What are some of /lgbt/'s favourite non-4chan online discussion areas/chat boards/etc?
I've been visiting 4chan on and off for almost a decade, and while it does have a special place in my heart, I often find myself overwhelmed by the hateful garbage that /pol/ and their ilk interject with. I deal with enough of that in my day-to-day and when I'm in the comfort of my own home I'd rather spend my browsing time in an environment that's a little cozier. Where are the nice people online? I find most popular subreddits unappealing as well, mostly due to the hivemindiness, and the more niche ones with good communities can be hard to find. I've been on Tumblr since the site started and it's gone downhill in a huge way; there's very little user interaction and instead has become an instagram-esque culture of users congregating around the tumblr-famous.
Are Discord and closed FB groups some of the few places left where one can have meaningful anonymous interactions with internet pals?
Leddit tbqh. That's the truth of it.
I feel like you get much more honesty and a lot less hugboxing here than anywhere else. It's why I stick around.
t. Biscum
>>8851092
What are some of your go-to subreddits if you don't mind sharing? I'm not necessarily looking to discuss solely LGBT topics, just looking for like-minded people. It seems that anywhere I go to talk about literally anything (videogames, movies, music, books, news) I encounter people trying to wedge their intolerance into the discussion. Is this just the nature of anonymity on the internet, combined with immaturity? Why does it seem impossible to have interactions online that can compare to the quality of real life?
>>8851140
The easiest way is to go after communities you're interested in. Like I am in a discord with programmers, a fb group for entrepreneurs, and subreddits that all revolve around my interests. That's how Ive made great friends on the internet and avoided the whole "my queerness makes my life hard" thing every few minutes.
This (/lgbt/) is the only real LGBT oriented community I visit. If someone asks me from one of the other groups I'm in, I'm open about it and that's that.
why do transgirls think they have any chance with a guy that isn't a chaser/fetishist?
Everyone can tell they're male. You'd have to be in the 5% that pass, bailey jay-tier, and even then you're probably ugly and you probably have a super deep voice, like bailey. Trans-fetishism is super widespread, it's not a fucking tight knit community of creeps.
Why are they so fucking entitled and stupid lgbt??
pic related
>when you're upset with people for not sleeping with you
especially when you're average transperson looks like this and is also a furry
>>8850992
LEL
tee hee I just want trannies to fuck me right!!
I'm upset at the fucking sickening hypocrisy of these people
Elanna the Teacher edition
• Makeup tutorials: http://masterposter.tumblr.com/post/116605714860
• Male vs Female measurement data: https://www.bwc.ohio.gov/downloads/blankpdf/ErgoAnthropometricData.pdf
• Correct hormone levels: http://www.hemingways.org/GIDinfo/hrt_ref.htm
• Checking your levels: http://www.privatemdlabs.com/lp/Female_Hormone_Testing.php
• Transition time lines: http://imgur.com/a/qWpxv
• Mannerisms https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9Bk0GbW8xgvTgQlheNG5uw
• Voice Training: https://www.reddit.com/r/asktransgender/comments/1ske7b/mtf_voice_training_regimen/
http://www.genderlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/voicebook020.pdf
• Voice Help: http://webjedi.net/projects/lgbtq/speech-therapy/
• IRC: https://www.rizon.net/chat#mtfg
previous >>8848076
daily reminder that i'm in love with best girl
I got really sick right before my flight started boarding and I missed it. There goes $200 of money I don't have. Hi mtfg
elanna thread
Who came up with LGBT ...
Why not GBTL ?
Doesn't matter how the acronym is phrased, I just call you all freaks.
>>8850782
LGBT is Legbutt
GBTL is Gab tell???
GLBT is Galbutt, which is best
>>8850782
Lesbians are crazy, just let them be the "first" and hope they leave you alone.
I just wish we had more lesbian bars so they stopped flocking to the gay bars thinking they own the place while being aggressive towards all men in it.
>lfietime of agony and pain from growing up in a devout christian household
How do I overcome the shame and self-hatred and allow myself to transition? How do I become free?
