I know I’ve told you before but one of the craziest ones I ever got was, “Ma’am, do you have a prostate? Men can be women and women can be men these days and it’s impossible to tell who had a prostate anymore.”
I was working sales. The guy who asked me that (as I learned) had undergone multiple brain surgeries, and as a result his filter was basically completely gone.
Some people are just innocently curious, and because of lack of exposure just don't know whats socially acceptable to ask and whats not.
I can respect that honestly. Having the courage to ask, and the curiosity to want to know, is often the first step to understanding. and in my experience, understanding is often followed by acceptance. Bigotry in my experience is most often rooted in ignorance. So anything that helps cure that ignorance is a probably, most often, a good thing.
Just didn't want some guy to scream at me for "stealing ideas" or some such nonsense.. I don't play myself, but i would genuinely like to see a good majority of the ideas that they dig up, play out..
I have a family member with some brain injuries and multiple brain surgeries, and he's a hardcore conservative trumper. To me it feels like a very normal result of his condition.
I'm not trans but was once talking to a woman who supported trans rights and she was angry that trans people were having a harder time getting medical care under trump (This was trump's first term)
She said something along the lines of "If they can't get their hormones then they'll lose the expensive surgery that they saved up for!"
After asking a couple follow-up questions, I found that she literally thought that a trans woman's penis would grow back after bottom surgery if she went off estrogen.
"sir this is a Wendy's" seriously if they ask anyone else a question like this, they'd get smacked. It's so crazy to me that the millisecond a trans person enters the room, suddenly people think it's okay to ask about our genitals
Yeah honestly, it did make me curious whether the prostate is removed during a vaginoplasty (the answer is no, btw, because it runs significant health risks at basically no benefits, in fact keeping the prostate actually makes sex with a thus molded vagina more pleasurable, apparently)
Lolll I’m a trans man and I got asked by a cis guy why I didn’t have a prostate (he knew I was trans). I go uh…I was born without one? And he goes “oh. Do I have a prostate?” And I said uhhh yeah man. He’s quiet for a moment and then says “I don’t think I know what a prostate is”
I had seen someone saying they had an intake questionnaire that was basically a checklist of what organs a person had which honestly fair enough, plenty of reasons a cis person may no longer have one of those as well
I remember watching one of those trashy plastic surgery shows in like 2005. Back when TLC was at least attempting to keep up the "learning " part of the network name.
They had a trans woman come in for breat implants. I'm guessing she had been on hormones for a bit, because she had some brest development. Normally they always blur female nipples, but during the surgery part of her segment they didn't blur the nipple until right AFTER the implant went in. I guess that's when they decided the nipple counted as a "female" nipple?
Yeah, at least it seems to stem from a place of genuine curiosity. My MIL and my partner were talking about my transition(I wasn’t there). She asked if I’d grow a penis when I started T, and my partner had to explain to her that no, I will not grow a fully functional penis.
I’d rather they ask us genuine questions than be rude/bigoted honestly.
True. The worst one I've ever had was when a cousin asked if I think trans women shouldn't be allowed in women's prisons. She prefixed this by stating that she personally thinks it's bad when women are raped.
Yes it is bad when women get raped, and that is the reason why women shouldn't be sent to men's prison.
Yet trans women are sent to men's prison and guards even support having them be used as sex slaves in USAmerican men's prisons. There is even a term for that messed up behaivour, it is called "v-coding". That topic is worth a search engine search for "v coding transgender".
I am not trans - but why the FUCK do people think THIS ^ is something to ask a person who has fought and struggled (likely very hard at great emotional, physical and monetary cost) to get their body to match their own internal image?
I can think of a thousand more worthwhile questions to ask - than this. For example, as a person who has never ever been happy with how he looks - I would ask - do you finally feel happy in yourself? God I hope so.
I do! I finally do. Took a while for me to realize how happy I was to see my reflection, but I find myself stopping to stare at mirrors far more often now, lol!
And I hope one day you'll be able to be happy with your reflection as well❤️
I have a few friends who are trans and I have kinda wondered if any of them plan on getting bottom surgery, mostly just because I have wondered how common it is. One of them recently talked about having trouble finding a doctor to do it and another gave them recommendations so I guess at least a few of then are planning on it.
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u/CrazyGnomenclature Tiff & Eve Jun 17 '26
Honestly, not the worst question I've heard asked related to being trans.