I did a fun (for me) science thread, but I promised I'd do a thread about trans men, virilismia, and the stigma against ugly women, so let's go! To start out: Are you a trans man whose spent some part of your life being perceived as an ugly woman? What do you make of that?
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Replying to @e_urq
I wouldn't use the word ugly for myself, but certainly unattractive (and others likely would have said ugly). I was hoping T and presenting as transmasc would change that, but so far it hasn't. Fatness is definitely a complicating factor for me, though.
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Replying to @ruthofallevil @e_urq
I'd love to find a good discussion of the intersections between fatness and dysphoria because it's been really hard for me to separate the two.
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Oh man, do I ever have thoughts as a fat trans man who used to be anorexic...
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Replying to @e_urq
"wanting to be as thin as possible to have as few curves as possible" is definitely a thing I've seen come up before from trans men. For me it's more like, "is it really dysphoria if all of society is constantly reminding me that my body actually is horrible?"
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That was me, along with feeling that being anorexic would allow me to finally succeed ('win') at womanhood. I don't love being fat as a cis-passing man, but its a different feeling from the revulsion I felt at being a woman that never went away no matter how skinny I got.
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