10 Basic Trans Terms You Need to Know

oh hi there do you want a youtube video
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or something okay I’ll give it to you
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what’s up you guys my name is Sam and
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welcome back to my channel today we’re
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gonna be talking about ten basic terms
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that you need to know if you’re going to
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interact with a trench and a person or
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just be well educated and cool term
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number one is transgender it is the most
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basic term and it is an umbrella term
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for people whose gender identity differs
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from the sex they were assigned at Birth
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an umbrella term hope that was a good
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representation for you it really does
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include all sorts of people that
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basically their identity differs from
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something that they are assigned at
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birth sites like gender fluid a gender
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people which is all just kind of under
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the umbrella term of non-binary and
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transsexual people like yours truly
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stuff like that it includes all of it
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I’m around the time term number two is
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transsexual and that is a person who
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emotionally and psychologically feels
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that they belong to the opposite sex
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that’s me I was born a female and I
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identify as a male in the most basic way
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that is me that’s exactly what I am a
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lot of people are like yeah that is
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still in fact true because at once again
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I’m under the umbrella of transgender
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just more specifically I am transsexual
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but we just don’t use that word in the
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world as commonly every use transgender
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term number three is FGM / m TF and that
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simply means female to male or male to
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female a lot of people when they’re
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talking to you if they’re all casual and
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they’ll be like yo I’m Sam I’m FGM
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and that just means female to male is
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just like a quick way and quick little
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abbreviation to identify it what the
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heck you are
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remember for is dysphoria something we
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all love so much in the transgender
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community and it’s the condition of
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feeling ones emotional and psychological
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identity as a male or female to be
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opposite to one’s biological sex that’s
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the basic definition but I kind of
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covered this in another video I’ll link
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it down below if you want to check it
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out I give more examples and go more in
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depth about it dysphoria it just means
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discomfort gender dysphoria is the
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discomfort of being like viewed and
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treated as a gender that you don’t
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identify as so that can be physical or
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societal check out the video for more
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but that is the basic understanding of
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it it’s very uncomfortable and in fact
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probably all transgender people I would
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say maybe not all and it is very very
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hard to deal with term number five is
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this is the birth name of someone who
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has changed it has a really awkward
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definition whatever I guess that’s the
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definition basically in the transgender
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community it is a name you never want to
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hear again never want to talk about
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again never want to be asked about again
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so this is a dead name because it makes
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people feel very uncomfortable it’s like
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a nice little trigger to a life that
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they don’t identify with or want to
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think about usually unless they want to
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tell you about it and open up about
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their past it’s generally just not
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something you want to do term number six
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is cisgender and that is probably you
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who is watching this maybe not I don’t
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know but it is most of the world and it
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is denoting or relating to a person
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whose sense of personal identity and
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gender corresponds with their birth sex
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this is if you’re born a female and then
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you identify as female if you’re born
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male and you indentify as male that’s
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you that’s this gender and a lot of us
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refer to it as sis so we’re like oh yeah
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the person sits you’ll hear that a lot
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especially in the lgbtq+ community and
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that just means
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exactly that you identify with how you
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were born basically term number seven is
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top surgery and this is a great surgery
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this is how I got this nice flat chest
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in these nice cars um this is a surgery
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performed on the chest as part of gender
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reassignment especially to remove breast
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tissue and produce a masculine
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appearance of the chest and
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female-to-male surgery so this is a very
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very popular surgery it is basically the
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removal of the breasteses and it makes
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people very happy a lot of transgender
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people want it not everyone wants it and
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within Top surgery there are different
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kinds that you can get you can get
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keyhole peri aerial or double incision
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those are kind of the three most
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commonly used ones and talked about ones
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then there’s a ton of like sub category
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types of surgeries you can get but I’m
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not going to go into all those that will
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be for a future video it is out of the
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top surgery and bottom surgery that
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we’ll talk about in a second it is a
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more cost effective one that is more
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popular because of that still not cost
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effective it’s very expensive people
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have to save up for years and years and
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stuff like that but out of the two it is
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a bit more manageable so lots of people
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get Top surgery and it is a very
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exciting thing to do from number eight
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in bottom surgery and this is surgery
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performed on a person’s genitals as part
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of gender reassignment there are three
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different basic kinds you can get as
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well this is vaginoplasty that’s for a
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male to female phalloplasty or
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millennial plasti and those are two
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different kinds that female to male can
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get this surgery is way more expensive
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and science is not quite as amazing with
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it as they are with top surgery so it’s
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a little less comment get it is still
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widely wanted and desired like yours
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truly firm number nine is intramuscular
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or I am and this is the
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action of a substance directly into the
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muscle this is a very very common way to
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inject medication in my case it would be
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testosterone and it is a bigger needle a
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little bit thicker not a little bit okay
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how do I say this the needle is a bit
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thicker and longer
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it is a literal stab in the dark too if
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you’re gonna hit a nerve or not you have
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places that doctors tell you to kind of
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avoid nerves but it is still kind of a
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literal stab in the dark so a lot of
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people get a little nervous with this
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one but this is a very very common way
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to inject such said things into such a
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body I also did a video about this like
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a long time ago when I was doing
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literally my first time ever getting
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myself the shot of intramuscular if you
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want to check that out and kind of see
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what you have to do and what it looks
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like I’ll link that down below if you
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want to check that out
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term number 10 is sub-q slash
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subcutaneous which is a method of
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administering medication under the skin
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so this is what I do now because it’s
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much more pleasant you guys it is a tiny
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little needle who died just goes
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basically under the skin and above your
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muscle into the fatty tissue it is way
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less painful and way less scary because
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the needles so freakin tiny so
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transgender people are learning more and
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more about it the more it gets out into
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the world and the news and the doctors
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are telling people about it they’re
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learning about it I think God heard
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about in one of my other support groups
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I went to one time and I was like heck
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yeah you’re transgender and you don’t
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know about it ask your doctor about it
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because it’s way less painful and way
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less scary and a lot more fun if you’re
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gonna have to be doing it for the rest
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of your life so try it out and as a
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bonus track slash track bonus term
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that’s what I meant to say baby trans
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makes me giggle every time my basic
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understanding of it tell me if I’m wrong
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like you know you’re a baby trans like
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this is me being a baby trans that’s
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when you’re in the baby stages of being
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transgender so you got like the
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especially female to male
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everyone’s got like a little puffier
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cheeks until we like slimmed down in our
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transition with testosterone so you got
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like a little baby face baby mentality
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and baby emotions it’s just like a cute
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little term of like oh that’s my baby
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trans lag but yeah guys that is the ten
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basic terms that you should know if
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you’re going to be around a transgender
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person or just want to communicate a
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little more effectively in this world
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coming from a transgender person if any
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other type of person cisgender or anyone
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else even in the lgbtq+ community knows
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these terms and uses them well and
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effectively it’s a huge thing and it
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feels very respectful and it just makes
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us really happy because it feels like
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you’ve done your research and you’re
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educated and you’re learning and
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proactive about it so we appreciate it
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and just general humans will appreciate
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it as well because we’re learning I love
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you thank you so much for watching I’ll
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be out next week with another video and
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I will see you then
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alright love you guys bye
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