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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • There’s a lot of things wrapped up in “trans”; lots of identities fall under trans as a term, but don’t necessarily relate to one another. I’m a trans woman, while my experience relates in some ways to transmascs and to agender or enby folk, in many ways it does not. This kind of subdivision is, I think, less evident for the L or the G in LGBTQ+ because they’re more specific things.

    Along with that, Reddit is (was) one of those places where it was possible to build a supportive community of anonymous individuals, somewhere it’s safe to be yourself without putting your real identity against that presentation. For a lot of us, it was the first place we were truly us, and it really sucks to see how it’s being torn apart right now. A bigger concern especially now, while things are as batshit insane for trans kids as they are, is that these communities will now be harder to access even if they do stick around after the 30th - so where do the people who don’t have the safety or freedom in their offline lives to express themselves and work through their identity go then?