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⌈ Secret Post #3538 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Going Anon For This

[(Anonymous)]

I'd assume gender euphoria would be one way it would work.
Where, rather than dysphoria making assigned-gender feel Wrong, it's that not-assigned-gender feels Right.

Fwiw, I believe that gender stereotypes have no real bearing on gender identity (as in, gender-coded interests don't automatically mean you are the gender associated with them).

Basically, my opinion on being trans is that it means someone genuinely feels like they're not the gender they were assigned at birth, rather than "oh I like [stereotypically other-binary-gender thing] I must be [other-binary-gender/nonbinary]" or any other sort of superficial gender essentialist stereotyping.

Re: Going Anon For This

[(Anonymous)]

"gender euphoria"

Sounds like autogynephilia.

Re: Going Anon For This

[(Anonymous)]

No opinion on your first paragraph, but so much agreement on the second two.

What is considered proper gendered behavior varies so much across cultures and through time, even without a contemporary western concept of "transgender" and of gender identity issues in generak, there is still no single, universal way to be a woman or a man. Yet, the concept of people mostly being women or men (with some wiggle room and alternative options, depending on the culture) is pretty universal, and not purely from the angle of biological sex. I think there's such a thing as innate gender identity that is seperate from both biological sex and socially-assigned gender rolls and cultural expectations.

Of course, this means liking [stereotypically other-binary-gender thing] doesn't automatically make you into a magical gender-identity unicorn, and that makes some people mad.

Re: Going Anon For This

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"Basically, my opinion on being trans is that it means someone genuinely feels like they're not the gender they were assigned at birth"

This is how all of my trans friends have described it to me - that it feels like they're in the wrong body. Like, my trans guy friend hates his breasts because they're a constant physical reminder of the fact that he has a female body rather than the male one he should have. He's very femme in terms of gender presentation, but he's not female and so having a female body is genuinely distressing to him.