Reacting To Your Weird Dysphoria Triggers 

i get dysphoric whenever a youtuber or tiktokker i watch says what percentage of their viewers are what genders and they have a higher percentage of female viewers

“yeah my weird dysphoria trigger is _______” my dysphoria: *WRITE THAT DOWN WRITE THAT DOWN*

i swear sometimes dysphoria is just spicy sexism 💀

I'm a trans man and I love girlboss songs like YES IM ONE OF THE GIRLS but if someone calls me girl I feel the whole range of negative emotions lol

just so everyone here knows, my (cis) dad moves his hands so much when he talks he smacked me on accident one time

To all the trans people feeling self conscious about talking with your hands: simply move to Italy, we all talk like that, we got your back!

I feel dysphoric if my hands are above my waist. If I'm holding a cup or my dog's leash, I'm like "Men don't hold things????" Also sitting down, and my thighs look bigger.

I'm a (straight?) cis guy who clicked on this out of curiosity, and I completely forgot about this entire chapter of my life, but I was mistaken for a girl a lot when I was a little kid (big eyes, long curly hair) and some of these resonate with me like crazy. For years I would hyperfixate on not crossing my legs or putting more weight on one leg than the other, and not knowing a ton about fishing/cars/sports still bothers me. Some other weird ones were being barefoot, singing, those t-shirts with the sleeves that have the stripe and the shoulders that puff out like the shoulders on a princess dress, chapstick cause it made my lips look shiny, and wearing a long shirt under a sweater cause I got scared that it looked like a skirt. Crazy stuff man. If you relate to any of those lmk lol.

Once, the fire alarm went off, and after the school was allowed back inside, they told the boys to stay behind. Apparently it had been set off by someone vaping in the men’s restroom. All the dudes were muttering and smirking like what usually happens when we’re to blame for causing trouble. The euphoria I got from that was hilarious. I was like FUCK YEAH we’re in trouble. Fuck yeah I use the men’s. Fuck yeah I’m under suspicion

Dysphoria is like that one r/arethestraightsok guy who's like "MEN, IF YOU DON'T HAVE A BEARD, YOU'RE A WOMAN"

As a transfemme one of my weird euphoria triggers is jean pockets, men’s pockets don’t tend to have cutesy designs and stuff while women’s pockets do (at least sometimes). I remember the first pair of women’s jeans I wore had a heart design on the pockets and I couldn’t stop smiling for like ten minutes after I first put them on.

Not dysphoria, but a euphoria trigger. I'm MtF, and despite having no large changes in weight, and never weighing more than 60 kg: I've developed stretch marks on my sides and back, and my mind just associates stretch marks with being feminine ig, so I just feel so nice knowing that they're there.

As a bio-anthropologist, my job is literally to tell archaeologists info about skeletons, sexing skeletons is super hard. Even if you have the most 'female' pelvic opening there is like a 1 in 4 chance that we'll sex it wrong. The reason you always hear those stories about skeletons of warriors being sexed as male and then re-sexed as female is we actually suck at our jobs. It's easier to tell what your diet was like in childhood then to sex a skeleton, especially without a pelvis. I had a prof who did a study where he compared chromosomally typed skeletal remains with the same remain skeletally sexed and it was like 25-35% incorrect.

One of my weird dysphoria triggers is feeling cold, shivering, etc. Fellas, is it gay to maintain homeostasis?

I am a GNC trans man so it's hard to relate to most of these (pretty happy about my body except for my actual female parts) but I totally felt the "having my chest be referred to as female terms" Never call my chest boobs, tits, breasts, whatever else. It's so gross to me and I'm sure many trans men hate that. It also words for my lower area as well. I don't even like referring to it at all, just pretend I am a Ken doll down there.

I have autism, and for some reason I lift my pinky when I drink tea, water, milk, coffee, or anything else. It makes the dysphoria brain go crazy, even though my cis dad, uncle, and grandpa all do it too

If you get pee dysphoria just grunt loudly so people assume you are having a manly bowel movement

I'm a pre-T ftm highschooler on the swim team, pretty self-explanatory

Pregnancy and baby related ads trigger my dysphoria for the exact opposite reason, cause I can’t give birth and those ads always makes me unbelievably sad.

Oh my goodness, this is the most relatable video I have EVER seen. My weirdest dysphoria trigger is probably hugs. The way the person kinda presses up against your chest and usually has like an arm near your hips... ughh. I literally either refuse hugs or just hold myself as far away from my arm as physically possible and then the other person just thinks I hate them or am an anti social freak... which I mean I am..

