The Transgender Dictionary

Reasons

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

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Introduction: Origins of This Dictionary

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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 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. Engaging with A.I. chatbots will make your mental health and ability to interact with other people worse.

Companies who use generative A.I. in place of real actors and creativity are disgusting. If you cannot be bothered to put in the effort to advertise or create something, why should anyone engage in your product.

Students who use generative A.I., so-called A.I. search engines, chatbots, etc. are lazy. You are not learning anything. You are not bettering yourself. You are not benefiting from doing this.

Anyone using chatbots in place of attempting to talk to genuine human beings is simply a sad sight to see. However, I must acknowledge that these things are designed to be addictive and should be treated as such. It is poison for your brain.

A.I. generated "art" is not art. Do not treat it as such. If you are genuinely creative and have something to contribute, go do it. I would much rather look at "bad" art that was created by a person than an artificially generated image that says nothing and means nothing because it was conjured up via scraps of talent stolen from genuine artists.

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

Modern day generative A.I. does not posess any intelligence. They are designed to rob their users of intelligence. They are designed to make people lazier and stupider and stop thinking too hard about things.

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My Stance on Scrolling

On the one hand, pretty much the entire internet is built around scrolling. Even The Transgender Dictionary can be primarily navigated via scrolling (though I do try to break it up a bit with clickable/tapable hyperlinks here and there). Everyone scrolls these days in some way or another, and there are endless opportunities to do it.

Social media traps people into a strange, hypnotic state where you stare at the screen, endlessly scrolling with minimal enjoyment.

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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.

  38. The world is becoming increasingly hostile to trans people for absolutely no reason. The same common arguments based in misinformation keep being repeated over and over as poor excuses to harm other people. It's horrible. Something needs to change. There needs to be more readily accessible information for basic concepts that keep getting mangled by bigots.

  39. To try and convince my great aunt that being transgender is not a bad thing and that it should be respected as a well-documented concept with no particular morality attached.

  40. Trying to make a website that is as accessible and easy to navigate as I can.

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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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This whole website was made by one guy. Xe maintains this website in his spare time. If you'd like to help him (and by him I mean me) out, there are various ways to do that below!!!

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