[ SECRET POST #1606 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1606 ⌋


Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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20. http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2011-5/1366895/image.aspx.jpg
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[Sorority Boys]


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[Hustle]


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[Reefer Madness]


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[Lena Meyer-Landrut & Alexander Rybak]


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33. [SPOILERS for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides]



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35. [TRIGGER WARNING for rape]



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36. [TRIGGER WARNING for depression/self-harm]















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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 2 3 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 (trigger/warning for rape/rape in image/underage) - too big ], [ 0 - repeats ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

How I yearn for the days we didn't need super special snowflake vocabulary for everything, and the term for "transgendered" was the much more accurate "transexual." Because gender IS a social construct. And as such, its bindings are based only on society, not on biology. You CAN choose the gender/choose to express the societally-built gender that feels the most appropriate for yourself. But sadly, that doesn't mean society will accept it with open arms.

[anivad.livejournal.com]

I'm going to quote one of my trans friends here: "MY BODY IS NOT A FUCKING SOCIAL CONSTRUCT".

If I were all alone in a post-apocalpytic world with no one to enforce any constraints on my gendered behaviour, my body would still feel wrong, and medically transitioning would have still been the best decision I could make.

There is gender in terms of behaviour, interests, etc - and that is a social construct, yes.

But gender in terms of one's mental map of their body not matching up with their physical reality, leading to extreme discomfort and a persistent sense of dissonance from as young as three years of age - that is not a social construct.

There are masculine trans women and feminine trans men. Because gender may be a social construct, but gender identity and one's gendered body perception, laid out in the brain, is not.

I'm not particularly masculine, I have a hell lot of stereotypically feminine interests, I'm attracted to men, and I still feel the pressing need for a male body despite living in a country that is highly homophobic and transphobic. If there were any way to continue living as female without wanting to kill myself all the time, I'd have done it, believe me.

This post covers it better than I do: http://www.questioningtransphobia.com/?p=194

Links: http://aebrain.blogspot.com/p/reference-works-on-transsexual-and.html