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Reasons

(also: acknowledgments, excuses, grounds, guises, pretexts, rationales

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Introduction

There are many reasons why someone can do something. Everyone is motivated by the things that they want to do and desire. Or something. You know what a reason is. I hope. If you don't, scroll to the bottom of this page, or jump to Additional Resources via the menu above.

General Information

This is a list of reasons why I decided to make this website. These list of reasons are not in any particular order, but are numbered to keep track of the total number of reasons. This list will be updated over time, much as will be the rest of this website. Edits can be seen on internet archive.

List of Reasons

  1. To keep track of all these new acronyms that people keep coming up with.

  2. To compile my research.

  3. To feel important.

  4. To keep track of important and/or interesting links that I come across.

  5. To be able to provide specific links to people during conversations to explain something that I have had to explain to someone more than one time in similar, repetitive conversations.

  6. To be more efficient in the comments on r/FTM.

  7. To encourage cisgender people to read up and learn about transgender topics in a simple, easy-to-digest way that does not require those cisgender people to ask a million invasive questions to random transgender people who probably don't even have the answers to half of those questions, because obviously, not every transgender person has this much knowledge on this many different topics (I suppose at this point, you could consider me to be a statistical outlier.

  8. To bring awareness of more obscure transgender topics.

  9. To create as comprehensive and interesting of a resource that I would have wanted to stumble across when I was a scared child who didn't know what was wrong with me and wanted to desperately find out what the right words were to describe my experiences were.

  10. To force myself to research topics relating to transgender women that I would not have previously researched.

  11. To make a list of every dead trans person that I learn about, to make sure that I never forget their names.

  12. To bring awareness to transgender people.

  13. To promote other useful resources to those who need them, and encourage everyone to research things as much as possible before forming conclusions.

  14. To make as much information as possible be easily accessible, even if a page isn't entierly done yet, and I still need to do more research (this way, at least someone who doesn't know anything can know a little bit, and be aware that something even exists before the page is as in-depth as possible.

  15. I wanted to make a brightly colored website.

  16. So that I can feel like I've done soemthing useful.

  17. To preserve information that may be lost.

  18. To help out anyone trying to figure out where to start when it comes to learning more about the wonder that is the transgender community.

  19. I made this website because I am autistic and really like dictionaries.

  20. To unite the community to focus on being productive and helping one another.

  21. As an excuse to learn more about topics that I would not have otherwise had a personal reason to learn about.

These links are not affiliated with The Transgender Dictionary, however, I do think that they are useful and that you should consider checking them out.