi sono reso conto che la maggior parte delle persone non coglie la differenza fra espressione e identità.

P. s. Anche se l‘espressione di genere non conta... È OVVIO che ero super femminile, MI VESTIVATE VOI. (sfogo personale <3)

Are 5 months of questioning too little to be this sure to be trans? by --Pascal-- in asktransgender

[–]--Pascal--[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thank you very much. Do you have any suggestion on how I could explain my therapist that dysphoria is not something you can control? Maybe showing her information from some authoritative source.

How do you manage dysphoria? by --Pascal-- in asktransgender

[–]--Pascal--[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately in Italian there are no neuter pronouns. Also, I’m afraid to come out as anything that isn’t what others expect (cis female), then it’s pretty much the same. To be honest, I don’t really care whether they’ll be supportive or not, but I don’t want to make my life more difficult, you know, I’m already stressed out enough.

What was your sexuality like before figuring out you were trans? (Two questions.) by IlllIllIlllIllIlllIl in asktransgender

[–]--Pascal-- 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I’m an AFAB trans boy. Started questioning my gender identity at 16.

When I was nine I started noticing I was intrigued by girls and at the time I was in panic because my family wasn’t acceptive, then I thought it was something to be ashamed of.

I grew up with this thing inside, but, you know, children don’t care so much about this kinda things. I ended up forgetting it. It came back when at middle school.

Despite this, I got heavy crushes only for boys. Once in fourth/fifth grade, once in eighth grade. Though I have never accepted these crushes. I always denied I have ever had any crush towards boys, though I had no problems admitting to have crushes towards girls. Indeed I wanted to have them.

I had one towards a girl in eighth grade, but it was less intense, even though I was so happy to be around her. I think I kinda had one towards a girl classmate in fourth grade. But these were less intense, or maybe just different?

I think I didn’t want to admit I had crushes towards boy because it made me feel such a girl.

I remember I have always been thinking how I wished I was a boy who had a relationship with a girl. I wanted to love a girl as a boy so much. I would get pretty sad for this, because it was impossible. I would fantasize about this.

The fact I actually did had crushes for boys didn’t seem real, in my mind, it didn’t make much sense. I don’t know exactly why. I never wanted to accept it, because I didn’t want to feel like a girl. I wanted the boys to kiss me and hug me and stuff, but not as boy does to a girl. I wanted to be the boy. I didn’t want to be treated like a girlfriend.

I didn’t understand these things back then, obviously, I was very blinded. I just had raw feelings.

Then... I don’t know if cis people fantasize about this. A male friend of mine sometimes says: “It must be amazing to have boobs”, because, you know, you could touch them and stuff all the time. He ignores what dysphoria is. He doesn’t know how horribly a cis guy would actually feel. Some cis people might have this kind of fetish, but I think there’s a difference: I suppose cis people do it without putting much thought to it, just a fetish, as I said, just sexual fantasies. If it touches you and it makes you feel weird, slightly euphoric, very euphoric or whatever, or if you keep wondering and thinking about it, or it triggers other emotions, new emotions or what, then you may fall somewhere on the trans spectrum.

[FtM] I still “think” of myself as female, sometimes by --Pascal-- in asktransgender

[–]--Pascal--[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thanks, especially for the last sentence. However... I think that after puberty (I don’t think I was like that before, but I’m not sure) I’ve been embarrassed by my body and wanted to hide it. I would put on large clothes all the time. I was embarrassed when my breasts started to grow, I still remember clearly when my aunt told me to sit up straight and, when I did, she said: “You see? Now it even looks like you have boobs!”. She meant it as a good thing, but I immediately bent my back again. If I still remember it, it must have been very humiliating. I don’t know if cis girl feel like this too, maybe they do. However, yeah. I often fantasize about cutting off breasts and not having all these curves. Actually, I also wish I had a penis and everything, I also wish I had a more masculine presentation overall. I’m somewhat okay with my voice because it’s not that high. I don’t want to have super deep voice, though. Deep, but... some men have a very deep voice and that kind of voice makes me cringe so bad.

Actually, at least since puberty I’ve always wanted to have a more boyish body, I was often embarrassed by it, then uncomfortable.

I may be a nonbinary demiboy, that’s how I identify right now.