"I wasn't necessarily writing for an audience when I was writing the songs. I was really writing to save my life." Well Laura, yours wasn't the only life that the album saved.
I personally don’t have gender dysphoria but I came here to learn more, and after reading the comments I hope you all persevere through everyday and just live a life of happiness!
Trans men and trans women obviously deserve our support. I think all the support they're asking for, really, is to be treated like men and women, to be given the same respect that we give everybody else.
Most (non-transgender) people seem to act like if they ridicule or demean the transgenders that they'll conform out of sheer shame and guilt. It's one of the hugest acts of bullying and cowardice I've ever been aware of in human history. Transgenders are not just going to go away 'cause people don't like their life choice: to live in peace and not be dehumanized like "everybody else". This child-like playground mentality that (Western) society has is what needs to go away. How most people can accept their (own) unfair and unjust treatment of people who are different (no matter how different) from them so casually is just sad and pitiful. So, yeah, I wholeheartedly agree that transgenders deserve respect. Nazi Germany is a thing of the past. So (transgender) critics need to look in the mirror and start being HUMAN and stop defending their fascist stance on exclusivity and what makes a human being acceptable or not based on their rights to express themselves regardless of if others accept and embrace THEIR THUTH.
@@ld8178 what makes you think we don’t? It is the fact that we do accept ourselves that we live everyday as ourselves regardless of the hatred we encounter every single day just to be happy.
The problem is it feels forced, politicized and their advocates don’t seem to be from the community and believe their self appointed to speak on behalf for them
Guess I’m one of a lot of you guys, grow up in a boy body became a man and very happy. Can’t imagine being any different. But I can’t imagine the pain of being different either. I wish them the best and hope they all find happiness, one way or another.
I'm cis but my heart goes out to all the trans people who are struggling to survive. It's so sad that people have to feel like this, deal with crippling depression, dysphoria, distress and their disagreeing relatives. You all are so valid and strong. You deserve to feel happy and be happy with who you are. I hope you all will find love and will transition well. Just stay strong, things will eventually get better ♥ I love ya'll
Discovering that I had gender dysphoria was like being born again, or actually like truly being born in the first place. I began existing in the world instead of in a parallel universe. I am now an actual person instead of an NPC in someone else's video game, unable to speak what I really feel. Some people do not realize why it is such a big deal -- but that's why. People take living as themselves in the world for granted. I do not. Imagine being so forced to be unaligned to who you really are, to be ashamed of how you really feel, from an early age, that the first time you feel an authentic feeling as who you really are you nearly faint. Yep. It's nice to have feelings now, and to be able to express them. People just cannot imagine what that is like -- when the world says you do not exist, and furthermore you cannot exist, and it is shameful that you exist. you do not fit in anywhere, and all social relationships are taxing and draining to a horrific degree. You are so isolated. No wonder that transgender people have the highest suicide rate of any group. To say that I love Laura Jane Grace, or this series, is such an understatement it seems silly... LAURA THE LIBERATOR OF SOULS sounds more like it.
When I started puberty I reacted by becoming almost hyper-feminine, I had short hair but I was like "hey look I'm stil a girl!! I have boobs!! Look at my boobs and my face and ignore the fact that I'm clearly compensating for the fact that I cant stand the way people look at me" I wanted to control that and I never talked about how I felt and so It took a long time to realize that this is what I wanted. I didnt know what a trans person was even longer to find out that ftm trans men were a thing. Now I'm starting my transition and I look in the mirror and see a feminine man but everyone else sees a woman and I just want to change that
i feel like the same happened to me but going the other way. i never had words or a real way to describe what i was feeling and so i reacted by kind of shoving it all down inside of me and trying to be the stereotypically masc cisgender guy that i really just, never was. i just never had a way to describe it or deal with it. even after i realized like, oh shit, im trans and this is why ive been feeling this way, i still tried to hide from it and it led to me really just being a shell for a long time. it wasnt until recently when i started going to college that i found the support i needed to actually accept myself and begin my transition, even tho its going very slowly, i look in the mirror and i see progress. i hope youre making progress too, however you can
@@ekcoasters1266 ive been on testosterone for 6-ish months and although I haven't had much change it is amazing how much better and more confident and comfortable with myself I am. Its a slow journey but its so damn worth it to be happy
Thank you so much for touching on gender dysphoria. I'm genderqueer, and sometimes it's just so fucking hard to deal with and it's added to my depression majorly. Showing this video to my mom who's always been really supportive of me really helped me show her how I feel sometimes and it's brought us even closer. I appreciate it so much, Laura.
