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General trans community.
Rules:
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Follow all blahaj.zone rules
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All posts must be trans-related. Other queer-related posts go to c/lgbtq.
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Don't post negative, depressing news articles about trans issues unless there is a call to action or a way to help.
Resources:
Best resource: https://github.com/cvyl/awesome-transgender Site with links to resources for just about anything.
Trevor Project: crisis mental health services for LGBTQ people, lots of helpful information and resources: https://www.thetrevorproject.org/
The Gender Dysphoria Bible: useful info on various aspects of gender dysphoria: https://genderdysphoria.fyi/en
StainedGlassWoman: Various useful essays on trans topics: https://stainedglasswoman.substack.com/
Trans resources: https://trans-resources.info/
[USA] Resources for trans people in the South: https://southernequality.org/resources/transinthesouth/#provider-map
[USA] Report discrimination: https://action.aclu.org/legal-intake/report-lgbtqhiv-discrimination
[USA] Keep track on trans legislation and news: https://www.erininthemorning.com/
[GERMANY] Bundesverband Trans: Find medical trans resources: https://www.bundesverband-trans.de/publikationen/leitfaden-fuer-behandlungssuchende/
[GERMANY] Trans DB: Insurance information (may be outdated): https://transdb.de/
[GERMANY] Deutsche Gesellschaft für Transidentität und Intersexualität: They have contact information for their advice centers and some general information for trans and intersex people. They also do activism: dgti.org
*this is a work in progress, and these resources are courtesy of users like you! if you have a resource that helped you out in your trans journey, comment below in the pinned post and I'll add here to pass it on
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that's my theory too. I am afab but I have a brother who got me interested in CS at a young age.
Perhaps reddit also has an AFAB problem. Or rather, the effect you're thinking of that makes cis women rare here applies equally to other afabs.
I pretty much stumbled into Lemmy. I'm not a programmer but have always been tech savvy and grew up with the Internet. I used reddit a lot because I liked being in a majority male space. Even when I was an egg, it would give me a rush of euphoria when people automatically assumed I was a dude on Reddit. I was one of the people who jumped ship from Reddit when all the API stuff went down.
Reddit doesn't seem like it's got as bad of an AFAB problem as it used to. When I left it wasn't uncommon for people to mention if they were a woman and wasn't as taboo from the looks of it. The trans spaces were pretty big and active. I'm sure the demographics are still slightly skewed but they're certainly not as bad as they were six years ago when I'd first joined.
I am happy to hear you are enjoying lemmy.
But I think we might be mincing words here with "problem."
problem: there are too few AFAB people in the space problem: the space is unwelcoming to AFAB people
Reddit may not be (excessively) misogynistic (or transmisandric), but fewer AFAB are on reddit than we would have liked. Lemmy I think is this but even more extreme.