Other trans-related comms

[floit63]

Does anyone happen to know of other trans-related communities on DW? I'd like to keep up a running list so that everyone can find the place they feel most comfortable. Communities for transwomen would be particularly helpful as I don't have the same kind of access to women's spaces that I do men's.

So far I've got:
trans (thank you aunty_sarah)
tguk (thanks to tornir)
queer_rage (trans-friendly, allows crossposts. Thanks to amadi)
polygender
ftm
ftm_adult
effeminate_ftm
androgynes
postqueer (which isn't 100% trans so I'm unsure about including it)
late_blooming_trans (thanks to kayden)

From shemale
mtf
partners_of_tg
tranny_rage
trans_latinao

Comments

[auntysarah]

Also, trans, brought to you by some of the same people as transgender, which has a complimentary ethos to transgender.

[floit63]

Excellent! I will add you to the list =)

[floit63]

That was so not the icon I was going for. Wonder when DW will implement an edit comment option...

[tornir]

There's tguk for any UK based folk out there.

[floit63]

Cheers!

[tornir]

They already have it, but like LJ, it's a paid account only feature. :(

[floit63]

Oh damn. It'll have to wait until my LJ expires then.

[shemale]

There's also mtf, partners_of_tg, tranny_rage, and trans_latinao

[floit63]

Thank you

[amadi]

There's also now queer_rage where crossposts with tranny_rage will be more than welcome (or original rages, of course) and which will absolutely be run under the "this isn't French, the T in LGBT isn't silent" ethos, because, well, I'm running it, and that's my perspective.

[floit63]

Awesome. Out of curiosity, is queer_rage also poly friendly?

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[amadi]

I've joined now. My default was subscribing to everything first. : )

Poly friendly, yes, generally speaking. If someone's who is poly but who is only involved in hetero pairings will ultimately feel like it's a space where their poly-specific ragings will fit in will remain to be seen. I'm not the queer police, and I can't determine for anyone else if they "should" consider themselves queer, you know? But at the same time, my sense is that being straight and poly probably wouldn't "count" to most non-straight queers. I could be wrong about that, though. In any case, I won't be putting a limit there, one way or another, at least not at this point.

[floit63]

Haha, I'm one of the people who thinks having more than one opposite sex/gender partner's doesn't make a person queer so that's not the issue. More that my queer-rages will occasionally also include a poly vibe and sometimes that gets a bit messy. The whole "you're making us nice, monogamous people look bad" thing.

[amadi]

Oh, no, no worries there!

[floit63]

Yay!

[kayden]

I've started a community called late_blooming_trans for those of us who didn't realize we were trans until we were adults.

[floit63]

Cheers!