There is nothing more infuriating than being a trans male with a twin brother. I compare everything about us, he's taller, has a deep ass voice, it fucking fucks with me so bad

“Speaking of hips, yours are so wide, because you’re a woman” nooo that one hurt oof

Things that don’t fail to make me feel dysphoric: my family (specifically my mom) making uncomfortable jokes towards my body, poking my chest, and making sex jokes 🙂 Gotta love living with conservative “Christian” parents

Honestly, the “being around lots of women” one is relatable. It just feels like I only have female friends because they just see me as one of the girls, and whether or not that’s the case, it hurts. Could also be why, despite my bisexuality, I’m more interested in getting a boyfriend than a girlfriend.

As a trans woman, I get dysphoric from doing the yard work and working on my car. I was an Army mechanic and we had female soldiers in our unit but it just makes me feel like my neighbors are watching me and being like, "yup that's a man right there." I also know plenty of cis women into cars and obviously they do their own yardwork lol.

weird trigger: thinking about dying before i transition fully and having to die in this body and looking like this on my funeral.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="435">7:15</a> I'm a trans woman and I have a sister who's almost exactly 2 years older than me. While we were growing up I was literally looking at the puberty that I wanted to have but never got, at least not until I started HRT 4 and a half years ago. I should mention that although I was jealous of my sister growing up I do still love her and we're very close as adults.

I'm a gay cis guy and 1. all of these things made me question the masculinity of my own behavior (it's not just trans guys that worry about their masculine images! for real), and 2. It made me think about things i say and do that might inadvertently trigger dysphoria in trans people around me. It's important to think about this stuff, so thanks 💙

I’m trans & on the autistic spectrum and a lot of the time my brain just refuses to gender things so gives me relief from my dysphoria. When other people gender things it usually really confuses me

"all females have a freckle on their wrist" me (a trans girl): *checks wrist and see freckle* also me: *simultanious shocked pikachu face and smile*

"watching softball" - ah yes, the "lol why don't you just admit you're a lesbian?" Flavor of dysphoria.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="827">13:47</a> no because my dad deadass says only women and children should use umbrellas. now it’s an inside joke between me and my sister, if we do anything masculine we say “i’m a manly man i don’t need an umbrella or anything”

I didnt think I had any weird triggers and then I remembered I'm physically incapable of being comfortable playing female characters in video games

“Speaking of hips. Yours are so wide. Because you’re a woman” the looking at the camera during that made me feel under attack ngl

i'd love to see a version of this for weird euphoria things. for example when i burp, like hella loud, it's disgusting but i'm still like... :) im so cool now :)

My brother is 6yo and seeing his very boyish childhood and having toys and having friends who are boys makes me irrationally jealous. I don't hate him, but sometimes I feel like I don't want to be around him or hear about his day because it makes me feel bad or like I missed out on childhood experiences I should've/wished I had

Mine is colored socks. If they aren’t black, my brain goes, “wow those are some real FEMALE LOOKIN FEET”

weirdest dysphoria trigger i own: having lips

As a straight guy this video is interesting to me bc all of the triggers are either weirdly specific things that nobody would really notice or something that is only really exclusive to a stereotypical man, which admittedly must be annoying in areas where these stereotypes are more heavily enforced societally

Can we talk about euphoria triggers next? Mine is watching a video about dysphoria triggers and relating to all of them, makes me feel like a valid trans

Hands moving when you talk? You are not feminine, my man, you are Italian and you don't know it yet. Love from Italy

AGAIN there is no masc or fem way to write. My grandpa writes like a victorian queen and my grandma writes chicken scratch. Don’t worry about that fam 😤

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="438">7:18</a> i'm an only child but most of my closest friends are cis guys and knowing them since around/before the start of puberty, hearing their voices drop n shit really gets to me :")

I have two younger brothers. I started T one week and one day ago. I was born in 2003. My eldest younger brother, is just now a freshman. Watching them BOTH grow taller than me, deeper voices and beards has been hell, and its been harder on me in terms of getting bigendered, because before puberty hits, we've all looked very androgynous - even feminine (we dont usually cut our hair, i was the only boy of the family to do so lol) so normally no one would say anything, but now that im inches shorter, and several pitches higher, its become hard. Im glad im on T when i am. Its taken me years and years, but soon i will be able to say i am adult man, with a name that feels like ive known it a million lifetimes before. Its bad, but its getting better. besides, all 3 of my brothers have always been supportive, and my family doesnt enforce gender roles and never really has. Both I and my oldest younger brother dressed up in princess dressed. But we were more prone to play matchbox cars together. And we didnt have much money, so i wore hand-me-downs from my older brother all the time. I wouldnt have traded the experience for the world at the end of it all, because i know they are there for me. And we are brothers. I wonder, if it has been painful for them too.

i get dysphoric when I'm the first guy someone has dated bc they "usually are into girls".

