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Roko's Predicament as Allegory for Gender Dysphoria

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fantasticalice:
When I was discovering who I was my mental state was in really terrible shape. I had full mpd(3 personalities and clearly split) and it was like being fractured. I also had an unhealthy obsession with the zombie apocalypse. Some part of me believed it would happen and I would become my best self.

It's a little scary. But getting the crimes against my birth fixed was the healthiest obssession that came from it. I was terrified about a world where medical science had collapsed and I would be stuck with what they did to a baby and never feeling ownership of my own body.

I love stories with trans and gender atypical folk in apocalypse tales and superhero stuff.

But I never want to read a story about someone who defines themselves as pre-op trapped in the apocalypse. I once saw my visit to Thailand as proof the world was not against me. Due to being intersexed(although I was lied to about the Doctor being experienced yikes!) I had unparalleled success and almost wolverine speed healing.

I had started to combine(mpd) mere weeks before I got on a plane but I... relaxed. I had taken control of my body back from the bigoted idiots who took away my ability to be who I was when I was born.

And the apocalypse could happen and I would be ok. But I would love a story of some who is struggling woth a world that no longer has our comforts. Last time I looked for hormones I was given "Your Ovaries are fine" as a firm answer. I have a non existent level of both t and e and a part of me likes that.

But I love the different ways that narrative could exist and expand.

What would be really cool is a story of a transwoman who was on a road trip to the Midwest for a rumour that the city survived. A story all about the journey but the first arc/ending would complete with the Doctor still being alive in a bunker and her being able to get the surgery.

It could be a beautiful exploration of hope, faith, and identity.

If the surgery wasn't the end of the story I would suggest having the star(cause she should be!) have this deep sadness about her that is always there underneath a steely determination. And post feeling her body is right she has a passion for fixing the world and she and her friends find a way to rebuild the world.

I'd also love a story about a bloke on the teans masculine spectrum learning to cope with not the apocalypse in general. Finding he is more accepted as male because most people post apocalypse see in a cis binary. And his struggle with safety and identity.

That would explore the dynamics between passing and our own self identity. I identify as genderqueer and that technically makes me cis as I was born intersexed. But I use nb and female pronouns and always want to be read as female. But I want to be seen as something more.

Being accepted because a person isn't aware of intersexed, trans, and nb identifying folks existing is helpful when there are safety concerns but it's not comfortable.

And part of it is because I often feel very unsafe in situations like that. It's like when I'm assumed to be white and hear really nasty anti-Semitism from someone and have to weigh my safety on whether I stand up for my people, stay quiet, or stand up for my people AND myself.

Sadly when I hear nasty transphobic rhetoric from people who don't know I am intersexed and identify with my birth non binary sex I will often stay quiet. Because it is scary.

I think the struggle for people who "pass" and for people on the spectrum for whom passing is a goal is not shown very often in media.

Which is surprising. For me, all my minority characteristics I can hide when I am in danger. I am visibly crippled but as a Lesbian Jew who was born intersexed I have to choose when to reveal those things.

I haven't seen anything on passing since Alex Haley's Queen and especially in this messed up world I think it's an important issue.

I might crosspost this to the trans thread but I am often surprised at how little certain narratives show up.

cybersmurf:
You want a story about a trans person in the apocalypse? Go write one yourself, I think you can do it.

AnchovyJovi:

--- Quote from: fantasticalice on 25 Mar 2019, 19:11 ---I might crosspost this to the trans thread but I am often surprised at how little certain narratives show up.

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Fantastic Alice I don't know if your a fan of manga but might I recommend this manga to you for you to read if you haven't seen it already.

https://mangakakalot.com/manga/is_otoko_demo_onna_demo_nai_sei

Is it cold in here?:
Global Moderator Comment Hope the spelling fix to the thread title wasn't too presumptuous of me.

Is it cold in here?:
ZoeB's written about cis people whose mental body maps don't match their bodies and even named the brain areas involved. Apparently it's a horrible condition to live with.

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