/townhall/ - Townhall

I've been hanging out in the ponychan/ponyville community for 12 years at this point and despite all my best efforts to share my experiences with being transgender the entire time I've been here, it really frustrates me how people here (mainly in /townhall/) will still regurgitate bullshit about transgender people like myself despite everything I have ever shared about my experiences.

I mean, from my perspective the situation is an absurdity worthy of Camus, what I experience is a part of my private subjective experience of being myself and by the nature of entirely subjective experiences, it produces no physical evidence I can share with anyone. It's a feeling of dissonance and incongruity between what seems intuitive in my mind and what I recognize and experience 24/7 with the body I have. I'm not delusional, I don't believe I was literally born female nor do I believe I have a female soul or anything like that. I know I was born male and that I have a male body complete with a deep voice, facial hair, thick body hair and male genitals ... all of which has always been unnerving to me for reasons that I have no explanation for and it makes as little sense to me as it would to you. And yet, those here who would oppose my right to the pursuit of happiness and would demand I produce the empirical evidence to justify what I am doing to mitigate the pain of that dissonance, seemingly unaware or unconcerned that such a standard is literally impossible and instead continue to repeat the most bad faith strawman narratives about me and others like us here that get passed around in all sorts of transphobic echo chambers all over the internet.

I'm not going through transition for ideological, philosophical, or religious reasons. I've been on hormones for nearly 2 years now and the benefits have been much more than 'merely cosmetic', before I went through any visible changes, I went through very welcome psychological changes, it's literally for the sake of my mental health and I don't care if that creeps you out or disgust you cause it doesn't make sense to you.

You aren't omniscient, and maybe people outthere experience things you do not or cannot experience, just because it doesn't make sense to you doesn't give weight to your paranoid solipsistic narratives about it, and your paranoid narratives about it don't justify your support for any politician or their policies to rob us of the right to become comfortable in our own skin for thePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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I find it more tragic for a 20 year old person to die (assuming they were a good person) rather than say a 5 year old child. People talk about potential and yada yada, but at the end of the day the 20 year old had 20 years of connections and bonding with the people around them and survived the hardships of childhood.

Great now I have to go from tapping the "nothing ever happens" sign to saying that ok maybe sometimes things happen

Are you for team anal, or do you stand by Truth and Justice?

Capybaras and other animals closely associated with South America alone (and like nowhere else) should be fully domesticated and then brought to other continents. I think. At least, well, I'd love for that to happen.

Does anybody else agree?

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I am drowning

Do you ever feel that people get too horny for certain 'Pokemon' and 'Digimon'?

Does that ever make you frustrated? At least, well, a little bit?

It looks like Trump won.

Is it hypothetically possible that people in support of Donald Trump could unite to some degree with those who voted against him by this big tent of voters mutually opposing either China, Iran, North Korea, or Russia, or some combination of those governments?

Or is that not at all possible?

What will end up happening, in your view?

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How do we think all those on far left who are right now screaming and crying into cameras about how Trump is going to deport all Mexicans and lock all non straight white men, all LGBT and trans people in concentration camps and remove all womens rights going to feel when none of that happens?

Should people who aren't Chinese accept the fact that as a civilization and as an ethnicity / race their time to dominate the planet as a whole (or at least something like half of it) has come?

Has the model of multiracial, multiethnic, multireligious, etc democracy based on classical liberalism and the equality of opportunity failed, with countries such as the U.K. and the U.S. faltering? And is it time for traditionalist thinking based on authoritarian and community-centric ethical values of social order, family, purity, cultural cohesion, heritage, etc to rise, given the increasing strength of China, Iran, North Korea, and other such countries? Are the latter nations stronger due to their lack of feminism, homosexuality, ethnic mixing, minority religious rights, and other social values that the former nations fiercely defend?

To be specific, how great is Chinese naval power? What do you think it is going to be used for? And are you confident in your prediction? What is it based on?