re: Did It All Start with the Hippies?

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Prior to 1994, America Online prohibited the use of “transvestite” and “transsexual” in public chat names, effectively banning any public transgender discussion space.

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The rise of the World Wide Web, in contrast, opened new spaces outside of such corporate “walled gardens.” With the World Wide Web came a platform that, much like Tumblr, became an unintended trans technology: the homepage. Though largely abandoned as a social platform by the early 2000s, the homepage was the first large-scale format to offer space for identity exploration (Susan Driver Citation2005; Katherine Walker Citation2000). During its height, transgender users eagerly embraced the format.

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Perceptions of Tumblr as a safe space and community enabled meaningful identity change. Jessica described becoming “more secure in my decision to transition because of social media and being able to connect with people who had been through what I was going through, or who were in a similar phase … ” Tumblr’s anonymity also enabled identity change, as Trystan described:

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But tumblr doesn allow adult content now or something with no female nipples so the girls getting their tits chopped off cant post pictures of their chests anymore.