The Transgender Dictionary

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Reasons

(also: acknowledgments, excuses, grounds, guises, pretexts, rationales)

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Introduction: Origins of This Dictionary

The Transgender Dictionary originated as a read-only channel on a now-deleted discord server of my own creation. I kept coming across words with meanings that I wanted to keep track of, as well as useful YouTube videos that I didn't want to lose. This alphabetized list started getting pretty detailed as more and more members of the discord server suggested more and more terms.

I tried getting more and more people to join the server to check out this list. These attempts were largely unsuccessful, and it was brought to my attention that having this information locked in a discord server made the information inaccessible to others.

After some contemplation, I made a new version of this "dictionary" that consisted of numerous Google Docs all linked to one another. I was told by someone on Discord that it was bad to force people to use Google Docs to access information. This got me thinking some more.

Using the website builder known as "carrd" I made a new version of The Transgender Dictionary. The problem with carrd is that there is a limit to the number of available assets for a website, even with premium, and I got pretty sick of paying for premium. After that, I remembered that I knew how to do basic coding in HTML, and decided to make a neocities website https://pensarecool.neocities.org/thetransgenderdictionary/homepage.

Then, I realized that it would probably be a good idea to make the website have a custom URL. The current version of this website is not free to keep up. You can support the current version of this website via patreon. Thank you.

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General Information

This page contains miscellaneous information about The Transgender Dictionary and its creator (James). This information comes in the form of various lists, anecdotes, and occasional images.

You may have noticed that the pages of this website are of varying quality. Not all pages are maintained/updated at the same pace. As I have ADHD, I tend to jump around from page to page based on whatever topic catches my interest, what I am thinking about at any given moment, how much free time I have to work on the website, etc.

Ideally, all of the pages will be as detailed, interesting, easy to read, and informative as [insert whatever is the best looking page so far] at some point. What point will that be? Who knows! As previously mentioned, this is a personal projct made by oen person. Was that previously mentioned? Who knows.

To speed things up, consider supporting me and/or sending me messages regarding things on this website that you think that I should prioritize. Whenver I have free time, I go and check those messages to see what I have to work on. This is a fun project for me, and I like to help people, but I am a busy man and do not always have the time for doing intense research.

This is a resource intended to be shared with as many people as possible to help as many people as possible. I always strive to improve the contents of this website. Please point out typos, errors, etc. I really appreciate everyone who has helped me so far. Thank you.

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My Pets

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My stance on generative A.I.

In theory, artificial intelligence is a cool thing. In movies and tv shows, it is great. Generative A.I. and modern day chatbots posess no intelligence. They consist of stolen words and images that have been distorted and twisted into something repulsive.

Companies who use generative A.I. in place of real actors and creativity are disgusting.

Students who use generative A.I., so-called A.I. search engines, chatbots, etc. are lazy.

Anyone using chatbots in place of attempting to talk to genuine human beings is simply a sad sight to see.

People who claim to be artists while toting around A.I. slop do not know what art is. The use A.I. has in art is so severely limited, that 99% of the time, if someone with A.I. images claims to know what art is, they are lying.

If you feed any part of The Transgender Dictionary into any sort of A.I. slop machine, I have no respect for you.

Modern day generative A.I. does not posess any intelligence. They are designed to rob their users of intelligence.

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List of Reasons

This is a list of reasons why I decided to make this website. These list of reasons are not in any particular order, but are numbered to keep track of the total number of reasons. This list will be updated over time, much as will be the rest of this website. Edits can be seen on internet archive.

  1. To keep track of all these new acronyms that people keep coming up with.

  2. To compile my research.

  3. To feel important.

  4. To keep track of important and/or interesting links that I come across.

  5. To be able to provide specific links to people during conversations to explain something that I have had to explain to someone more than one time in similar, repetitive conversations.

  6. To be more efficient in the comments on r/FTM.

  7. To encourage cisgender people to read up and learn about transgender topics in a simple, easy-to-digest way that does not require those cisgender people to ask a million invasive questions to random transgender people who probably don't even have the answers to half of those questions, because obviously, not every transgender person has this much knowledge on this many different topics (I suppose at this point, you could consider me to be a statistical outlier).

  8. To bring awareness of more obscure transgender topics.

  9. To create as comprehensive and interesting of a resource that I would have wanted to stumble across when I was a scared child who didn't know what was wrong with me and wanted to desperately find out what the right words were to describe my experiences were.

