I recently started transitioning and it was pretty overwhelming. As to my knowledge (please let me know if I am wrong) there are few widespread studies about the practical experience of transitioning (including but not exclusive to information about hrt). Right now, for myself, some of the most valuable documentation on what to do is on reddit, specifically discussions in the comments.

Because of this I am proposing a community just for documenting and asking questions about the actual processing of transitioning. I have never made or moderated a community (and would greatly prefer if someone that knows how to do so does as I am more interested helping documentation), as I see the need for having knowledge about transitioning on an open platform.

Here is the community: !TransitionQuestions@lemmy.blahaj.zone

I would appreciate any thoughts about this and/or help to get such a project going. Especially would appreciate if there is already a community for this on lemmy.

  • dandelionEnglish
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    4 days ago

    For what it’s worth, /c/AskTransgender exists for asking questions too, and I suspect transition questions are welcome here in /c/Trans as well as places like /c/mtf. My point is that you don’t have to take on creating and moderating a community to help build a knowledge base here in Lemmy, there are people here willing to help. I suspect a lot of us are sensitive to the reliance on wikis on Reddit, for example.

    I’m happy to try to help answer questions to the best of my ability, I’m fresh into transition myself, less than 2 years into it, and I tend to be the kind of person who has a million questions myself and I spend a lot of time seeking answers 😅

    • kittenzOPEnglish
      6·
      4 days ago

      Thank you! What I was imagining is somewhere to focus on centralizing documentation (not necessarily in exclusion for communities to discuss), maybe have some general q and a posts. This is giving me the idea to maybe have topic posts for people to answer in their free time?

      • dandelionEnglish
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        4 days ago

        Sounds good to me! It would be nice if Lemmy had a “wiki” functionality like Reddit does, I do think evergreen documentation might be harder to organize as threads in a community, unless the community is only locked posts that only the mods can edit.

        I’ve been working on a trans FAQ project like this too, recently: https://trans-faq.github.io/trans-faq

        Would be happy to create a separate page just for trans folks with questions about transitioning. (Actually been hoping to get some content in terms of what questions people have - I’m already forgetting what misconceptions I had starting out and what questions I had.)

        And of course outside of Reddit there are https://genderdysphoria.fyi/en/ and https://transfemscience.org/articles/transfem-intro/

        • kittenzOPEnglish
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          4 days ago

          Yes! I think this is closer to what I would want. Organic questions that are helpful to document and then community answers (maybe even so other projects gets some primary sources that are openly available). Since I am starting now, I had the though that my initial question would be important to document for the reason you mentioned (I will forget them) and making the questions throughout people’s experiences valuable. Are you interested in helping mod/maybe develop this idea?

          • dandelionEnglish
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            4 days ago

            sure! I would at least love to help and work together - I’ve always felt uncomfortable with mod roles just because I don’t feel comfortable assuming authority and I misread social situations, but I don’t think that’s what you intend, so I’m happy to help! ☺️