I have had dysphoria & I know for a few dysphoria is life-long, but can we afford to ignore the stories of women who felt discomfort, disgust of their own body&the envy of another? Is it not possible that what many girls today feel is what their mothers, aunts, grandmothers felt-
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- but greatly exacerbated and encouraged and glamourised by a society that agrees, yes, hating your body is a good & natural thing, a thing that makes you good and special, a thing for which these pills are just the thing?
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Can we not help these girls realise they can be all the things they want to be - strong, clever, independent, special, loved - within their female self?
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I just think it's so maddeningly cruel to tell girls that the only way that they can reject femininity, that they can reject their supposed inferiority, that they can reject their suffering, is to reject womanhood completely.
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To add I am not even touching on the effects of trauma in disconnecting one from ones body, making one hate it - there is so much more that can be said on the subject
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"When the female body is denigrated and given so little freedom is a desire to be something else unreasonable?" I felt this right in the

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It's so sad that society is at this point.
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Thank you for being so kind!!
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Don’t all girls experience this? I certainly did. It’s a rational response.
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I did too. I agree that it's quite rational! Unfortunately though nowadays we're not just left to work past it and grow up, it's become medicalised
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