>>8850724
Get it into your head that: God loves you, your still his child, and that pleasing him isnt the same as falling in line with the conservative church. I grew up in a home like yours, this is the passage that keeps me going.
Isaiah 56:4-5New English Translation (NET Bible)
4 For this is what the Lord says:
“For the eunuchs who observe my Sabbaths
and choose what pleases me
and are faithful to my covenant,
5 I will set up within my temple and my walls a monument
that will be better than sons and daughters.
I will set up a permanent monument for them that will remain.
>>8850724
As odd as it sounds the way out is probably through your up bringing. Come to terms with your identity within your religious framework, that's what really helped me. I don't think it's possible to be rid of whatever is in your conscience, shit that happens to you when you are young has life long consequences psychologically. It's better to understand why it is making you feel shame and self-hate. In particular Jordan Peterson's lectures on YouTube really helped me.
>>8850779
I like this
Become muslim
its ok
u can still be happy
>>8850672
Tbhon same
>>8850675
I am and actually that seems much easier than working hard on passing and less stressful and so on.
Kenny Mcdonald from ashland massachusetts put his cigarette out on his minor girlfriend because he found out she used to date a transman. how are people like him able to walk free in USA 2017?
if true this is disgusting
>>8850574
sadly its true, The girl is very sweet; doesn't deserve this treatment
>>8850552
I made a quick google search and even if you're not lying, this looks like just another lazy attempt to get people to harrass this guy. Not your personal army etc. I heard tumblr are really into harrassing potentially innocent people, maybe you should ask them.
I had a few at a young age, don't remember which came first but
>remember being in a hot tub outdoors completely naked with my friends when i was in middle school and feeling kind of warm or excited
>got into a naked wrestling fight with some other boys in the changing rooms during swim class
>my older sister's boyfriend showed me some straight porn, and we started watching straight porn together and masturbating together, he taught me how to masturbate and even did it for me once
I didn't know I was gay at the time, but looking back, those moments were definitely the start of it, I should have noticed something was wrong
>>8850533
>my older sister's boyfriend showed me some straight porn, and we started watching straight porn together and masturbating together, he taught me how to masturbate and even did it for me once
That must have been fun
>>8850533
I was 14 at the time. Strict Catholic family, no discussion of sex and I had just discovered masturbation. Long time ago so pre-internet.
Just started high school and made friends with another boy. Hung around each other at school a lot and one day he asked if I wanted to go over to his house after school that coming Friday. Agreed and took the bus to his place.
We went up to his room, put on some music and asked if I ever smoked pot. I never had so he said I should try it. We climbed out on his roof and smoked. Felt pretty good.
We climbed back through the window and he grabbed a porn tape he had and put it on. I had never seen porn before (except for some Playboy mags) and was fascinated by the whole thing.
Eventually he said he was going to jerk off and I could do the same. We sat next to each other on the floor and started stroking ourselves until he suggested we stroke each other. I had never done anything like this and knew it was "wrong" (yay Catholic education) but was buzzed so grabbed his cock and started jerking.
Wasn't until too long that he leaned over and took my cock into his mouth. It felt great and he seemed to enjoy it. He then asked if I'd do him and I did. We both ended up cumming in each other's mouth.
When it was close to the time for me to head home he asked if I'd stay the night. He lived in a tough neighborhood and we used that excuse for me to stay over. We ate dinner and went back to his room and had sex pretty much all night.
>>8850533
>something was wrong
Being gay isn't wrong if you are gay. Only thing wrong here is your repression.
does anyone wanna be my friend im so lonely and bored and need someone to talk/vent to
also im bi
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you have to go back
I would if u were a cute, white boy.
Hey /tttt/, I need you to share some personnal experience.
I'm in my last year of high school and about to get on HRT (MtF, DIY).
The thing is, in all modesty, I'm really good at maths, and today I'm thinking about pushing this gift as far as I can after I graduate. I have no problem with not being able to do this if I get on HRT, but I want to know this before so I can rethink about what I do after I graduate.
I remember there was a thread with trannies exchanging about how going on HRT altered their abilities in fighting and driving games it was interesting but not exactly what I was looking for.