+AJ Rodriguez It's utterly fucking crap isn't it? Sometimes I want to shout out at the top of my voice about how I feel but then I sink back down and think "if I do then everybody will hate me and make fun of me". I want to be able to tell the world that I'm not a weirdo, a freak or a pervert and I didn't choose this... I'm broken and if you'll just bear with me.. I'll come good. I'm happy that you've found a way through this and I hope everything works out for you (and remember this isn't just about you.. your mom is hurting too... buy her some chocolates or flowers from time to time and take the time to say thank you and I love you) x x x x x
I relate to sooo many of these stories. I really needed this, ofc I've heard trans people describe their stories before, but it's nice to get that variety and also to see someone you look up to telling their story as well.
It's that feeling of uncomfortability that always lingers, it's those passing thoughts you so quickly dismiss that come back to haunt you, it's the days where you just feel bad and wrong and confused, it's all those repressed desires you've never entertained, it's the growing unease with all your decisions as you've surrounded yourself with things that make you genuinely unhappy and you've convinced yourself that who you are is fundamentally wrong and needs to be repressed so even it begins to make you unhappy... and then there's the time when it all comes down on you, the moment you realize what you've been doing, the moment you actually feel compelled to look at yourself, actually aknowledge yourself, and actually accept that you haven't been looking at yourself, you haven't seen yourself, that no one has ever seen you, and you can't keep denying it you can't keep running you can't keep existing as the shell of a person that you are and you can't keep compartmentalizing yourself and you recognize that you have to do something because it only gets worse and it won't go away, you don't go away, you can't run from yourself
Oh my gosh, my feelings. First we see/hear her awesome mother, than January who helped her the way kinda Laura helped her. She is such an idol, not only to me. You rock!
around 4:49 i have the same issues. i hardly ever shower and never touch or look at my chest when putting on a bra and its really difficult cause i cant do much about gender dysphoria at 14
hi hun, that’s really awful and i’m sorry : ( by now your def not 14 anymore but you can certainly still do things about your dysphoria. if you can afford a binder you can manage to get one even around your parents if you can have a friend order it, if not, there’s a couple other relatively safe ways to bind. if you have the means you can make a binder, a makeshift one can easily be made with a tanktop with a built in bra in it by placing the elastic on the bra part over the center of the chest/nipples and folding the rest of the shirt over. sports bras are ur best friend. if your chest is small enough, you can tape it back with medical tape. make sure to put bandaids over your nipples, never place medical tape directly over them. quit shaving if you think it’ll help. buy men’s deodorant. look into transitioning once you’re old enough, i recommend planned parenthood
I’m a cis man myself, but I have a understand a a lot about this stuff. I also agree with Buck Angel in another interview. He said that it’s not mens fault that their transphobic because a lot of them are taught to be like that by their parents at a young age. A lot of them technically don’t know any better…
I get hate message every day, people calling me a pervert and pedophile and some threatening to find me and "straighten me out". I made some videos of my experiences but I hate how my voice sounds on film so I probably wont post them.
If I would meet anyone from this video, I probably wouldn't even think that they weren't that what they wanted to be. They all look like they are that what they suppose to be! And I'm sad, that so many people on this planet don't have the strength to come out and say what they are because of fucking people who think that it isn't normal. Religion is a big issue because most say you are what you are and you can't be something else and we all know that is bull because these people proved that you can be what you really are even if you were born as wrong gender. Luckily medicine is at a point where people can change their body so that they become on the outside, what they always were on the inside!