Whenever I’m watching criminal minds and they’re describing a teenage girl’s rooms like “teenage girls tend to have brighter decorations and stuffed toys on their beds. Teenage boys don’t.” And im like, wait, I have stuffed toys on my bed... but I’m a teenage boy... goddamnit. I’m too feminine... fuck. Gets me every time.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="597">9:57</a> I once forgot to put my name on my paper and the teacher was asking whose it was. “It looks like a girls handwriting” You could tell she felt so bad 😂

Weirdest Dysphoria for me: Me, a MtF always being asked to carry heavy things because I used to be a football player, and wrestler.

that skeleton one about archaeologists digging up my skeleton is part of why i'm being cremated lmao good luck gendering dust

“I didn’t think about that” “but now I will” 👁👁

My weirdest dysphoria triggers are -hearing my own breath, coughs and sighs cuz I can’t lower them -when I’m happy/laughing -holding my jacket -drinking -the way my backpack makes me look -my room

i (transfemme) was unironically playing among us the other day. one guy was saying to vote out all the women and thus vote 2 other people. i was upset that they werent being sexist to me.

Wearing a binder actually makes me dysphoric,,, I’d rather pretend they’re not there than have something pushing up against me all day. Plus I’m not flat enough with a binder so then I get extra upset, like “wow even a binder won’t make me look masculine enough” so I just don’t wear one. Can’t wait until I can get enough money for surgery 😔

Weird things I get/used to get dysphoric about: -preferring tea over coffee -the month I’m born in -being studious -the toppings I put on my sandwich -being around my girl friends (feeling like I’m one of them) -being around my guy friends (not feeling like I’m one of them enough) -being a vegetarian -the type of music listen to -being punctual -being gay -the way I hold my phone -the way my desk looks

Afab they/them; my psych class had a ‘thought experiment’ as part of it where we had a survey where we had to think about if we were pregnant and how we would feel about it. If the questions weren’t fixed choice, every question would have been met with a fucking paragraph. Also my psych class is all girls, and I’ve had multiple people in it tell me they’re glad that it’s ‘only us girls’ and since I’m not fully out I’ve just gone ‘haha mmhmhmm…’ every time

So many of these are so relatable. I'm pre-op and even pre HRT but I got clocked as male at my new job, and now I'm hyper aware of all my mannerisms (pun intended) and if I'm acting like an actual guy on a crew of all men.

Hot take: r/arethestraightsok is just cis people talking about their weird dysphoria triggers.

the "for him" and "for her" sections on any kind of retail website

As an NB, mine is definitely flying. It's because where I live the government hasn't caught up with NB existing, so all the tickets have Mr./Miss/Ms./Mrs. prominently before the name.

I'm a trans woman watching this and it is funny how many triggers trans guys have that I had myself. Pre transition, I worried about people knowing my secret of being trans so I always was so self conscious of, "Does this look feminine? Oh no, walk more manly." These thoughts expressed in the video are very familiar. Of course it was awesome to finally stop acting masculine for me. I don't think I heard the beach mentioned. The bathing suit thing would kill me with dysphoria. Also, your broad hip concern was my broad shoulder concern.

I think my oddest dysphoria trigger is being mlm. I’m Bi and lean more towards men and I’m constantly having to convince myself that finding men attractive isn’t a feminine thing.

When something I, a gay trans man, like is memed as being a way to identify lesbians - "If you like Hozier you're probably a lesbian" that kind of thing

Someone once said that “girls do a little happy dance when they eat something” and I knew that I did that so now I get dysphoric about it.

I am cis and I just realized I felt weird about having muscles all my life because I didn’t want to look too manly… 🙃

Every time I sing "man, I feel like a woman," I commit the extreme sin of lying to Shania Twain

Your dog MOST LIKELY still knows you're you. You probably smell roughly the same. Like, a dog recognizes someone after they go through puberty and you basically went through a second puberty. So, I would guess that she knows you're you.

Happy to tell you that it's incredibly likely that your dog knows you raised her! Humans are exactly incredibly strange in the fact that we rely heavily on sight to identify others of our species instead of smell like most other land mammals. Since your smell either hasn't change much or has changed gradually of a very long amount of time, your dog probably knows that you've always been there for her because you smell like her owner.

i havent watch trans related content and a while and I forgot how relatable this is and like how there's so many people who feel the same things that I do that I feel bad about

I was riding a horse. And I didn’t have a binder on. And my dysphoria sacks were bouncing up and down like an anime girl’s. and my boss commented on how I was becoming a woman. And I just got really sick to my stomach

I support feminism but I can’t call myself a feminist because of how much dysphoria it gives me oof.

