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Why It Sucks to Be Transgender (www.youtube.com)
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Yes, the thumbnail is horrible. The video is still good though.

Video description:

I bet you thought coming out as trans was all glitter, pride flags, and instant self-love. Cute, right? Turns out, it’s mostly confusion, paperwork, and people asking weird questions. So yeah, total blast.

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago

I blame evolution. Suffering such fundamental identity misalignment for some niche minority strategy benefit is fully consistent with how fucked up nature can be. Once you realize queer people actually reproduce for various reasons, you can let go of the outdated notion that we rely on cishets to exist. We're just as much a cog in the machine as people who are simply basic breeders.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago

I don't know where I heard this, but it's a lesson I have taken in: Nature does not strive for perfection, all it requires is a "good enough".

And that may very well be one of the reasons why so many people (the worst kind of atheists and christian supremacists among them) are challenged by the existence of queer people: They consider humans to be the pinnacle of creation/evolution and the messy reality of queer people's existence undermines the core of their beliefs. Yet humans are flawed, inherently messy creatures and in that messiness grow strange, often beautiful flowers.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago

Nature is literally "it just works" extrapolated for billions of years.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Participation ribbon that says "hasn't gone extinct so far"

[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

Yeah, that's always bugged me in the whole "but they don't reproduce" idea. I've known too many gay men and lesbians with bio kids, going back to the eighties. It makes the concept anywhere from dubious to outright silly.

I'm not saying that there can't be or aren't species wide benefits to any form of sexuality or gender, just that trying to frame it from a flawed hypothesis at the root is just bad science.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago

Great video! It really shows why people choose to be transgender. Lots of wonderful things that cis people are just plain missing out on. Probably explains why there are so many cis people who are upset at people being trans, jealousy!

But seriously. I don’t envy what you all go through but I do envy your strength to go through it all to be your true selves. Love! Gorgeous people!

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