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submitted 4 days ago by may_be@thelemmy.club to c/asktransgender

so obviously, there's a lot of headcanons where people will say certain characters are trans or non-binary, and a lot of people will say "trans pride" or "trans rights".

well, what about the cis people and the cis detransitioners who say "cis/detrans rights" "cis/detrans pride"? i've been lately seeing more things where people will headcanon their favorite characters as cis detransitioners.

im fine with detransitioners and cis people, i don't really mind. but i guess i'm confused for some reason as a trans man... also, i don't really understand the cis pride/rights thing because they're not a minority, but detrans i can sorta understand because they're cis but they have experiences that aren't unique to all cis people but also not all trans people (since they detransition)

i guess, maybe deep down, i wish i could be cis... i wish detransition worked for me...

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[-] riwo 6 points 3 days ago

i think cis pride is just a rightist anti-pride kinda thing.

detrans pride on the other hand sounds like it can be legitimate. i think for people to be truely free in their gender expression, we need to be able to experiment, without getting scrutinzed, and that also means with the option to change our minds and not have to commit if it turns out something is not for us. because i can see how it might be hard to come out about detransitioning, out of fear that it will undermine ones autonomy, after having struggled for validity for so long before.

and idk about detrans rights, but i can imagine that there are certain legal rights that detransitioners might need or want, such as changing their legal gender and name again, and maybe getting hrt and surgeries paid through the medical system, to feel more comfortable in their bodies again. i would say in an abstract sense these are the same rights as trans rights, but i have noticed the way that laws often work, they can be exclusively written for certain groups (like how cis people can't just change their first names as easily, or how trans people are often denied the gender affirming hrt and surgeries (without prior therapy) that cis people can just get without question) i think it would be better for everyone, if we were allowed more freedom in our self actualization by state and society than we are rn :3

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