SPARTAN047
Veteran Fetishist
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Very well said, Chrissy!Cultures do as cultures do. State-side, I still process a lot of patriarchal shame about being a trans girl. Don’t get me wrong - being a girl is amazing, and if I was told I could be a cis male comfortable in my skin or a trans female, I would choose the latter every time. But the shame we carry, at least for me, practically demands blending in. The older terminology is very showy and calls attention to us. I think the response to these designations is different by trans girl. I use tgirl to describe myself sometimes, but other trans women feel that is a fetishized title…
To be fair, this does seem to be a fetish thread.
But honestly, it’s all part of the territory. Trans women are better off being our own thing and not trying to hard to disappear into the female world … and goddamn if that isn’t a hard pill to swallow, but if we can do it, maybe we’ll feel like we belong to the special class of human, trans women, who fought for our girlhood instead of always feeling like outsiders because it wasn’t granted to us outright.
TBH I don't believe in a patriarchy, I've been criticized by men, women and other trans girls for being the sissy I am. The shame for me at least comes from everywhere.
I honestly want to be a trans woman too instead of a cis woman, because they're who I like and not because I have anything against them or cis men. I love having my penis and I'm not ashamed of it, unless I choose to.
I suppose this is a fetish thread in a way, but I've learned to live with that - everything's been fetishized throughout the ages, nothing will change that very much. I've myself got a fetish for trans women so it's hard to criticize others who do.
I agree that we have to fight for our status in a way, I've got a female profile on FB and most of the posts recommended to me are a bit anti trans. Or saying that we don't deserve to be women and use those bathrooms, etc.
TBH I'm on board with gender neutral bathrooms or trans bathrooms, it might fix that debate faster. I'd hate to make anyone uncomfortable by going into their spaces. I avoid cis people places, including even forum threads for that reason. Still, this is a thread about trans people.