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The original was posted on /r/transsexual by /u/livinginhell95 on 2023-06-10 17:19:09+00:00.

i know this was mentioned in another post too, but i wanted to mention it as well. i remember when i was younger before all of this, i felt so connected to that trans community, it was just one, clear definition, not an umbrella term, and everyone agreed you needed dysphoria to trans, we had all these laws in place for therapy to make sure that’s what we wanted, everyone believed in just two sexes. the transgender community i do not and cannot relate to at all. i remember seeing it first happen back in 2015, i was on tumblr, and that’s the first time i heard someone tell me that you don’t need dysphoria to be trans, and that literally blew my mind because of how absurd it sounded, so i spoke out against it saying you DO need dysphoria to be trans, not realizing there was a whole crowd of people against that belief, and at that time i had like 400 followers. i got constant anon hate telling me to kill myself and i was even stalked on my online game just for a whole group of people to tell me to kill myself through the game as well when i was just minding my own business playing it. i became severely depressed and i started questioning everything about what i believed, i felt so alone during that time period because i felt like i was the only one to believe that suddenly, questioning everything i knew about being a transsexual, from how i feel, to all the research i have done over the years. it is SO nice to see others have similar views now and that we seem to be building a proper transsexual community again that i can actually connect with. i’m hoping they start seeing how we’re calling ourselves differently from what they are