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Is all gender identity, trauma?

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Along these lines, the theory would treat all forms of identity as trauma, and the more constructed/advanced, the more traumatizing.

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Trauma is a blurry word, but I buy it in a particular sense: identities as strategies for interfacing with the social world to get the things you need (or desire), themselves determined by a sense of persistent (traumatic) "lacking".

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Identity as a protection against trauma?

wokeness within the boundaries of mere reason

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Wendy Brown?

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