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« Reply #751 on: May 30, 2023, 12:13:47 pm »

Went and visited some members of my mother's family alone (i.e. without my parents) for the first time. I've only been out to my lesbian cousin, and this time I came out to her mother, my aunt.

It went well, she was kind to me ... ... ... she packed my lunch for the train in her deceased son's old lunchbox.
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« Reply #752 on: May 30, 2023, 04:00:17 pm »

This article seems fitting between Memorial Day and Pride Month: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/05/26/gay-transgender-veterans-compensation/
...to bad it's in the UK.
I was initially thinking it'd be some sort of thing of veterans being denied pensions due to being LGBT or something, instead it's about literal torture being done on people because they were gay or trans, or even as much as suspected of it.

Six figures isn't enough for that sort of thing.
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« Reply #753 on: May 30, 2023, 04:18:37 pm »

Oh, shit.  I didn't click the link, thanks for summarizing it.  :(

@Vector It's so interesting what little gestures can mean the world.  I'm so glad that went well.  I'm planning to come out to my dad's sister sometime during June...  She's always been pretty nice to me, and in general, but we're not close.  I'd like for her to know.

I saw a cute bumper sticker today: "I've got my TWO moms wrapped around my little *pawprint*".  With a little rainbow loop.

I don't get lesbians but they're neat!  My cousin has two moms too.  He asked me my pronouns in front of my dad once, heh, and dad made jokes but we literally ignored him until he moved on.  The dynamic is so different when there's even one ally around.
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« Reply #754 on: June 01, 2023, 12:28:55 am »

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« Reply #755 on: June 01, 2023, 02:42:42 am »

Well, I came out to my mom, it went better then I expected, and I didn't expect anything bad in the first place  :D.

In a partly related news, I am not sure I am trans, more accurately, I am not sure what being trans would mean for me, or what gender is.
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« Reply #756 on: June 01, 2023, 05:43:19 am »

Gender is [insert thing], pretty much.
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« Reply #757 on: June 01, 2023, 06:36:46 am »

Gender is [insert thing], pretty much.
Surely that's actually Sexuality?  ;D
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« Reply #758 on: June 01, 2023, 08:42:12 am »

Or just plain sex?  ??? :o
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« Reply #759 on: June 01, 2023, 10:35:24 am »

my girlfriend has described me as a 'femme boy toy' while talking with a friend about said friend's femme boy toy and said friend says that I give off they/them energy

(it seems to be a winning strategy for me)

Happy pride, y'all. Be you, stay you.
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« Reply #761 on: June 02, 2023, 07:26:12 pm »

I want to keep up to date with trans stuff, I really do because it matters, especially now I'm part of the group.

Unfortunately every time it's just people pissing and shitting themselves over the fact that someone is different. It's confusing to them, so rather than learn they throw a tantrum and advocate for, at best, detransitioning or, at worst, straight up murdering us (So ranging from "forcible removal of a group" style genocide to "Systemic extermination" style genocide) while screaming that we're all paedophiles (Meanwhile religious institutions and right-wing groups tend to have issues dealing with kiddy diddlers).

It's fucking exhausting. It also makes me wonder when it's going to turn into someone going violent in retaliation. I wonder that for a lot of things really, see a group being demonised and verbally/physically attacked, and it seems weird there's not actually *more* retaliatory violence. Maybe it speaks well for humanity's ability to cooperate and search for peaceful solutions.
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« Reply #762 on: June 02, 2023, 08:29:00 pm »

I found this article to be informative. I think it mentions a lot of stuff covered in this thread. Let me know what CNN got wrong.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/06/01/business/pride-month-companies-reaction/index.html

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« Reply #763 on: June 02, 2023, 09:11:35 pm »

Quick rundown seems to be:

Seeing the same thing as we did with LGB rights, staying the course is rewarding, reversing just pisses everyone off (And makes people think "If they walk back on that, what about things that directly affect me?"), don't be hypocritical.
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« Reply #764 on: June 02, 2023, 11:17:53 pm »

we went to the pride march at the capitol without ever actually making it to the pride march at the capitol, lol, but we had a nice dinner, made faces at the mormon superbuildings, saw lots of queer folk ambling about, we bought funny tank tops, it was a great time.

it was a nice day to be out
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