Making this out to be a dysphoria which it clearly is in 2022 would be considered bigoted.. forcing those to except that physical biological sex is notxistent has not helped this community and is not actually factually correct.. if this was made out to be what it actually is which is a mental thing that doesn’t need physical correction everything and everyone would be more excepting and better off
@@leninsfeetleninsfeet5018 he's vocally nonbinary-phobic, outed a trans woman against her will, cozies up with transphobes, and has spread lies about transgender surgeries. He's blatantly a transmedicalist as well
Ah so once again, only certain trans people's stories should be told. Everyone does fucked up things, everyone has the right to have an opinion especially about a community they are apart of. To suggest that Buck should be silenced is part of the problem. Instead of letting people hear all sides and choose or change their minds and grow. No, I don't agree with everything Buck says and does but to bitch about a guest on a series from 5 years ago, it's utterly ridiculous. And to put more hate on a trans person who dares not go with the narrative, shows its about furthering an ideology, and not letting these people be who they want.
This is quite a nonsense. I remember feeling like I wanted to be a boy around age 9-10. But it lasted for only a week and it never returned again! It is normal to fantasize about the other sex in childhood, that's how you discover yourself and the world around you. Tom says exactly what the real problem with him is: split personality disorder. However he wasn't advised to seek help because he wasn't dangerous to his surroundings and didn't behave hysterically. He 'just' dresses like a woman.
under88Me What's nonsense is your disrespect for Laura. You don't suffer gender dysphoria, so you'll never know what it's like, but you can still educate yourself on it. Sure it's normal to fantasize about being the other sex, but remember, sex is different from gender. Sex is what you're born with, and gender is how your identify. For some, being forced into a little box and identifying with the gender that is typically associated with their sex is not something that they can live with. It can end up a matter of life and death.
I'm not showing disrespect I show empathy and feel really sorry for him or her or whatever. I wish people suffering from gender dysphoria could be cured.
under88Me The only reason for suffering is society's cruel gender stereotypes. You're a man and you want to wear a dress? Not happening. You're a woman and you pick clothes for the men's section? Sorry, no respect. You scream like a girl. Act lady like. Stuff like that contributes to the severity of gender dysphoria. But just remember, not every person under the trans* umbrella is "suffering" from gender dysphoria. Gender is not black and white. And there's nothing to be "cured" of. And us in the trans community don't want your pity. We want you to fuck off and let us transition if we want to without this unnecessary judgment. By referring to LAURA by HER birth name and pronouns, you not only disrespect HER, but anyone who identifies as trans*. You disrespect PEOPLE. HUMANS. NEED I GO ON? You also show your stupidity and lack of understanding of anything around you.
I don't think this video mentioned anyone who said they felt like a boy or girl one day as a kid and instantly transitioned to that gender. Transgender people feel out of place for years. :-I
What your saying is nonsense if I had a dollar for every time it heard that and I'm old I'd b rich you are who you are and I'm who Iam everyone goes through phases it's true but some of us are real
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"I wasn't necessarily writing for an audience when I was writing the songs. I was really writing to save my life." Well Laura, yours wasn't the only life that the album saved.
this
@TWASM leave
100% this
Yep. Her music and book saved my life.
I personally don’t have gender dysphoria but I came here to learn more, and after reading the comments I hope you all persevere through everyday and just live a life of happiness!
Trans men and trans women obviously deserve our support. I think all the support they're asking for, really, is to be treated like men and women, to be given the same respect that we give everybody else.
Most (non-transgender) people seem to act like if they ridicule or demean the transgenders that they'll conform out of sheer shame and guilt. It's one of the hugest acts of bullying and cowardice I've ever been aware of in human history. Transgenders are not just going to go away 'cause people don't like their life choice: to live in peace and not be dehumanized like "everybody else". This child-like playground mentality that (Western) society has is what needs to go away. How most people can accept their (own) unfair and unjust treatment of people who are different (no matter how different) from them so casually is just sad and pitiful. So, yeah, I wholeheartedly agree that transgenders deserve respect. Nazi Germany is a thing of the past. So (transgender) critics need to look in the mirror and start being HUMAN and stop defending their fascist stance on exclusivity and what makes a human being acceptable or not based on their rights to express themselves regardless of if others accept and embrace THEIR THUTH.
