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Here's a link to further reading, in the form of an essay I wrote a little while back, on how, if I had a choice about whether or not to be transgender, I'd have chosen differently.https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/10/transgender-memo-ideology-condition-choice.html …
I did not want to have gender dysphoria. If there had been a treatment that could have eliminated gender dysphoria without transiitoning- a treatment to make me cis, at 38, happily married to a lesbian? You better believe I'd have picked that one.
Coming into this community I have learned so much and benefited so much by people who reject the cis-supremacy I was raised into. I love, respect, and want to hold up those people.
I believe a world where people could freely choose their gender and change between genders would be a better world. And yet, I did not choose mine. I know that for certain, because I tried so very hard to choose otherwise.
Even though for me, transition was necessary for my happiness, I don't know if I can see my transness as immutable. I say this because I know if I was born 100 years earlier, the chance if me having transitioned would be practically zero.
I think you can make a distinction btw gender dysphoria and transgenderedness, but I'm not sure I find that distinction particularly useful? If I'd been born 500 yrs ago I wouldn't be able to see, but that doesn't mean my eyes wouldn't have benefitted from glasses.
I mean, personally, for me, talking about fluidity in sexuality means talking about the fact that my identification has changed, and may change more over time as I understand myself better and even as I grow.
And this fact is exploitable by the right, but it doesn't make me any less who and what I am. Having a conversation even within our community that tries to deny that actively makes our community hostile to people like me -- and I use that word purposefully.
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