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fandomsecrets2011-05-27 07:56 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2011-05-27 07:56 pm
[ SECRET POST #1606 ]
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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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