The results of those Twitter polls about whether you need to experience gender dysphoria to be #trans.
It’s actually VERY surprising to me!
Here’s the first poll in the thread: https://twitter.com/cassolotl/status/885067494293204993
https://cybre.space/media/7X_S_H5EBQoeSqVDp4I https://cybre.space/media/rPUnJnMxkfkG082x47k https://cybre.space/media/C_BbhLyWwM19aRDbz78
@cassolotl I'm late to this but UGH, I wish I were surprised that binary people like me were 50% more likely than CIS people to say dysphoria = trans.
My only insight is that maybe staying in the binary brings extra pressure, social and internalized, to be "sure." Dysphoria lets us say, "Yes, I had to."
The thing is, my experience kind of lines up with this. When I have long, non-dysphoric stretches, I start to worry "maybe I'm not trans" (which is ~ridiculous~). That always leads to emotional collapse. It's gotten so I plan time off work when I feel it coming.
No real point, but these results are turning up my enby envy.
@cassolotl I'd be really interested to see how responses to the binary question vary across different binary trans identities.
@cute_weeds Yeah I think you're right. When the (cis) doctors who control our transitions require us to have dysphoria to actually transition, and even then sometimes say no, we start shoving each other under the bus. Urgh. :(