post stolen from someone who didn't want to be credited:
It's okay to be trans just because you want to be. Just waking up one morning and thinking "you know what? I'd really enjoy being a girl" and then becoming a girl? power move. Deciding that you'd rather not be a man or woman, or that you'd like to try out a different gender? Hell yeah! Deciding that being a man might be more your style? Nice!
You can feel you didn't make a choice too, and you are still just as much the gender that you want to be.
Never been a fan of the idea that we should be accepted only because we can't help who we are, we should be able to explore and be treated respectfully even if we do choose.
Question for a subset of plural folk,
Question for those of you who only ever have one personality fronting (iirc, median systems): Do you, the one out front, and any other personalities floating around in your head have a shared knowledge pool or do y'all each know things the other(s) doesn't? e.g. Jade and I fall into the former category. She doesn't know anything I don't. But I'm curious if that's different for anyone else.
(Feel free to reply with specifics!)
Selfie (Eye Contact)
Those of us who spent a lot of time on LiveJournal enjoyed the friends group access levels and the "lj-cut," a CW or preview or handy divider.
But the one I really miss is the mood indicator. Especially since we've adopted the often problematic "boost" concept with no granularity, people lose context. Know at a glance when someone is writing while upset, without needing to know their whole story to understand why. Declaring mood added flavor and prevented accidental cruelty in an elegant way.
20s | trans girl | useless lesbian | retro game and tech enthusiast | cat witch
plural/median system along with neilyn and unit 4-7L/Iris (see reply to pinned intro)
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