I can relate to the part were you said that you felt they rejected you from the way you are. I remember I felt that way about myself when telling my friends and one of my family members about my sexuality. I’m so happy that you were able to look past all of that and find positives through all of that.
I'm getting SRS in like 81 days and honestly having genital dysphoria is kind of handy, because I just don't want to date until afterwards (when I'm already pretty far transitioned)
As someone who currently feels undesirable and longing for any embrace of love... Hearing your similar experiences made me realise that I'm not alone in this!
Thanks scribbs for talking a tuff topic. I'm still adjusting to my trans femininity. And I'm still at times confused just what gender I am attracted to. Since hormones I've become much more attracted to men than I thought I ever could be. And I enjoy being with a man. But I am equally still attracted to women. Although at times I think my attraction toward women is more a strong admiration of how beautiful they are and my longing to be as beautiful. I consider myself Bi and am open to relationships with both genders.
I really like these sort of more personal videos about your trans experiences. They're always a pleasant surprise, and are great to just...listen to, really. I've never dated anyone, and still am not totally sure if I'm trans or not, but those last notes were really reassuring.
As an aroace person who’s gender apathetic and possibly gendervoid, I can kinda relate to this. I never really felt any romantic attraction to anyone, and actually thought a fangirl/ boy was just someone who look up to someone and not you-know-what. I never really realized until now, and everything suddenly makes sense. Same thing applies to my gender identity. I know this was extremely off-topic, but I just wanted to say that.
I’m just a regular boy, straight and welp. There’s that. Tho my friends nowadays are mostly just ppl who are very much into the LGBTQ+ community. Even tho I don’t relate to a lot of the issues in this video (It’s still sad that ya had to find out the hard way tho), I do have a … “girlfriend”, or atleast… a partner in female body. ‘She’ is asexual (and I knew that from the very start of our atm 6 months + 3 days relationship) and ‘she’ is still struggling to find out what gender she really feels like she belongs to, despite being in a female body. I’m gonna be by ‘her’ side, no matter what she decides, she means the world to me <3. It is nice to see (?) or at least hear you talk about the struggles of dating whilst not being 100% comfortable with your own body. A lot of probs to you for trying to find someone (and seems that ya did find someone, that’s good :) ), despite your internal struggle with your own body and transness. It’s important to find someone who cares about you, for who you are.
FIRST OF ALL i have been wanting to say your new-ish art style is so CUTE the little squish blob avatar of yourself is so precious and the drawings in the video of you and your partner felt so different from stuff you drew before it was really refreshing?? tbh
It was a pretty great video, not weird or bizarre. Different to the ones you make but pretty neat overall. Yea, dating as a trans person can be hard. Gosh i relate so much to some of what you said... Cute art too!
A few years ago when I was just starting with the whole dating-thing (I'm a gay guy btw) and was still kind of terrified about it all, an old friend told me something I still quote to this day.
As someone who is about to start transitioning, this does help me feel better about any dating I might do in the future! I've never been in a relationship before, and was questioning my sexuality, and this just makes me feel like, no matter what I find myself to be, I'm not alone and not a lost cause.
I literally thought I was aro-ace until I transitioned, I started dating someone a few months ago and suddenly realized there may have been a different reason I was avoiding relationships, I am still ace, very rarely do I experience sexual attraction, but I definitely want a relationship once I am a bit more comfortable with my body
I'm a demisexual transfem so all of this is frankly fascinating. I only ever catch feelings for people I know well enough to not fall into any of those pitfalls either way. Which is slow and kinda random but has it's perks too.
