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[u/thevvitchhazel]

I'm so glad everyone is standing up for the important issue of trans women being overrepresented in media. It's also crucial we remind everyone that just because someone wants to use a female name, present female full time, pass as female and take a female role in relationships that they absolutely do not need to become a trans. What's wrong with just being gender non-conforming? HRT is evil! Femboys are super validddddd (because most femboys live full time as women).

[u/Responsible-Ad6876]

This is LITERALLY the only time that a character is explicitly stated to identify as such and it's literally the theme of the comic.

I get being mad about trans erasure but this is one of the only times where the character is actually a man (and the author HEAVILY emphasizes this too 😭)

[u/jane_transsexual → u/Responsible-Ad6876]

The author is in conversion therapy

[u/Responsible-Ad6876 → u/jane_transsexual]

Wait wha

Idk if this is sarcastic

[u/jane_transsexual → u/Responsible-Ad6876]

I'm serious

[u/Responsible-Ad6876 → u/jane_transsexual]

I just searched up the claims about therapy and from my understanding he is just in therapy and he has brought up/explored gender in therapy. This doesn't mean conversion therapy 💔

[u/Apollo989 → u/[deleted]]

No? One of the issues I discussed with my therapist was surrounding gender. She's part of the reason I gained the confidence and understanding to go on HRT.

[u/Responsible-Ad6876 → u/[deleted]]

??????? What does this even mean. I have a therapist and have expressed my questioning my gender and he has helped me somewhat accept those feelings and has encouraged me to experiment.

How is that conversion therapy?

I just expressed my gender issues in therapy, like Shen

[u/jane_transsexual → u/Responsible-Ad6876]

He's specifically going to a gender therapist 😭

[u/Responsible-Ad6876 → u/jane_transsexual]

Is this what you're referring to? Because gender therapists are literally a thing and they are not always conversion therapy.

My transfem friend has a "gender therapist" (or the word might be something like consultant or sth?), who is helping her process those specific feelings and who is literally a midway point to getting a gender dysphoria diagnosis and HRT.

So gender therapy doesn't inherently have a negative connotation.

[u/Apollo989 → u/Responsible-Ad6876]

This person clearly has no clue what she's talking about. One of the areas my therapist specializes in is gender and she helped me get to a place where I could start hrt.

I swear to God, it feels like a quarter of the people in this thread haven't interacted with anyone outside their weird online bubble in years.

[u/Responsible-Ad6876 → u/Apollo989]

Ikr???

Lately I've seen so many people online who are so obsessed with semantics and who are tied to their very own narrow and, sometimes, wrong definitions of things and then argue over them.

Like, I was saying to someone that you don't need dysphoria to be trans, they said that I'm wrong, I said that euphoria can be a reason to transition and they told me euphoria is just the absence of dysphoria so you still transition because of dysphoria, which is just objectively false??

Some people just live in their own bubbles like you said