Okay, so! The epic link list! It turned out to be much more than I'd planned but whatever, I hope it'll be helpful. Sorry it's long (and sorry it's late).
Wikipedia:
gender,
sexual identity,
gender role,
transgender.
A lot of things like Wiki or other articles or published studies were done by straight, cisgendered academics, not by queer people, so there may be an unintentional bias to them and there may be a gap in how well they understand what they're writing about, but it's decent info nonetheless.
Here's the
genderform. It's just a lot of the different things that people can identify as... A lot more than the usual female or male, straight or gay, cisgendered or transgendered stuff. Kind of gets you thinking about how your identity doesn't have to fit into a binary.
The first thing I thought of to link you to were these threads: Yaminon is a Gaia user and makes "ask a transsexual" threads in the GD. I totally don't know him at all and am thoroughly creeped out by myself because I had to search for topics created by him to find these, but his threads could be helpful to you, to just read about an FTM's experiences.
I don't know where the first thread is because I didn't want to go through that much of his history, but I've still got a
lot of them here:
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
10. I haven't read past the first post on some of them, so if those turn out to be full of fail, I'm sorry. On the next two links, I didn't read past the first or second page, but
this thread has some discussion of parents dealing with trans children and
this one is an epic display of Gaian asshattery for the first bunch of comments but then turns into a discussion of relatives' acceptance of a trans family member's identity (specifically, using the right pronouns). I feel like such an internet creeper so I'm stopping here. Eww. Sorry for doing that, Yaminon!
LiveJournal communities:
ftm_youth,
transyouth,
ftm,
transgender,
FTM pre&post,
testosterone,
transnews,
transhealth,
any_bodied_men,
partners_of_ftm (for people in relationships with FTMs... kind of interesting. Gives another perspective.),
trans snark,
gsa_lj,
life without transition,
queer,
bigender,
birls,
androgyny_love.
There are probably a ton of relevant guilds on Gaia and a lot more links to be found (like websites entirely devoted to this), but alas, it is 3:30 AM and I need sleep. If I've used any terms you're not used to or said anything confusing don't hesitate to ask me about it. I'll be back here tomorrow (er, later today, technically speaking).
Reply
