A guide to questioning your gender

Here's a fairly well balanced post/guide regarding questioning your gender identity and fears of transition regret - https://www.reddit.com/r/asktransgender/comments/e9ub2l/a\_guide\_to\_questioning\_gender\_and\_fears\_about/

>    Readjust your thinking out of the "either I'm a binary trans person or I'm a big fraud" framework. There have always been people who bent with gender! Stone Butch Blues is often described as an iconic lesbian text, but in the book the narrator shifts from identify as a lesbian to taking T and passing as a trans guy to identifying a "he-she" (I'd assume in modern language the narrator would ID as non-binary). And this book is set in 1970s! If you check out r/butchlesbians you'll see plenty of butch people who struggle w dysphoria and adopt parts of a medical transition. For AMAB people, you can check out posts in r/NonBinary (search HRT and AMAB) to see people's experiences with a medical transition that don't look like the conventional binary experience. If you start a social transition and then realize you don't feel like a trans guy so much as he/him lesbian, then great! If you start HRT and realize you identify as genderqueer, then great! If dressing femme makes you so comfortable that you no longer desire HRT, then great! You've found out something radical about yourself. The world is hard out there for gender-nonconforming people and if you "change your mind" it doesn't necessarily mean you made a mistake, but rather were following the necessarily bumpy road to understanding your place in this very heteronormative/strict-gender-roles society.
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## That's Gender Dysphoria, FYI

https://genderdysphoria.fyi/ - Learn about Gender Dysphoria and the wide variety of ways it can manifest

## The Null HypotheCis

https://freethoughtblogs.com/nataliereed/2012/04/17/the-null-hypothecis/

## Indirect Gender Dysphoria

https://the-orbit.net/zinniajones/2013/09/that-was-dysphoria-8-signs-and-symptoms-of-indirect-gender-dysphoria/

## GIDYQ-AA

https://thomasingenderland.com/2016/11/08/gender-dysphoria-diagnosis-part-5-gidyq-aa-full-text/ - the commonly used DSM diagnostic criterion for gender dysphoria in adults

## Managing dysphoria

https://trialeterror.home.blog/2018/11/25/alternatives-to-transition-a-step-by-step-guide-to-thinking-your-way-out-of-dysphoria-without-repressing-it/ - ⚠️ this article incorrectly assumes gender is the same as biological sex but overall it may still be useful

## Some useful advice for people in early stages of their transition

https://www.reddit.com/r/MtF/comments/ihptyc/advice\_to\_my\_pretransition\_self/

## Debunking the Autophilia Hypothesis and Blanchardism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6czRFLs5JQo - a thorough debunking of Ray Blanchard's hypothesis for the existence of trans people, by ContraPoints

## Dangers of the "Gender Critical" ideology

https://www.reddit.com/r/TransSpace/comments/la9piy/an\_exdetranstioner\_disavows\_the\_antitrans/ - talks about the dangers of ideological de-transition, and the serious harm that the transphobic hate-group that goes under the guise of being "gender critical" does to trans\* and gender non conforming people

See also: https://youtu.be/1pTPuoGjQsI - Gender Critical by ContraPoints

## Other topics under Gender Identity

* Non-Binary 101
* Resources on the basics of all things Trans\*
* Medical Transition in India