  10. To force myself to research topics relating to transgender women that I would not have previously researched.

  11. To make a list of every dead trans person that I learn about, to make sure that I never forget their names.

  12. To bring awareness to transgender people.

  13. To promote other useful resources to those who need them, and encourage everyone to research things as much as possible before forming conclusions.

  14. To make as much information as possible be easily accessible, even if a page isn't entierly done yet, and I still need to do more research (this way, at least someone who doesn't know anything can know a little bit, and be aware that something even exists before the page is as in-depth as possible.

  15. I wanted to make a brightly colored website.

  16. So that I can feel like I've done soemthing useful.

  17. To preserve information that may be lost.

  18. To help out anyone trying to figure out where to start when it comes to learning more about the wonder that is the transgender community.

  19. I made this website because I am autistic and really like dictionaries.

  20. To unite the community to focus on being productive and helping one another.

  21. As an excuse to learn more about topics that I would not have otherwise had a personal reason to learn about.

  22. To make a table including the pronoun set it/its, because whenever I tell people that my pronouns are it/its, they get confused and think that this pronoun set is actually "it/it's" which is incorrect.

  23. To make a table including the pronoun set xe/xem, because it is easier than constantly having to explain how those pronouns are used.

  24. I also use he/him pronouns.

  25. I am also genderqueer.

  26. To be able to help out any scared or confused trans kids who feel like they are alone.

  27. To encourage anyone who is scared of self-discovery to become who they were always meant to be and live as their true selves.

  28. To provide a resource for those who are tempted to say "its not my job to educate you." You are correct that it is not your job to educate others, but that's unhelpful for clueless people with questions.

  29. To provided basic definitions for when they are needed during petty discourse and similar arguments.

  30. People are always making list of trans-related resources on social media and such. I figured that putting them all in one place would make things easier.

  31. Seriously though, there are so many useful lists of trans-related resources out there that end up lost of time because they are on some random social media website or whatever. I want to put as many of those in one place to be useful to whoever needs them.

  32. To maybe make a bit of extra money through donations. (I mean, considering how much time I have spent on this website, I feel like I deserve it.)

  33. To help dispel common misconceptions regarding transgender people.

  34. To help attempt to standardize some of the language used in the transgender community.

  35. To bring awareness to more obscure terminology.

  36. To try and make some money (scroll down to ways you can support).

  37. To try and encourage people to read from more than one source on the same topic. Just, in general.

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Photo of Motorbike aka "Mike" for Short (Snake)

Image Description: An adult normal morph ball python is curled around a transgender man sitting cross-legged on a carpeted floor. The snake is black and brown with a white underbelly, and is looking at the camera. A 40gallon tank can be seen in the background. Please note that Motorbike has a different enclosure that is larger.

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Photo of Vespa Scooter aka "Scoots" for Short (Snake)

Image Description: A sub-adult hypo/ghost morph ball python taking a sip of water out of a 3D printed red water dish. The snake is grey with yellow patterns. In front of him, there is some live moss. Behind him, his body emerges from a grey hide, and there is a cork bark round in the background.

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Ancestry

Below is my Ancestry DNA results. Do not question me on matters regarding race. I will not discuss them. I will allow those who are more qualified to speak on such topics to do so. I will discuss gender and sexuality related topics (mostly gender, its more interesting to me), but I will not discuss racial issues. I will, however, link other perspectives on topics wherever relevant.

Edit: Got a notification that apparently my results are now more specific?

https://www.bbb.org/us/ut/lehi/profile/genealogy/ancestrycom-1166-2003190

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Why I Chose Not To Have Nipples

On February 7, 2022, I had a double incision mastectomy without nipple grafts. This means that I do not have nipples or breasts. Below is a list of miscellaneous reasons why I chose this. These reasons are not ranked in any particular order, simply in whatever order I can recall said reasons. These reasons are not all of the same level of personal importance.

  1. More aerodynamic.

  2. Didn't like them anyway.

  3. More space for tattoos (if I ever manage to afford it). While I currently have no tattoos, I have several ideas for tattoos in the chest area. Potentially buttons where the nipples "should" be. Maybe googly eyes. Or something.

  4. Analyzing people's reactions.

  5. To test censorship. Typically, nipples are what get censored on things such as social media. If I have none, what is there to be offended by?

  6. #FreeTheNipple

  7. It looks cool.

  8. Faster healing time after surgery (was not deliberate but found this out after surgery).

  9. Look like an anime boy lol.

  10. Trauma.

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These links are not affiliated with The Transgender Dictionary, however, I do think that they are useful and that you should consider checking them out.

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See also the pages for: coming out, homepage, double incision.

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