Hey. I’m transfem. There’s not a whole lot of us, but I have encountered many trans people with other disabilities.

I’d say that being visually impaired has made a significant impact on how I perceive my gender. Most of my life, I was far too busy trying to be blind in a world with sight. As a result, every other part of myself (gender identity included) got pushed aside. It wasn’t until college that I realized something was wrong. Now I’m giving the various parts of myself healthy amounts of attention. Nowadays, the biggest way being blind affects me is in clothing. Turns out women have wayyyyyyy more options to pick from. That can be overwhelming when your only option is for a sighted person to describe them to you. Aside that, I’ve struggled to picture myself as I appear to others. I have an idea of what my face looked like, but I’ve no idea how it’s changed with hormones. Since I can’t see myself, my biggest source of dysphoria is my voice.

That’s about what I can think of off the top of my head. Seriously, I think I know of like 3 other blind trans people, and I don’t even personally know one of them. There’s not a whole lot of us. I spose you can call me Pepper.

I think the issue is more about intersectionality rather than specifically blindness or visual impairment while being transgender. I'm non-binary (agender). I don't think being visually impaired changes how I experience my gender or rather lack thereof, but it does impact my overall sense of community and available supports. It often feels like the facets of my identity are extra complications asking people to remember and be mindful of multiple things about me as a person, putting a burden on others. "Oh, so you're blind *and* trans *and ...* ". I worry that people won't take me seriously; I worry that people will think I'm just trying to get more attention or be more 'special,' more 'oppressed' than others. Being blind/disabled in LGBTQIA+ spaces is challenging. Being LGBTQIA+ in blind/disabled spaces is challenging. There's not a lot of overlap or safe places for people who fall into multiple minorities to show up authentically as 100% of who they are, unapologetically. Intersectionality needs improvement across the board.

Edit: thank you for my first-ever award! I’m still figuring out how to find who gave it, haha, but thank you kind soul. :)

I’m male.

I don’t think me being blind changes that part of me.

You can call me Brad.

I’m blind and a trans guy. These two have never conflicted but I know they will soon as my body physically changes with hormones and surgeries. I may be extra observant of my body changing shape. I also fear the issue of not being able to see post op photos of top surgery results from other trans people when searching for a surgeon.

Please keep me anonymous

Have you come across Quiplash? https://www.quiplash.co.uk/ A collective of disabled queer performers, many of whom are gender diverse and I know at least one is blind

Interesting female here and gender and blindness usually are fine. Doesn’t effect it.

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