{"id":93762,"date":"2016-07-06T09:10:42","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T09:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/07\/06\/captainjerkface-profeminist-ph4u57-gender\/"},"modified":"2018-09-01T18:47:10","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T18:47:10","slug":"captainjerkface-profeminist-ph4u57-gender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/07\/06\/captainjerkface-profeminist-ph4u57-gender\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-93762 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/07\/06\/captainjerkface-profeminist-ph4u57-gender\/attachment\/93763\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/tumblr_nhlgcqtwFN1tl7ih0o1_640-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/tumblr_nhlgcqtwFN1tl7ih0o1_640-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/tumblr_nhlgcqtwFN1tl7ih0o1_640-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/captainjerkface.tumblr.com\/post\/117379851143\" target=\"_blank\">captainjerkface<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/profeminist.tumblr.com\/post\/107478597512\" target=\"_blank\">profeminist<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/ph4u57.tumblr.com\/post\/106993643779\" target=\"_blank\">ph4u57<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Gender euphoria is a concept that was made to be the opposite of gender dysphoria and describe the strong feeling of happiness that trans people experience when they\u2019re being treated as their true gender. For some people, this feeling can be an indicator of being trans.<\/p>\n<p>Please reblog to support the use of this term!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><b>PROMOTE GENDER EUPHORIA<\/b><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>OKAY BUT FOR REAL, THIS IS INCREDIBLE. This is my first time coming across this term and I cannot even begin to explain how happy this makes me. Gender euphoria fits my experience so much better than gender dysphoria, a term I came across CONSTANTLY when trying to figure out who I was.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Throughout my life, I never had any noticeable dysphoria. I didn\u2019t feel I was stuck in the wrong body and I wasn\u2019t terribly self conscious about my chest. It wasn\u2019t until I was in a group webcam chat that I even began to consider I might be trans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Someone \u201cmistook\u201d me for a boy\u2026and they were fairly confident about it too. Others in the chat corrected them, but it wasn\u2019t until I told them myself, \u2018Oh, yeah, I\u2019m a girl.\u2019 that they accepted it. But the thing that clicked in that moment was this alien feeling of absolute JOY being recognized as a boy. It honestly took me off guard. The further I went along in life, the more I yearned for and sought out retail workers that would call me sir and comments from my brother saying I look like a guy in photos. One time I was sick and someone said my voice was deep enough to be a guy\u2019s, and suddenly, I could not stop talking. Those little things just made me so <i>happy<\/i>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But for the longest time I doubted myself, and one of the reasons was because of the term \u2018gender dysphoria\u2019. From everything I was reading online, it seemed to me that gender dysphoria was the ONLY way you could be trans. And that screwed me over for a long time. I doubted myself a lot and even started to hate myself a little bit because I could\u2019t let the idea of myself being trans go. (it also didn\u2019t help that I was genderfluid, with an <i>occasional<\/i> lean towards being female, but that\u2019s a whole \u2018nother confusing addition to the pile of self doubt.) I eventually said screw it, I\u2019ve had these feelings for long enough and strong enough, but it wasn\u2019t a fun process getting to this point.<\/p>\n<p>I guess what I\u2019m trying to say with this incredibly condensed story of my life, is that gender <b>EUPHORIA<\/b> should be just as widespread as gender DYSPHORIA. It would help so many people like myself who were so confused for so long.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>captainjerkface: profeminist: ph4u57: Gender euphoria is a concept that was made to be the opposite of gender dysphoria and describe the strong feeling of happiness that trans people experience when they\u2019re being treated as their true gender. For some people, this feeling can be an indicator of being trans. Please reblog to support the use &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/07\/06\/captainjerkface-profeminist-ph4u57-gender\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[585,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93762"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93764,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93762\/revisions\/93764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}