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RmDebArc_5 piefed.zip RmDebArc_5@piefed.zip
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Post: "saw this truscum make a very angry post like "YOU CANT TRADE AND COLLECT GENDER IDENTITIES LIKE POKEMON CARDS" and i think thats a quitter mindset. anyone want to trade genders with me". Reply: "I'll trade you a 'skirt with pockets' and three 'cosmic horrors but in a sexy way' if you give me 2 'blood stained Victorian goth' and a '6'5 intimidating lesbian'"
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indomara lemmy.world indomara@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-12
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Oooh, I want the skirt with pockets too!

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๐Ÿ‰ DrRedOctopus ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿ‰ lemmy.world IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-06-29
#3 · Quote Reply

Oooh, I want the skirt with pockets too!

get one!!! got a skirt with pokets and I love it. wear it around town because it's so comfortable. now I want more skirts. not even queer or gender, am just a guy who can't go back to pants.

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MalReynolds slrpnk.net MalReynolds@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2023-06-25
#4 · (edited) Quote Reply

get one!!! got a skirt with pokets and I love it. wear it around town because it's so comfortable. now I want more skirts. not even queer or gender, am just a guy who can't go back to pants.

If you need to, say it's a modern kilt or that you're ancient Greek (or Sumerian or Egyptian or Henry VIII ffs). I make sarongs with a pocket, great for summer.

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๐Ÿ‰ DrRedOctopus ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿ‰ lemmy.world IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-06-29
#5 · Quote Reply

If you need to, say it's a modern kilt or that you're ancient Greek (or Sumerian or Egyptian or Henry VIII ffs). I make sarongs with a pocket, great for summer.

it did begin with a kilt. now I need more

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MalReynolds slrpnk.net MalReynolds@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2023-06-25
#6 · Quote Reply

it did begin with a kilt. now I need more

Yah, need to get myself a utility kilt :)

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๐Ÿ‰ DrRedOctopus ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿ‰ lemmy.world IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-06-29
#7 · Quote Reply

Yah, need to get myself a utility kilt :)

everyone needs one. and if its still cold over there, then also get thermal tights

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da_cow (she/her) feddit.org cows_are_underrated@feddit.org
Joined: 2024-06-22
#8 · Quote Reply

everyone needs one. and if its still cold over there, then also get thermal tights

Thermal leggings were one of the best investments I ever did. Finally can I start wearing skirts while its still quite cold outside.

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ะฐะปัะฐะฐะฐั [she/her] lemmy.dbzer0.com alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2023-06-17
#9 · (edited) Quote Reply

The truscum position is literally just that you need to have gender dysphoria to be trans, no?

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RmDebArc_5 piefed.zip RmDebArc_5@piefed.zip
Joined: 2025-06-23
#10 · Quote Reply

The truscum position is literally just that you need to have gender dysphoria to be trans, no?

To my knowledge that is exactly the point

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ShinkanTrain lemmy.ml ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2024-06-13
#11 · (edited) Quote Reply

Anyone got a holographic blue hair and leather jacket they're willing to trade? I have a spare Gus from Breaking Bad

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ะฐะปัะฐะฐะฐั [she/her] lemmy.dbzer0.com alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2023-06-17
#12 · Quote Reply

To my knowledge that is exactly the point

Is that not a common (sense) position?

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ShinkanTrain lemmy.ml ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2024-06-13
#13 · (edited) Quote Reply

Is that not a common (sense) position?

Until you take a step back and realize that excludes a lot of people's experiences. For one, it's very binary-centric.

Another way to look at it is that you don't need gender dysphoria to experience gender euphoria.

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Tonuka feddit.org Tonuka@feddit.org
Joined: 2025-04-07
#14 · Quote Reply

Is that not a common (sense) position?

no. There's history to the term that's not captured by simply giving its "definition" (though different people would define it differently, so even that is hard).

Think of it like the self-diagnosis discourse. Some autistic people never get diagnosed, because you know, there's no need if your symptoms are obvious. Some people are annoyed by people who they perceive to be "faking" autism, so they take the extreme position that only diagnosed people are allowed to call themselves autistic.

For Truscum, this often translates into "you can't be trans if your dysphoria wasn't confirmed by a doctor" (not a possibility for most). Or more extreme: "You can't be trans if you do not have significant enough trauma from feeling misplaced in society, otherwise you could just be faking it".

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