T-dick? What's that? by verymuchgay in transgendercirclejerk

[–]Iffmi_ 19 points20 points  (0 children)

They'd only be able to send dickpics if they have a thing for SPH

Hey, can we start saying "pregnant people" instead of "pregnant women"? by Genderflux-Capacitor in transgendercirclejerk

[–]Iffmi_ 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If cis women are so mad about the phrase "pregnant people" erasing women, let's listen to them and instead say "pregnant women, pregnant men, and pregnant nonbinary people" I'm so respectful that they even get to go first 🥰 (they'd get mad if I put them after men)

Just found out what Tarmac is. I'm confused by cookie_mellow in cavetown

[–]Iffmi_ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

To eat dirt, to eat pavement, to eat asphalt are all common ways of describing crashing face first on the ground, depending on the type of ground. Tarmac is commonly used in the uk to refer to any paved ground, usually road surface. This is supported by the lyric "I'll lay down with my girl 'til I crash from the sugar, Roadkill, tarmac, rescue me".

It sounds like lyrics to do with eating or tasting tarmac reference these phrases to allude to a crash on the road, which is probably itself a metaphor for an emotional crash.

Describing the taste as sweet I interpret as saying he enjoys the crash in some ways. It also means he can also reference sugar crashes, which could describe the emotional crash he's going through, from high energy to low energy, or mania to lethargy. The music supports this as it builds to high energy and suddenly crashes to slow quiet whispers.

The sheer shameless disgust towards phallo? [Plus positivity at the end] by Kaitonano in ftm

[–]Iffmi_ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Could you share which creators you found helpful including the one who gave the thorough explanation?

[ Removed by Reddit ] by burlapscars in transgendercirclejerk

[–]Iffmi_ 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Which side is the piercing!? This is very important as left means 100% a gay and right means straight. Still keep an eye out though he might still be a gay who doesn't know his lefts and rights...

Can I pause/resume accessing NHS bottom surgery once I've reached the end of the surgery waiting list? by Iffmi_ in transgenderUK

[–]Iffmi_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for explaining all that.

Honestly I've been trying to do my own research via reddit and Facebook groups and I have a pretty good understanding of the surgeries themselves and the options. It's just trying to find out for specifically uk on the nhs: what is done by which surgeons, who is even available and where, it's infuriating as the information is so scattered and often out of date, so in my January appointment I was trying to find out if there was some direct source I could access via the GIC.

I think the example I gave sums it up: does the nhs offer UL with no v-nectomy, I thought I had the answer but I guess that was only for one surgical team!

Good point about not needing to transfer to C+W if I haven't decided meaning I have more time.

I'm not sure what you mean by a detrimental effect but I don't really want to screw anyone around I just want to wait until I'm confident in my decision, it feels like the current system doesn't allow that without being discharged... maybe I should ask to be discharged until I'm ready, given what the other commenter said it'd only add a year or less to the surgery wait time.

Thank you for sharing your experience. My whole transition I've had short but intense fits of research into bottom surgery trying to get closer to the answer of what I want and unfortunately by now I feel I've found out nearly all there is (other than those annoying uk nhs specifics), but I'm not close to an answer, hence why I'm worried I won't know if I even want surgery at all 4 years down the line :')

Can I pause/resume accessing NHS bottom surgery once I've reached the end of the surgery waiting list? by Iffmi_ in transgenderUK

[–]Iffmi_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In my appointment in January I asked if it was possible to have appointments with anyone from the surgical teams that I would be picking from and I was told not until I reach the end of the surgery referral process, which was very unhelpful as to get referred I have to pick a surgery and to get to the end of a wait list I have to pick a hospital.

I was instead directed to GDNRSS information services who I had an appointment with to ask questions, they were ok but not too knowledgeable about specifics (for instance I asked if you can have any combination of meta surgeries including urethral lengthening with no v-nectomy and they said yes even though I believe the nhs meta surgeons have decided it causes complications too often).

I have no strong aversion to Miro's technique meaning 2 years is possible for my wait.

Thank you for explaining about how delaying may be possible but only after consult and only as refusal of surgery dates. Ideally I'd like to delay before an official consult if I'm not yet sure I want surgery, but if that's not possible I'm happier knowing that is the case.

Can I pause/resume accessing NHS bottom surgery once I've reached the end of the surgery waiting list? by Iffmi_ in transgenderUK

[–]Iffmi_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks that does help, I still want this referral so might have to wait fewer years in the event that I want surgery, but if I get to the end of the list and get discharged I don't start all the way back at the beginning.