+ReliableInsider Thank you for your support :-)
They should but I also think it start with them accepting themselves.
@@ld8178 what makes you think we don’t? It is the fact that we do accept ourselves that we live everyday as ourselves regardless of the hatred we encounter every single day just to be happy.
The problem is it feels forced, politicized and their advocates don’t seem to be from the community and believe their self appointed to speak on behalf for them
Guess I’m one of a lot of you guys, grow up in a boy body became a man and very happy. Can’t imagine being any different. But I can’t imagine the pain of being different either. I wish them the best and hope they all find happiness, one way or another.
I'm cis but my heart goes out to all the trans people who are struggling to survive. It's so sad that people have to feel like this, deal with crippling depression, dysphoria, distress and their disagreeing relatives. You all are so valid and strong. You deserve to feel happy and be happy with who you are. I hope you all will find love and will transition well. Just stay strong, things will eventually get better ♥ I love ya'll
Discovering that I had gender dysphoria was like being born again, or actually like truly being born in the first place. I began existing in the world instead of in a parallel universe. I am now an actual person instead of an NPC in someone else's video game, unable to speak what I really feel. Some people do not realize why it is such a big deal -- but that's why. People take living as themselves in the world for granted. I do not. Imagine being so forced to be unaligned to who you really are, to be ashamed of how you really feel, from an early age, that the first time you feel an authentic feeling as who you really are you nearly faint. Yep. It's nice to have feelings now, and to be able to express them. People just cannot imagine what that is like -- when the world says you do not exist, and furthermore you cannot exist, and it is shameful that you exist. you do not fit in anywhere, and all social relationships are taxing and draining to a horrific degree. You are so isolated. No wonder that transgender people have the highest suicide rate of any group. To say that I love Laura Jane Grace, or this series, is such an understatement it seems silly... LAURA THE LIBERATOR OF SOULS sounds more like it.
When I started puberty I reacted by becoming almost hyper-feminine, I had short hair but I was like "hey look I'm stil a girl!! I have boobs!! Look at my boobs and my face and ignore the fact that I'm clearly compensating for the fact that I cant stand the way people look at me" I wanted to control that and I never talked about how I felt and so It took a long time to realize that this is what I wanted. I didnt know what a trans person was even longer to find out that ftm trans men were a thing. Now I'm starting my transition and I look in the mirror and see a feminine man but everyone else sees a woman and I just want to change that
i feel like the same happened to me but going the other way. i never had words or a real way to describe what i was feeling and so i reacted by kind of shoving it all down inside of me and trying to be the stereotypically masc cisgender guy that i really just, never was. i just never had a way to describe it or deal with it. even after i realized like, oh shit, im trans and this is why ive been feeling this way, i still tried to hide from it and it led to me really just being a shell for a long time. it wasnt until recently when i started going to college that i found the support i needed to actually accept myself and begin my transition, even tho its going very slowly, i look in the mirror and i see progress. i hope youre making progress too, however you can
@@ekcoasters1266 ive been on testosterone for 6-ish months and although I haven't had much change it is amazing how much better and more confident and comfortable with myself I am. Its a slow journey but its so damn worth it to be happy
Thank you so much for touching on gender dysphoria. I'm genderqueer, and sometimes it's just so fucking hard to deal with and it's added to my depression majorly. Showing this video to my mom who's always been really supportive of me really helped me show her how I feel sometimes and it's brought us even closer. I appreciate it so much, Laura.
AJ Rodriguez So happy to hear that the show has had a positive impact! Thank you for watching :)
+AJ Rodriguez It's utterly fucking crap isn't it? Sometimes I want to shout out at the top of my voice about how I feel but then I sink back down and think "if I do then everybody will hate me and make fun of me". I want to be able to tell the world that I'm not a weirdo, a freak or a pervert and I didn't choose this... I'm broken and if you'll just bear with me.. I'll come good. I'm happy that you've found a way through this and I hope everything works out for you (and remember this isn't just about you.. your mom is hurting too... buy her some chocolates or flowers from time to time and take the time to say thank you and I love you) x x x x x
AJ Rodriguez Good luck to you, cutie 💜✊
Load of rubbish.
as one who only came out a year ago its hard when my parents don't care or don't bother to talk with me about it and when we do it turns into a fight
Cristalveil I hope things are working out for you 💜
I relate to sooo many of these stories. I really needed this, ofc I've heard trans people describe their stories before, but it's nice to get that variety and also to see someone you look up to telling their story as well.
