Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online

Re:Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online by wizzwizz4 on Thursday January 23, 2025 @04:33PM (#42808310)

Any argument against zodiac (birth) signs would apply equally well here. In fact, zodiac signs survive criticism better, because at least they have well-defined boundary conditions. What kind of "fetishistic transvestism" do I have if I'm a sex-repulsed aromantic trans woman?

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Re:Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online by popcalc on Thursday January 23, 2025 @04:38PM (#42808358)

Transitioning is a big deal and upends your life. You'll only do it if you really feel you need to. It's a process, not a momentary declaration. Neither AGPs nor HSTS are generally asexual. The OP's website is extremely explicitly sexual. Your Zodiac analogy has no basis for comparison. Sometimes there are only a handful of possible causes for a condition with very little overlap. The only thing AGP and HSTS have in common is how they wish to present to the world by definition. It actually fits essentially every individual who seeks to endure the excruciating process of transition.

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Re:Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online by wizzwizz4 on Thursday January 23, 2025 @04:42PM (#42808386)

So it fits "essentially every individual", except the example I just gave? Come on, even Freudian psychoanalysis has a better success rate than that.

> the excruciating process of transition

I have only ever seen people describe transition with words like "excruciating" for two reasons:

• Social barriers, e.g. medical gatekeeping, transphobic bigotry.

• Believing in the Blanchard or 4chan classification systems, and constantly judging themselves accordingly.

Please don't hold onto this so tight. It's not healthy, and there's zero evidence that it's even remotely true.

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Re:Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online by dang on Thursday January 23, 2025 @05:01PM (#42808514)

Could you please stop taking this thread down a generic tangent, which is inevitably a generic flamewar tangent? This is a Show HN thread about t4t's new forum.

"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online by LordDragonfang on Thursday January 23, 2025 @04:43PM (#42808390)

https://aella.substack.com/p/everyone-has-autogynephilia

If you want to base your understanding of the world on data rather than anecdata, here.

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Re:Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online by LordDragonfang on Thursday January 23, 2025 @04:57PM (#42808485)

> we can move on

Considering you've replied to 3 different threads starting the same flame war (and are apparently unwilling to accept actual data), I am very skeptical of your ability to move on.

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