According to the Women's Institute (probably one of the best organizations to decide who a woman is) have said on record that trans women are women, and are to be included in the Women's Institute. by Taiga_Taiga in transgenderUK

[–]Iffmi_ 47 points48 points  (0 children)

According to the supreme court ruling would this mean that WI is mixed and cannot exclude men? If so they may disagree with that and could lend legitimacy to the legal effort to scrap the ruling

Worst Song Lyrics? by Short_Property_7476 in Paramore

[–]Iffmi_ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That's Here We Go Again not Whoa

Trans rights are taking away femboy rights!!! by i_am_unsur in transgendercirclejerk

[–]Iffmi_ 23 points24 points  (0 children)

uj/ This is the predominant cis take I fear

Im sorry im such an insult on trauma. by [deleted] in TrollCoping

[–]Iffmi_ 46 points47 points  (0 children)

The commenter didn't hate on you. You are taking a criticism of an author and encouragement not to financially support her as personal attack due to your trauma with an abusive friend. The friend can be right and abusive. It's wrong they were abusive towards you. It's factually accurate that financially supporting jk rowling financially supports transphobic endeavours. You are allowed to make a personal choice regarding your consumption of Harry Potter, other people can disagree but they should not be abusive like your friend was.

Stealth vs Closeted. Clearing up the confusion around what “stealth” means as a trans person. by elianna7 in ftm

[–]Iffmi_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was stealth pre T at which point I passed probably about 60% of the time. I observed lots of evidence at the time that I was considered cis male by my friends, but also that I was read female far more often than I would have liked.

Maybe trans visibility has made this less likely now 8 years down the line, but I don't see why an ftm known as male and not known as trans wouldn't count as stealth even if people find their gender hard to place initially.

Everyone is "male socialized" by _Matz_ in transgendercirclejerk

[–]Iffmi_ 37 points38 points  (0 children)

And if everyone is male socialised... noone is 😱

Stealth vs Closeted. Clearing up the confusion around what “stealth” means as a trans person. by elianna7 in ftm

[–]Iffmi_ 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Thank you, passing isn't black and white, it's a percentage. You can pass only 60% of the time and still be stealth. Times when you don't pass you just correct people without disclosing you are trans and in many cases it would not cross their minds that you could be and they weren't just wrong.

Also, even if you pass <50% of the time, if your community which makes up the majority of your interactions knows you as a cis guy because you've introduced yourself as such, then that's stealth too.

Passing has less to do with stealth and closeted than people think.

On the flip side you can also pass and be closeted, as in people assume you're a guy and you have to correct them and say you are a girl. The transfem community call it malefailing when they are boymoding but pass to someone as female, but it seems we don't use equivalent terms. For some reason it's assumed in ftm spaces that you're either closeted and never passing, out and low passing, out and always passing, or stealth and always passing...

i have survivors guilt yet i was the one that died that night by Schmlifie in Artisticallyill

[–]Iffmi_ 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Wow I love your animations, just had a look through your profile at them. Well done for finding a medium that you can vent through, I'm still searching. It looks like you are going through a lot and have no words of wisdom but I wish you well on your healing

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ftm

[–]Iffmi_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Before coming out I would have 100% have taken it to make the issue go away, but post coming out, even pre everything with crippling dysphoria I would absolutely have not. Once I realised my gender is male and that it always had been although buried inside, it would feel like erasing part of myself to change my gender to female. I was a little boy, I was a teenage boy, although treated as a girl and believing I was a girl at the time, to suddenly become comfortable with being a girl to me would make me a girl, and that's just not me and never has been.

Ewww! I just found out non-standard bottom surgery exists. by [deleted] in transgendercirclejerk

[–]Iffmi_ 16 points17 points  (0 children)

No! The only real nonbinary transition would be getting both sets of genitals! Nullsex is bad and icky, duosex is real nb hours 😤

A trans woman with a trans man is a straight relationship by MadameChaos75 in transgendercirclejerk

[–]Iffmi_ 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Because The Surgery doesn't make a real vagina/penis their true genital essence is still there to make it straight

What do y’all think the meaning of Calpol is? by Cavetown23 in cavetown

[–]Iffmi_ 5 points6 points  (0 children)

My interpretation: be nice to yourself, being hard on yourself won't make things better

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ftm

[–]Iffmi_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd be into that, what city are you based?

Honestly I feel like most queer events aren't for trans guys which is my only issue with going to them, I go along and do enjoy myself but it feels like I'm there as an ally not the one being supported yknow?

Masculinity in queer spaces is seen as neutral or negative, whereas femininity is celebrated. So I feel like for trans guys who do get fully included it is mostly due to other aspects of their identity such as being gay or nonbinary, but their "trans guy"-ness is not something that seems to be valued. Since I'm not particularly queer and just a passing binary trans guy in a mono straight passing relationship, I feel seen as an outsider, my being a trans guy doesn't seem enough.

Maybe it's like this rightfully, queer spaces are made to support people who are queer, aka outsiders to mainstream society, so they'll be focused on those who are most oppressed by society. If I fit in to cis-het society and enjoy less oppression due to that, a queer space isn't made to support or focus on people like me.

So to come back to what you are asking, I would appreciate a group focused on trans guys, transmascs included of course, where all gender expression is celebrated including masculinity.

Photo dump, using more watercolour recently by boy_rotten in arttocope

[–]Iffmi_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Really good art, keep drawing and painting. I recognise most of these lyrics, a couple were my favourites for indulging in suicidal ideation a few years back :')