So, I have a more personal feeling about trans community, and an evolving one. My coming out was honestly WITHOUT support or acceptance from the very few trans people I knew of. 1/
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Partly it was because we weren't friends for various reasons, another pat was because I didn't realize my transness "the right way" I grew up in places where, by my perception, trans community is really just you and 1-3 people within 50 miles of each other you maybe find out about online 2/
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NGL, it was cis women I feel I got the most support from for being who I am. It was my wife, my therapist, and my coworkers. One I had a network of supportive cis women I could call friends did I have the space for my personal transness to flourish. 3/
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And dont get me wrong: I've done mutual aid for another girl who needed her estradiol, I've been there to congratulate and give support to the couple trans people who decided I was safe enough to come out to. Community, though, and this is entirely a personal anecdote, was always elusive 4/
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Partly because, and this is as much a problem with me being introverted as other things, community requires bonds of care and mutual respect, and feeling welcomed and valued. 5/5
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