@MissScarletInTheBallroom
I can’t speak for other trans people, but for me. When I was transitioning, it was a private and personal thing. I told people what they needed to know when they needed to know it and I just went about my life, studying, working, and doing all the normal life things.
i was 18. At the time a lot of the trans people I met were a lot older than me, and since coming out they had made being trans their whole identity. They resented that I was younger and would get to live in a way they had not when they were younger. They resented further that I didn’t only have trans friends, only go to trans events, only talk about trans things.
i did try to get invoked in a few things, there used to be a YouTube channel where transmen shared their transition, and particularly once I had surgery, I felt my experience could be useful. I was 25. I was told they didn’t permit contributions from those under 35. So it ended up being full of people just starting out later in life who had nothing to share except from their regret that they hadn’t done it sooner.
So I stayed out of things
When I moved, I contacted the local trans community hub to be told I wasn’t welcome because I wasn’t ’from Here’ so they didn’t know me (I had moved to another uk city so it wasn’t even a race thing).
The few trans friends I did make who I felt had more to their personality argued with and then blocked me because I didn’t stop loving Harry Potter and I didn’t think JK had done anything offensive, I read her essay and wholeheartedly agree with her.
I will (and do) gladly defend any woman, in any situation.
I will make clear to anyone that what is being done is not being done in my name but voices like mine are often drowned out or shut down.
I’ve no doubt that there are many others like me but most are afraid to speak up because they’ll be rejected from their own community if they do.