Trans Day of Visibility (belated) · 7:44pm Apr 1st, 2022
EDIT: This post, despite its timing, is NOT an April Fool's post. I actually wrote this yesterday and forgot to hit the final button to publish it.
Today is Trans Day of Visibility, and all I can think of is how many of my brony friends from 2011 eventually came out as trans - how liking My Little Pony was a window into a new world for a lot of young people - the first time many of them questioned gender norms at all.
Horse Famous musicians like Forest Rain, and Odyssey Eurobeat. [I mention them specifically because they have both come out on their You Tube channels, and continue to be public figures, thus I am confident in their consent].
I think a lot of people gravitated to MLP as a safe place to explore femininity, and that's a beautiful thing. Equestria is a welcoming place for everyone.
It's been an amazing 11 years, and I'm so happy for everypony who found themselves in some way through MLP, and for those who found the confidence to be visible. That long list now includes well...me.
I'm non-binary/genderqueer.
I don't want to center myself too much in a conversation about the community, but it also does no good to celebrate the importance of trans visibility while myself remaining invisible. So, there it is.
Discuss.
-Sprocket
*Hugs*
I’m proud and happy for you, Sprocket and glad that you feel comfortable in our community. Thank you for trusting us. Remember you are appreciated and loved, just as you have been.
At this point, Fimfic is basically a LGBT social media site.
Which is awesome! Haha.
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So proud of you Sprocket, glad to be your friend and to have this opportunity to be in the world with you, even as messed up as it can be. Love and pride forever!
And me; I've started slowly coming out over the past week or so, unrelated to the Trans Day of Visibility since I didn't actually know about it ahead of time. Well. I've actually had "enby-slash-uncertain-slash-confused-slash-why-is-gender-so-difficult" on my userpage for a while (should probably get around to updating that now), but that wasn't, in my own self-conception, you know, trans. Somehow. See "difficult" above, I suppose. But yeah, the first person I told about my change in self-conception (now as trans with a current best guess of feminine-leaning nonbinary; I've also been on HRT for over four weeks now, and it seems to be going well) was indeed someone I met through the fandom, one of many ways the fandom contributed to this, and she connected me with some more people. This comment is probably the first I can really be said to be coming out publicly, though, even if it's not very public, so... thanks? :)
...Still nervous saying any of this so publicly. Despite this having been building up for years (not like I started HRT on a wild whim), part of me still says that any day now despite all the still-mounting evidence I'll realize that I'm actually cis and this will be very embarrassing, so I should stay quiet. But, uh. Yeah.
...Hopefully this isn't too awkward? Not something I want to make a big deal about, but also kind of an important personal thing, so...
Well, anyway, uh, welcome out, yourself? Is that a good phrase for this?
And back on more familiar ground, thank you as usual, though in an extra way here, for sharing your thoughts and whatnot!
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I'm honored that you chose here, of all places, to come out.
You are valid!
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Well, I mean, it seemed a good opportunity you'd provided. And there are still a bunch of people I haven't told, and even if this is technically public I'm not sure how many people are actually going to see it...
...But, uh, yeah, I suppose whatever the particulars, this did indeed feel like a good place and time. So thanks. :)
Thank you, and so are you! :)
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Oh, sorry about this, but I realized a few moments ago that I should issue a correction: technically, I remembered, this was not the first public place I mentioned it, as it previously happened to be a bit relevant in a comment thread on another website. That still doesn't, even now I've remembered it, feel the same, though, I think because, even though I also use the name Reese there and have commented there before, I don't have anywhere near the presence or interconnection there I do here. So over there, I came out, but the "I" as far as people there would see would at most connected to a scant few other comments buried in the archives of that or a related blog. Here, I'm Reese, with comments all over the site, my own blog posts, a sort-of story, known to a variety of people, some of whom I've met in person at conventions, IIRC a member of my RPG group, which includes some IRL friends and some ties to even more of my life, follows me here (even if they're probably not going to see my comments here here)... coming out here felt like coming out, even if in this comment section in a somewhat low-key way, to a community I'm a known and active member of, with a lot more interconnection with my life as a whole, while over there, maybe a few people would recognize me as someone who's commented before, but it feels much more anonymous to me. Still, technically, my comment there was before my comment here, so I thought, given how you'd responded, that a correction and apology were particularly in order. You have my apologies for this error -- though I can also say that I think if I had remembered the prior thing when making my comment here, it probably just would have changed the wording a bit, with, at least from my perspective, not much in the way of diminished import.