Gender Identity Update
8 years ago
General
Hey everyone, got a personal announcement to lay down.
TLDR version: I'm coming out as trans and will be identifying as female from now on. Please call me "Rebecca" and use she/her pronouns, thank you <3
Alright so here's the longer version: People who have known me for years will not be surprised that gender identity has been a confusing topic for me for a very long time. Those feelings and thoughts sort of came to a head within the last month or two and I had to do some deep contemplation about what I really wanted from my identity.
Over the years I've kept snapping back and forth between feminine and masculine, and I've come to realize that most pushes towards something ultra manly was often me running away from being feminine, which is what I actually want. It was always a "you can't pull this off" feeling, but I know with time and work I can, and that it'll be worth it.
I'm not asking a great deal of any of you really. I'm going to be wanting female pronouns (she/her) and I'm going to be pushing my name as Rebecca where I can. I'll keep "Immelmann" account names and will just treat it as a brand or character last name. "Immy" is pretty gender neutral so I won't complain about that, but I really will prefer Rebecca and variants of it.
Fairly sure I'll be staying a raptor, just in a redesigned fashion which I'll be uploading soon, but you never know how I'll feel about animals in a month or two.
I guess that's it, any support and respect will be appreciated and I'll answer any questions that aren't super rude or stupid.
TLDR version: I'm coming out as trans and will be identifying as female from now on. Please call me "Rebecca" and use she/her pronouns, thank you <3
Alright so here's the longer version: People who have known me for years will not be surprised that gender identity has been a confusing topic for me for a very long time. Those feelings and thoughts sort of came to a head within the last month or two and I had to do some deep contemplation about what I really wanted from my identity.
Over the years I've kept snapping back and forth between feminine and masculine, and I've come to realize that most pushes towards something ultra manly was often me running away from being feminine, which is what I actually want. It was always a "you can't pull this off" feeling, but I know with time and work I can, and that it'll be worth it.
I'm not asking a great deal of any of you really. I'm going to be wanting female pronouns (she/her) and I'm going to be pushing my name as Rebecca where I can. I'll keep "Immelmann" account names and will just treat it as a brand or character last name. "Immy" is pretty gender neutral so I won't complain about that, but I really will prefer Rebecca and variants of it.
Fairly sure I'll be staying a raptor, just in a redesigned fashion which I'll be uploading soon, but you never know how I'll feel about animals in a month or two.
I guess that's it, any support and respect will be appreciated and I'll answer any questions that aren't super rude or stupid.
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Since my male birth name was taken from the old testament, I browsed that for similar female names and really liked Rebecca (spelled Rebekah in a lot of versions).
This was um like
10+ years ago, and I've held on to it ever since.
Here is hoping that many others will support you as well. ^o^ Rebecca is a very pretty name! I think it suits you well.
I do hope you still are going to rock that Nostromo jacket.
I'll probably forget your preferred name, I'm afraid. I'm terrible with real names, and will generally refer to everyone by the profile name on their account (even for RL friends whose given names I'm theoretically exposed to on a daily basis).
And if a slight coincidence is amusing at all, one of the minor characters in a (potential) novel I'm working on just got renamed to Rebecca because I realized another character really needed another female friend to confide in. She was formerly names Solomon, so I decided to pick another biblical name.
Can't wait to see the new design and I wish you a good new year. Also, aside from the name and idenity change, is there anything else we should know about like likes, dislikes, similar interests and trivial things like personality traits? Just curious
Or buff feminine raptors.
Or just raptors.
Raptors.
Hit me up if you need info on things like informed consent, generic HRT, etc. I write trans resources on the side for the state department and know how to do a lot of things easier and cheaper.
Granted, as I've said in other responses, God also gave us all the freedom to choose our paths in life. I'm not trying to persecute anyone here, and I hope you'll forgive me if I say I really would rather not pursue a debate about the pros and cons of Christianity and whether it's moral or immoral, etc. The point of my initial response here was that I do care what God thinks, and I care about the covenants I've made with Him. Those covenants leave me in a position where I cannot actively support the course Immy is choosing. However, the teachings I've been raised with also tell me to respect peoples' freedom to choose. So literally, the whole point of the comment I made was to basically tell Immy that while I am bound by my covenants not to support the action, I still respect Immy as a person, and wish him the best in the future, whatever it may bring him.
But the thing is, there is nothing wrong with your post. some aggressive progressives and SJWs may hate you for stating an opinion contrary to theirs, but the only way to weather the storm is to stand by your convictions. Immy took a huge emotional risk by opening herself up the public at large about her Gender Identity. Your initial two posts were as respectful as they could possibly be. If some people want to burn/ban you for it, they are free to believe that. But by the same token, you are free to believe what you want as long as you follow the website's rules.
