Ascension
If you hang around in trans spaces you will often hear of the concept of 'ascension' ... This is where a trans person is perceived to have stopped associating with other trans people and in some cases, especially in the past once someone had reached a certain point in their transition, sometimes GCS / referral for GCS, sometimes even before they disengaged from the trans community and attempted to go stealth.
This topic can get somewhat confused when the more, ahem, 'fetishy' end of the 'trans umbrella' is at play... This again is a topic where I run the risk of implying there is a hierarchy of transness or start a battle by saying there is a line in the sand where it crosses from being trans to be being a fetish/kink whatever...
the upshot is there are two things here
1. As people's identities evolve as might their interests and desires, this can be even more marked when someone embarks on medical transition and the effect of medications come into play and their brain stabilises running on the right mix.
2. As you normalise your identity you no longer feel the need to find a safe space to express yourself.
This topic can get somewhat confused when the more, ahem, 'fetishy' end of the 'trans umbrella' is at play... This again is a topic where I run the risk of implying there is a hierarchy of transness or start a battle by saying there is a line in the sand where it crosses from being trans to be being a fetish/kink whatever...
the upshot is there are two things here
1. As people's identities evolve as might their interests and desires, this can be even more marked when someone embarks on medical transition and the effect of medications come into play and their brain stabilises running on the right mix.
2. As you normalise your identity you no longer feel the need to find a safe space to express yourself.
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