it implies I pretend to be a woman to trick people, really gross.

Best argument I’ve heard as to why it’s a slur. Honestly thank you.

Huh… Some friends have been calling me tranny granny for a while now…

Wait tr*nny is a slur…? Why?

Probably a hot take but I disagree, it’s the same issue as the whole “trap is a slur” situation that I also disagree with.

The issue is that, if the word is used against a trans woman without bottom surgery, it’s a term that might not fit or be appropriate. With trap, it’s just straight up misgendering, but it might fit someone who still identifies as male. With futa, (if I underatand your point) it might carry a lot of sexual meaning with it which could be inappropriate.

It’s an issue with “who uses the word to describe who”, and therefore isn’t in my eyes a slur.

Edit: clarification

I’m actually generally scared of the fact that the entire world seems to wander more into right-wing conservatism…

My main hope is that parties like the AfD, the FPÖ (right-wing extremist party that won the election in Austria), Trump, … will see things like gender identity as more of a side issue in the world and not doing anything, neither good nor bad because they have “better” things to do. I have no clue how gender identity even became a political issue in the first place but it really needs to stop

Some more alternatives to common tracker filled stuff:

• Google play store -> F-Droid (specific open scpurce apps)
• Google play store -> Aurora store (gets apps from google)
• YouTube/Soundcloud -> Newpipe (integrated adblock)
• google maps -> OpenStreetsMap (website) or OsmAnd (android)
• amazon -> your local store, pay in cash

More browsers:

• Waterfox (cut down version of Firefox) (Linux, Windows, android)
• duckduckgo (android)

Search engines:

• Startpage
• duckduckgo
• brave

Cheaper alternatives to Proton (if you pay): VPN:

• PrivateInternetAccess
• Hide.me

Mail:

• tuta
• mailinator (for creating temporary spam mails) (free)

I sure hope so, I’ve been going through a rough patch for quite a few weeks now…

But I’ll take the best of it. HRT might have made me into even more of a crybaby but the fact that I’m managing even now proves that I have become a lot stronger with it

I probably just experienced the worst week in a long while…

My insomnia is getting bad enough that my sleep meds don’t work, I had a massive panic attack in the middle of a train station (couldn’t breathe properly and move and stuff) and just sobbed on the floor for 10 minutes without anyone giving a shit about me and me continuing to cry for 3 hours after coning home.

Then I found out that we’re being kicked out of our home soon and then I had a reeeaallyyy rough meeting with my boss which led me to cry for another 15 minutes at work (I was alone in the office at that point since I had so much work that I had to do ~10h of overtime despite being employed full time already).

Then when the week was finally over and I thought that it can’t get any worse, my dad called me and told me that one of our cats died…

And finally, the only thing I was looking forward to all week, an online event in a game. I wasn’t able to join because fuck if I know.

Life just hated me for 7 days in a row but I’m still standing. Probably because I did the best decision ever and took an emotional support plushie with me to work.

I’m still standing!

A fan would be possible but I would not be able to sleep with it turned on either… TwT

I hate to admit it but I can’t do much sadly… Most of the sleep issues right now are caused by heat and I can’t really do anything against it (for example installing an AC is literally illegal because of the type of house). (Yes, I’m looking to move again dw)

But hey, I started E today so maybe that’ll help a little

God I feel this so much. The only real free time I get is on train rides to work and back, and even there like 50% of the time I’m flat asleep until I arrive at my stop because I’m sleep deprived.

I know I’m not the one that should be saying this but by now, after several years of doing this, I can say from experience that sleeping 4 h during the day and crashing for 12 h on the weekend really isn’t healthy…

Please try to take better care of yourself than I do

Yeah all of my transition happened really fast for me so that probably didn’t help either

I’ve got no words… Thank you so much TwT

…I’m so glad I’m not the only one with this fucking goblin up there telling me lies ;w;

Plus I’d panic a little if someone used it in public because I was afraid of negative attention.

God I feel that sooo much. I know that none cares but I still can’t shake feelings like that.

Interestingly enough, same here. I guess tho that a differentiating factor with me is that I quite like my dead name (even if I can’t pronounce it)

I’m luckily able to start estro next week so I just gotta worry about my name change…

Thinking that transitioning can be worse in our neighboring countries is wild, considering how much stupid paperwork and waiting for appointments I had to do. I can do this.

…sorry for the slight terminology mishap, I admittedly am not very well educated on politics and especially not it’s terminology. But thank you for the explanation

I genuinely feel sorry for you, you don’t even have the privilege of gender neutral pronouns in German ;-; (except for “es”)…

Let’s just hope that what you said will actually be true… I’d rather have that conservative party that can’t seem to not be in some controversy in our Parliament than those far right fuckers

Trans femme / A-gender gurl here to assist your data!