From what I have seen, FA has not completely fallen to the SJWs yet. If it ever goes full Twitter or full Google, I am pretty sure that the site will quickly become a hostile place, hostile to artists that do business here, Hostile to communities, and will cause the exodus that will bring new life to other furry communities and the true decline of this one.
If you don't have anything nice to say or support someone with, then don't say anything. Nobody wants to know whether you're ok with it or not, especially when you're a stranger to him.
Nobody's berating you for your belief. It's just manners.
Also, if you're that traditional, I'm surprised you read Immelman's Order of the Black Dog since it largely features demons and hell and something that's definitely not the Christian afterlife. Why do you like it?
I too, liked the Beast of Spearmont Pass. Mainly because it was the first avian he'd drawn and I was excited for that ^v^
Also, feelings about the lesbian couple in it?
You gave negative feedback to a stranger’s lifestyle. Even if your heart’s in the right place, most people don’t want negative feedback on their lifestyle, especially if it’s from a stranger. If it’s from a friend, maybe they’ll consider it. But if it’s from a stranger, such feedback can be seen as unneeded and unprompted.
There are people out there who dislike unprompted feedback. Most of us are trying to live through life trying to be ourselves and somehow relating to the main culture. Most of us succeed. Most of us don’t like being told when a ego-supporting strategy is false because of an opinion. For example, let’s say I am a vegetarian. I eat well enough that I am healthy. There is nothing wrong. I would be displeased if someone teased me about it if it vegetarianism was important to me. I wouldn’t like it if they somehow made me eat meat. I wouldn’t like it if they disrespected my lifestyle choice.
Everybody makes lifestyle choices. Nobody likes their lifestyle choice to be criticized. Unless you are their proper friend and the criticism is necessary for them to continue surviving, the criticism is often not wanted. It’s just plain manners to keep criticisms to yourself, even from people you don’t like.
I’m not sure where I was going with that tbh but I feel you have to understand this: Rosgorn was wrong yes to close you off but you are not innocent either. You have possibly hurt feelings by saying what you said, even if you didn’t mean it. So remember, nobody’s ever a true hero.
Your particular use of vocabulary suggests you're attempting to sound more sophisticated than you are, to victimize and mob lynch Omni. Don't get triggered. Other people can respectfully disagree with Rebecca. They don't have to embrace your version of how the world should behave. Black Knight all you wish I'll be here to stand up to bullies.
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I kinda saw it coming, like you said with how you flipped flopped, but glad you have come to terms with what you feel your identity should be. <3 Eitherway you're still you and you're still lovely and I wish you the best of luck in whatever decisions you make on this path.
Eitherway I'm sure as heck you'll design a rad as heck character to represent yourself with <3
Well Rebecca, I hope you soon figure everything out that's still unclear for you and we'll be looking forward to see your amaze art all over the place ^^
But enough about me! I think that you doing this was a very healthy step~ I'm so glad you did this and found yourself!
Good luck on this new chapter of your life's journey!
You do what you gotta do tho 💖
I did sorta figure this but good to know for sure and good luck i know how hard coming out is on a personal levelWhat about that time you made yourself a jocky raptor?
I'm sad we stopped talking as much, but it's good to see you've been keeping up on art and that you were able to sort some personal things out.
You go girl!
... A kind of deep psychological trauma.
But now, I hope, all you mental discord in the past.
I'm raising my glass for you, Rebecca.
Keep it up, girl.
Welcome, Rebecca!!!!!!
It is your body after all ^-^
A toast to you.
(Honestly, your name is your choice, I won't actually be upset if you choose to go by Becca. And even if I was, it shouldn't affect your decision about your identity. ^.^ )
If you ever feel lonely, remember that you’re never alone in your struggles, okay? I know a few groups and support services if you’d like them.~
Always makes me happy when I see others being who they really are.
the anguish of trying to find your identity when you didn't know where it truly lay. Glad to know
you've found it, as you say, it will take a lot of work but totally worth it now you have an aim.
Also Rebecca is a nice name. I think it suits you somehow :)
As somebody who struggled with their own identity for a long time, though not in the exact same way, I can definitely understand how great it feels to finally embrace such a significant part of yourself. Definitely looking forward to see where you go from here!
Also... I always have found Rebecca to be a particularly beautiful name, quite a great choice!
Wait... is it okay if I call you that?
Anyways, happy you made your choice! Love your work, have since the early days of Concession! And glad you're happy!
I was the exact same way for a long time, never could tell if my feelings were actually real or just a fetish, 'cause of my interest in tf art, including gender tf. The whole "masculinity for the sake of femininity-denial" you mentioned really hit the nail on the head! DX
I finally sorted out what's what last year and started HRT last October!
Wherever your journey leads you, I hope you have smooth sailing all the way! ^w^
-Zoe
Rebecca is a real pretty name. And also, I realized about a month and a half ago that I'm a trans girl too <3 Tho I'm still Luca here, because that's also a pretty neutral name, and I've been girly enough for a long time.