If you have noticed any changes in your intelligence while you were taking HRT please share your experience, it could be very interesting.
Thanks by advance, lots of <3
>>8850466
Transition has no long-term proven benefits.
Don't trap yourself.
STOP FAPPING, START LIVING!
In regards to mental effects of HRT, I can't help you there as I don't take it - but the safest bet is not to trap yourself.
There's also that SC2 pro player, and she seems to be doing fine. I doubt it would affect intelligence too dramatically, as you still have a male brain.
>>8850474
I don't care anout long-term proven benefits and I haven't fapped in a while, I'm taking that decision with full information and responsibility, but thanks for your concern.
The SC2 player doing fine is very reassuring, thanks
>>8850478
You're welcome. Best of luck in finding the answers, I'd be quite interested in this one myself!
Appreciate being informed and you being respectful, by the way.
I hate being transgender. I wish I wasn't. It's going to be expensive and nobody will treat me like a person any more, but if i don't I'm just going end up an hero or so depressed I'll wish I had the guts to be.
Well yeah, nobody in their right minds likes being trans.
Best outcome? You spend tens of thousands of dollars for people to do as much as see you as actually being a woman/man, and the people you choose to trust with that information accept you as who you are.
Or, in other words, you get to square 1 that the vast majority of cis people start at.
But like, I'd still rather be a trans woman than be a guy.
>>8850172
yeah, thats about were im at right now and i hate it. i just want to be comfortable with what i am but after years of regressing and telling my self its fine it just doesn't work. so im going to bite the bullet and start hrt. i have a job now so i can so nothing is really stopping me outright any more.
>>8850177
That's good to hear, anon.
I think you'll find that as time goes on you'll become more accepting of who you are, and you'll start to see your imperfections as imperfections, rather than things that make you who you are.
Like, you'll always be on the taller side for girls, but you'll probably come to accept it, maybe even like it.
Also, the pic in the OP is really cute and relatable. Who's the author of it?
How do you deal with feeling like a piece of your sexual identity is unfulfilled or missing? Like if you're gay and feel disconnected from other gays. For me since I'm trans part of it is not having a vagina...things downstairs seem strange and unfitting, at odds with the person I picture in my head, and I feel trapped. I'm not super satisfied with the state of SRS so I don't think it can ever be changed. I feel like a broken person.
I coped with it by getting SRS.
I knew that it wouldn't be a cis vagina or whatever, but I'd read enough reviews from other people to know that once things fully heal, it's actually pretty dang good.
For me, something that was decently close to a vagina was leagues ahead a dick
I have trans friends who didn't get HRT, some for the same reasons as you, and I know that they deal with it by managing to accept that they can be girls and still have dicks. I don't know how strong their genital dysphoria was to begin with, though.
>>8850266
The things stopping me are the expense, the recovery time, the potential for loss of orgasmic function, and most of all dilating for life
>>8850330
Expense was something I just swallowed like a bad pill. I lowered my living expenses enough that I could save money for SRS.
Recovery time wasn't great, but it honestly wasn't awful. It was a few weeks of not really being able to do anything, at the... third? fourth? week or so I was able to start moving around again.
For orgasmic function, the rate isn't huge for chances of that happening iirc, especially if you actually go to a good surgeon, but yeah it is a risk. For me, it was a clear balance in favor of surgery- my birth junk caused me too much mental pain for the physical pleasure of an orgasm to be worth it. Luckily, I kept my ability to orgasm.
Dilating is pretty meh, no two ways around it. Right now I've got a girlfriend, so she likes to put on a strapon and fuck me enough that I don't have to actually dilate anyways.
I do get that it's not for everyone though, but for me personally I found that things were either over-hyped in terms of negativity or were simply a trade off I was willing to make.
"Yer a wizard Dech" edition
Discussion topics:
> COME BACK BigGuy!
> /acegen/ lives in death
>What is asexuality?
The lack of the urge to merge
>Am I asexual?
Maybe. Do you find the concept of sex uninteresting? Did you think that a sex drive was something that would develop later, only to discover that it never did? Did you prefer to work on the affections of your pokemon than the affections of your senpai? If so, then you probably are!
