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Bob Semple Tank - Trans Megathread for the Week 2026-08-31 to 2026-09-06 (thelemmy.club)
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Look at this monstrosity New Zealand pumped out during World War II. Built in case of Japanese invasion, the tank was made by slapping corrugated iron on a tractor and calling it a day. The Japanese tanks were hardly great, but a Ha-Go is infinitely better than this. Nonetheless, I love it for its shittiness.

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[โ€“] 14 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

This is certainly a budding thought in me as I think about the future. After finishing transitioning, and assuming I pass as cis, what exactly would make me trans? Is it that I once had a penis and a beard? Is it just a mark on my personal existence that remains forever? While for example, the status of being a student goes away the moment I step outta college? Even though I'd be studying a lot in my job too, and being a student has defined my life much more than being trans?

I personally feel like that's just not a very materialist way of thinking of it. The substance has been transmuted. Its history has largely vanished into thermal noise. Why must the remaining scars traces define me?

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 11 hours ago (1 child)

    I consider myself trans, and I dont think its a bad thing to outrun or a "permanent mark on my existence" or a "permanent scar" ๐Ÿ˜Œ - and I pass the vast majority of the time, I had the surgeries and years of HRT, I accidently stealth now at work (sometimes it doesnt come up so Ive had coworkers whove known me for years and didnt know I was trans lol).

    I like being trans! I would like being a trans (in small letters) woman if I can describe it like that, like its just another part of me. Im a nurse, I went to my alma mater, Im from where Im from, I like nerdy ttrpgs, Im a transgender woman, I like dogs and babies, I can kinda speak french with a horrible mostly Anglo tiny slice parisienne accent, etc.

    Anyway, trans just means the doctors and your parents fucked up when they gendered you as a baby and it took longer for you to figure it out yourself.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

    Sister terminal I don't think you are outrunning a scar of any kind. And maybe scar was the wrong word. Trace?

    I mean I don't think you should call yourself cis if you like being trans. I was just wondering about myself mostly. Being trans for me is mostly just a bundle of personal sorrows that I gotta work through.

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  • [โ€“] 10 points 14 hours ago (1 child)

    Just means you're not cis. IMO it makes you cooler.

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

    I accept that as a meme answer but tbh it would probably feel like larping atp

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 11 hours ago (1 child)

    I'm not sure I can answer this either, to be fair. I'm not there yet, maybe someone that is closer to this situation could help, but I think everything you went through still counts, everything thing you had to do, everything that led you up to that point. Of course, as you said, being trans isn't your whole identity, but everything you went through molded you as a person, you can't take that away, you understand dysphoria, you understand what we have to go through and who we are, you have been put through it too

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 10 hours ago

    Hell no you ain't larping. When your transition's done & dusted you're still trans because you put in the work, put in the hours. Hours of dealing with therapist/doc/medical system BS, weekly injections/daily pills, changing your name in daily life & on documents, etc etc.

    Hell, even if you're someone who's satisfied with just knowing you aren't a boy/girl/whatever but are instead a ___, & thus your transition journey might've lasted a grand total of 10 minutes you still ain't larping when you're done. At the end of the day the first & only thing that makes you trans is the 'desire to be something other than/in addition to your assigned gender at birth'. Everything else is set dressing, signaling or making yourself at home in your body, in your life.

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