It's that feeling of uncomfortability that always lingers, it's those passing thoughts you so quickly dismiss that come back to haunt you, it's the days where you just feel bad and wrong and confused, it's all those repressed desires you've never entertained, it's the growing unease with all your decisions as you've surrounded yourself with things that make you genuinely unhappy and you've convinced yourself that who you are is fundamentally wrong and needs to be repressed so even it begins to make you unhappy... and then there's the time when it all comes down on you, the moment you realize what you've been doing, the moment you actually feel compelled to look at yourself, actually aknowledge yourself, and actually accept that you haven't been looking at yourself, you haven't seen yourself, that no one has ever seen you, and you can't keep denying it you can't keep running you can't keep existing as the shell of a person that you are and you can't keep compartmentalizing yourself and you recognize that you have to do something because it only gets worse and it won't go away, you don't go away, you can't run from yourself
I have so many similar feels about my gender dysphoria. I'm crying right now.
Same here, bud
Moonbear6420 same
Oh my gosh, my feelings. First we see/hear her awesome mother, than January who helped her the way kinda Laura helped her. She is such an idol, not only to me. You rock!
Is Buck Hugh Jackman's twin? Haha.
my coping mechanism is Video Games...
Jet Edge I second that comment, if you’re on Xbox we could play together sometime 👍
Mine is as well even though im 3 years late to this comment
RoyaleCreations Mine as well I’m also 3 years late to this comment
around 4:49 i have the same issues. i hardly ever shower and never touch or look at my chest when putting on a bra and its really difficult cause i cant do much about gender dysphoria at 14
hi hun, that’s really awful and i’m sorry : ( by now your def not 14 anymore but you can certainly still do things about your dysphoria. if you can afford a binder you can manage to get one even around your parents if you can have a friend order it, if not, there’s a couple other relatively safe ways to bind. if you have the means you can make a binder, a makeshift one can easily be made with a tanktop with a built in bra in it by placing the elastic on the bra part over the center of the chest/nipples and folding the rest of the shirt over. sports bras are ur best friend. if your chest is small enough, you can tape it back with medical tape. make sure to put bandaids over your nipples, never place medical tape directly over them. quit shaving if you think it’ll help. buy men’s deodorant. look into transitioning once you’re old enough, i recommend planned parenthood
Yeah sorry to hear that, there is ways you can hide your chest though
So many beautiful people!
I’m a cis man myself, but I have a understand a a lot about this stuff. I also agree with Buck Angel in another interview. He said that it’s not mens fault that their transphobic because a lot of them are taught to be like that by their parents at a young age. A lot of them technically don’t know any better…
I get hate message every day, people calling me a pervert and pedophile and some threatening to find me and "straighten me out". I made some videos of my experiences but I hate how my voice sounds on film so I probably wont post them.
That’s their own self hatred being weaponized at you. 🖤 I hate how my voice sounds too.
I have to listen to the last album again. Last time I did, musically, it didn't click with me so I wasn't a fan. Maybe next time it will be different.
Cool to see the Castle theater in this clip. I saw tons of shows there when I was in college.
I loved this band before I found out she's trans! cool coincidence! I nevet imagined there would be a trans singer!
This was very awesome. Thank you!
Thank U for being U, Sis...
All so beautiful :)
why does laura jane grace remind me of ozzy osbourne?
Michael Langley He does not.
Now wonder when i search gender dysphoria a lot of videos pop up
let's be honest we're all here for Buck lol jk
+One Wandering Sage But you can afford internet connection?
oh this gonna be great oh-
Buck's in this
it was still good
It’s literally about dysphoria so...