>Where can I find my qt3.14 ace bf/gf?
YOU CAN'T, YOU CUNTS.
>Do you guys masturbate?
Orgasms feel good, regardless of if they happen through your own actions or with a willing partner.
>I want to learn more/still don't get it
Ask a question here. If you've been judged as not being combative and are prolly willing to learn, then we'll answer it
Our Discord: https://discord.gg/WqcpsU8
asexuals are not lgbt.
sage.
>>8849939
Can you explain your logic?
>>8849929
Oh, my thread wasn't good enough for you, Dech? I see how it is.
>"you're born gay"
Explain how the internet turned me into a fag, then
>>8849732
Genetic Evidence of Homosexuality:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/06/04/the-science-of-sexuality-how-our-genes-make-us-gay-or-straight/
http://archive.is/y64OH
https://www.advocate.com/health/2015/10/09/study-dna-identical-twins-can-reveal-whos-gay
http://archive.is/GuptB
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/17/science/gay-men-in-twin-study.html
http://archive.is/PSmzQ
https://www.christiantoday.com/article/research.points.to.genetic.element.in.homosexuality/35856.htm
Straight males carry gay genes:
http://chaladze.com/files/publications/Chaladze2016ASB.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xq28
Fecundity increases in female relatives of male homosexuals:
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0051088
https://www.livescience.com/2623-gays-dont-extinct.html
http://archive.is/32sQz
Scientists find DNA differences between gay men and their straight twin brothers:
http://archive.is/g3lal
http://www.nature.com/news/epigenetic-tags-linked-to-homosexuality-in-men-1.18530
http://www.tim-taylor.com/papers/twin_studies/studies.html
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/identical-twins-genes-are-not-identical/
http://archive.is/MALR3
http://www.hawaii.edu/PCSS/biblio/articles/1961to1999/1993-homosexual-orientation-in-twins.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xq28
Female relatives of gay men have 1.3x as many children:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1743-6109.2012.02785.x/abstract
Androgen receptor gene linked to XQ28
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAGEA11
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/11/study-gay-brothers-may-confirm-x-chromosome-link-homosexuality
http://archive.is/E3my1
>>8849732
Epigenetics
That's all you need. It's why birth control causes autism
>>8849757
So you're the fag flag larper on /pol/...
First of all, I'm currently 20 (mtf), and I won't have the financial ability to start hrt before I'm 25 (can't get hormones in my home state).
I've known I was trans since age 13, I basically knew everything about mtf transitions by the time I was starting puberty, but I live in a LGBT-phobic family and state, so my transition would involve me finishing my college degree and getting a job in a different state which has doctors that can provide actual care for me.
I'm already 6'4, with huge shoulders (it's not muscle, I can feel my shoulder bones and I don't do any weight training), and thin hips.
With all these factors, and my deep male voice it seems very likely to me that transitioning is a lost effort on me...
All these steps seem exceedingly difficult to carry out in reality:
>Hopefully getting to move and getting hormones by 25, then doing years of hormones while HOPING that I react well to them and develop breast tissue and get good fat redistribution.
>Hopefully succeeding at getting my voice and mannerisms to an acceptable place.
>Hopefully having the money to absorb years of medical costs for hormones, endocrinologist visits, psych evaluations, electrolysis, laser hair removal, FFS (which I most definitely need to present female successfully), and the list of expenses just goes on.
>Doing all those things, while also keeping my career and social life in tact seems almost insurmountable.
Going through everything involved in transition, both financially and emotionally, and getting bad results after years of effort seems like a risk that's just a bit too big to take.
I feel it might be best for me to just choose to live with the knowledge that I'll never transition, and try to use the money not spent to make it easier to cope mentally. Maybe I'll still get body hair removal so I feel a little better and try to slowly live my life presenting male while trying to not kill myself both literally, and emotionally.
Any opinions?
>>8849699
selfmed now and stay in boymode. don't wait till you are 25 to start hormones or you will regret it the rest of your life.
>>8849839
this
do your thing gurl. patience is a virtue.