Evan Urquhart

This is like a bomb https://twitter.com/ContraPoints/status/1045018272603738112 …

So, I'm going to write a thread riffing off my response to Contrapoints that I'm sure no one wants to read, but it's sort of burning a hole in my brain so here goes.

Here's the thing. I didn't consider myself a man pre-transition, and I don't really consider my pre-transition self a man now. I accept and affirm that many trans people experience a deep inner sense of gendered self, but I didn't. Also, I consider myself a binary trans man.

Pre-transition, I had terrible feelings of discomfort around having a female body. It was bad enough that I felt transitioning was warranted just to see if these bad feelings really were gender dysphoria and could go away.

Here's a list of things that helped those feelings: 1. Dressing in male clothes 2. Binding 3. Starting testosterone 4. Passing as male Pronouns aren't on that list.

When Contrapoints says that passing IS her transness, I don't know if she means what I mean, or if this is something a lot of binary trans people feel, but for me my desire to have a cis male body is at the heart of my transness.