Despite its challenges lemm.ee will forever hold a special place inside my heart. When I signed up to lemm.ee I was younger, more aggressive. Less mature. I did many things to hurt people, I didn't realize that it was because I myself was hurting inside, it took me far longer to realize that. And even though it was communities on lemmy.blahaj.zone who helped me find myself. I still feel that I owe some of it to this instance who gave me a home here when no one else would've.
Thank you to everyone here who tolerated the rude and aggressive young man I used to be, so I could finally come out as the woman I always was, so I could realize the pain I always had but never knew I had. And for that I want to say thanks to lemm.ee. lemm.ee wasn't just a server, it was a community.
I hope I can have new and joyful experiences on lemmy.blahaj.zone, but no place will feel more like home to me than this place. Farewell lemm.ee. You will be missed.
Yeah it happened to friends of mine, well I stopped being friends with them back then because I was a terrible person. I had lots of dumb transphobic explanations for why they "switched sides" but really looking back with what I know now. It's as simple as, anyone who "wants" to be trans just is trans. If they have a lot of transphobic prejudice they may go forward to "prove" it's a choice but they'll learn quickly that it isn't, once they're hit with the euphoria, or the dysphoria, or both. That's when it becomes apparent how little of a choice it is.