If I would meet anyone from this video, I probably wouldn't even think that they weren't that what they wanted to be. They all look like they are that what they suppose to be! And I'm sad, that so many people on this planet don't have the strength to come out and say what they are because of fucking people who think that it isn't normal. Religion is a big issue because most say you are what you are and you can't be something else and we all know that is bull because these people proved that you can be what you really are even if you were born as wrong gender. Luckily medicine is at a point where people can change their body so that they become on the outside, what they always were on the inside!
One in 11,000 sounds way off more like 1 in 100,000 or more
ya ok i call bullshit on the arm wrestling lol
Lmao they took the term and flipped it im done... lmao
What?
Poor women and men what you do to yourself!!..
people
DOING THIS!😩
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Making this out to be a dysphoria which it clearly is in 2022 would be considered bigoted.. forcing those to except that physical biological sex is notxistent has not helped this community and is not actually factually correct.. if this was made out to be what it actually is which is a mental thing that doesn’t need physical correction everything and everyone would be more excepting and better off
it bothers me that buck angel was included in this series :/
what's up with buck? he has done a ton for the ftm community
@@leninsfeetleninsfeet5018 he's vocally nonbinary-phobic, outed a trans woman against her will, cozies up with transphobes, and has spread lies about transgender surgeries. He's blatantly a transmedicalist as well
Ah so once again, only certain trans people's stories should be told.
Everyone does fucked up things, everyone has the right to have an opinion especially about a community they are apart of. To suggest that Buck should be silenced is part of the problem. Instead of letting people hear all sides and choose or change their minds and grow.
No, I don't agree with everything Buck says and does but to bitch about a guest on a series from 5 years ago, it's utterly ridiculous. And to put more hate on a trans person who dares not go with the narrative, shows its about furthering an ideology, and not letting these people be who they want.
@@KrissyMeow I'm not saying he should be silenced he just is a shitty person
That's sad a child shouldn't be looking at modanna at 5 years old smh
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weird
Your biological sex is identified at birth. Wish trans people would drop the nonsense of gender assigned at birth.
The luciferian Era has already began.
Here’s a thought: You literally are not harmed in anyway in regard to someone’s preferred gender identity. Mind your own and get over yourself.
im gonna have biological sex with your parents
This is quite a nonsense. I remember feeling like I wanted to be a boy around age 9-10. But it lasted for only a week and it never returned again! It is normal to fantasize about the other sex in childhood, that's how you discover yourself and the world around you.
Tom says exactly what the real problem with him is: split personality disorder. However he wasn't advised to seek help because he wasn't dangerous to his surroundings and didn't behave hysterically. He 'just' dresses like a woman.
under88Me What's nonsense is your disrespect for Laura. You don't suffer gender dysphoria, so you'll never know what it's like, but you can still educate yourself on it.
Sure it's normal to fantasize about being the other sex, but remember, sex is different from gender. Sex is what you're born with, and gender is how your identify. For some, being forced into a little box and identifying with the gender that is typically associated with their sex is not something that they can live with. It can end up a matter of life and death.
I'm not showing disrespect I show empathy and feel really sorry for him or her or whatever. I wish people suffering from gender dysphoria could be cured.
under88Me The only reason for suffering is society's cruel gender stereotypes. You're a man and you want to wear a dress? Not happening. You're a woman and you pick clothes for the men's section? Sorry, no respect. You scream like a girl. Act lady like. Stuff like that contributes to the severity of gender dysphoria. But just remember, not every person under the trans* umbrella is "suffering" from gender dysphoria. Gender is not black and white.
And there's nothing to be "cured" of. And us in the trans community don't want your pity. We want you to fuck off and let us transition if we want to without this unnecessary judgment. By referring to LAURA by HER birth name and pronouns, you not only disrespect HER, but anyone who identifies as trans*. You disrespect PEOPLE. HUMANS. NEED I GO ON? You also show your stupidity and lack of understanding of anything around you.
I don't think this video mentioned anyone who said they felt like a boy or girl one day as a kid and instantly transitioned to that gender. Transgender people feel out of place for years. :-I
What your saying is nonsense if I had a dollar for every time it heard that and I'm old I'd b rich you are who you are and I'm who Iam everyone goes through phases it's true but some of us are real