Oooh I can absolutely relate to the brother thing. A couple of months ago I took and edited some pictures of my brother, who basically looks exactly like me but male. And I stared at these pictures, constantly thinking: "god i wish that were me"

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="592">9:52</a> if it makes you feel any better, I'm a cis woman with a really big head (average sized hats in shops normally don't fit me), and I know many cis men with pretty small heads. Sometimes even to the point where I wonder if they should buy children's hats (not meant in a derogatory way!). So this comment is meant to comfort you about whatever size your head is, it's all normal and natural ❤️

my birthname is a month. so i get dysphoria for an entire month, just being constantly reminded of my birthname. i also get dysphoria from wearing binders, oddly enough, cause i can feel the material against my chest, and im afraid people will look at me in my binder and be like "yeah, youre still a woman, no matter how hard you try to hide your body."

One time I was sitting in my bedroom and my brain was like "is this a boys bedroom? You have posters and shit on ur walls that's not a boys bedroom!!" Literally what tf does that mean brain.

Pls do another one of these videos. It really does make me feel euphoric to know people have some of the same dysphoria triggers that I do lol.

"if i had a brother i would HATE him" yeah same i hate my cousins LMAO

My dead-name is a name of a month, and every year I have to live through everyone saying my dead-name all the time, referring to the month. It gives me a small heart attack every damn time.

I said this on Twitter lmao but putting lotion on my legs ✊😔

I got self conscious and really dysphoric over going to church.. That was new

The "brother" I was jealous of turned out to be my sister so I guess neither of us was having a good first puberty

I'm cis, but suddenly high-pitched "polite voice" is such a mood

Hey as a trans masc person with a brother, I don't hate him. He started puberty before me and his voice dropped and I got upset, ofc. But he is the most supportive little brother. But now I am on T and catching up :) 5 months now! He is still supportive and does shit like "let me check leg hair" just smacks my leg and goes "man!"

Imagine having 5 brothers and you're supposed to be the "only daughter" and watching all of them easily grow into men with not a single effort lmao. Couldn't be me

It's always wild clicking on transmasc videos and watching some handsome lumberjack dude worry he's not manly enough. Y'all are doing great!

this video has made me realise how being trans affects a person so much more than I previously realised. like, I knew it was a massive deal and everything but this just sounds so exhausting.

When I write in my journal, I say “dear book” instead of “dear diary” bc that shit makes me so dysphoric ik that’s kinda weird Edit: (thx so much for the likes & comments guys! y’all r funny lmao)

That thing you said about dysphoria on male privilege is so true. I work with a trans guy in a hospital and we were making routine bloodwork (or blood exam, idk how you call that in the US) on internees and there was this guy that didn’t want to have his blood collected by women, and since I was already in the lab, my trans friend was the only man available, so he collected his blood. He told me he felt validated at the same time he felt terrible for it.

My half brother is a transmale. And we're talking about this topic a lot. He recently accidentally used his fiance's shower gel and freaked the hell out. Seems like his dysphoria doesn't like the idea of smelling like cherry pie 🤣

Not a dysphoria trigger, but a weird EUphoria trigger: I figured out that I can fit my fist in my mouth, which makes my manhands not feel so big

My heartbeat makes me dysphoric because once in science the teacher said that women’s hearts beat faster

god i feel the brother thing SO hard. my brother is a year younger than i am, so i got to watch him go through puberty after i was basically finished with my first one (early bloomer) and watching him shoot up like a weed and voice drop and all that made me so bitter and self conscious, especially around extended family. really, being around other boys during high school in general made me feel like shit cause of course the older we got the more they all physically matured and the harder it was to blend in with them.

the umbrella one is so true, i'll stand in the pouring rain, get completely soaked before i open an umbrella

My disphoria trigger is seeing all the guys at my school going through male puberty (specifically voice drop) and I'm still in the wrong body

lisenting to a lot of male singers and not being able to sing like them cause my voice isn't deep enough

The bathroom one is so accurate😂 it's funny to think about how as a girl it was like the worst thing to have other ppl think you're taking a 💩 in a public restroom, but as a guy that's the goal to justify the sitting🤦🤦🤦😂

I feel dysphoric when I sit on the right side of the benches at the entrance to my school, it's mostly girls on the right side but the left side which has mostly boys on it is usually full

Pov: "having a freckle on your wrist'' - everyone looks at their wrists😂

whenever i bump my hip against the counter or somethin, wearing those little ankle socks

my weirdest trigger is being called handsome even though im trans ftm, I'm not even joking. Mainly because whenever i say i feel dysphoric my friends go "noo you're so handsome!" and i just think "eyo you don't call any of your cis dude friends and crushes handsome why are you singling me out-"

i just found your channel through another video and i’m having a ball. these are topics i don’t often explore within myself so it’s interesting to hear about them