Ambii [she/her, they/them]
ex good_girl
I’m kinda like if a trans girl and a trans girl had a baby
Don’t say “I think i might be…” or “I’ve been thinking”, nothing that will sound like an opening to dismiss or argue your feelings.
“I am” or “I’ve known for [time frame]” work best because they cement your feelings as a fact.
Expect questions that might feel overly invasive or personal that you may not want to or be ready to share like “Why do you feel this way?”, “Are you sure?”, “What made you feel this way?”, “Are you going to do x, y or z?”
Coming out is the hardest step, I promise you things get much easier to talk about once it’s out in the open.
You got this!
How do I even answer a question like this
These questions don’t need to be answered truth be told. Sometimes we just feel things and we feel that those things are just right. But I think your response really depends on you and how you feel about yourself and the path you see in front of you.
For example if someone I came out to asked me “Are you sure?”, if I was feeling especially confrontational that day I’d turn it around on them and ask them how are they sure they’re not trans. Or if I knew the person a bit more personally and was okay with talking about my deeper feelings, I’d talk to them about how horrible I felt before coming to an understanding of who I am.
spoiler
“Doll” feels so so so bad, it’s by far the most infantilizing term for transfems.
Personally I’m realizing I don’t really vibe with ‘girl’ (for similar reasons to ‘doll’, it’s infantilizing) as in ‘i am a girl’, but when used in a similar way to ‘dude’, i’m completely fine with it.
‘Sis’ being used in a similar way to ‘dude’ is kinda rad tho.
“Queen” on the other hand is pure bad feels for me because of how heavily i associate it with the cis gay drag scene. Yeah I know it was used by cis women before drag got as popular as it is now, but I personally associate it cis gay culture too much to be comfortable with it.
Add something that neutralizes the spice next time
Changing my vote, as much as i want a deeply modded experience, i think including as many comrades as possible should be priority
controversial(?) topic
What’s the line on “tenderqueer”? i’m beginning to think it doesn’t mean what i thought it meant.
spoiler
there’s an uncomfrotable legacy in many online spaces of this softeness being used to avoid difficult internal disucssions and deflecting when shit does happen
Okay this is what I thought it referred to initially. I guess it’s not really that great of a term though?