Disturbing perspective from @Slate Magazine editor: @evanurquhart
...u might double or triple-take. I did. https://twitter.com/exposingtrans/status/856389469426941954 …
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Ummm...for real?
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Replying to @Sol_Murrell @moyoungjr and
Always up for this. If gender ID is trivial/chosen (I don't believe it is), then stop raising female children as girls. Transition yourself.
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Replying to @e_urq @Sol_Murrell and
No logical reason not to. If gender is socially constructed only and being trans is a choice (it's not), then do it rather than stop others.
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Re "choices," u've previously said u HADNT felt like ir identified as a man b4 u learned mor abt trans-gender ppl, in 2016, right?
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Replying to @moyoungjr @Sol_Murrell
I experienced dysphoria, not "the feeling of being a gender". When I learned more about medical options I decided to try hormone therapy.
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So, if U never "felt a gender," namely the male-gender, but transitioned to the male-gender. Appatently, u made a choice. A complex 1,...
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Replying to @moyoungjr @Sol_Murrell
I approached it like a patient with a medical condition. I researched the condition and weighed the treatment options.
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All trans folks don't see it this way, but my leanings are scientific. Also a difference between me and someone who transitions younger.
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Having been socialized as a female and lived as a female more than 30 yrs had consequences that don't apply to all trans folks.
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The tough thing about trans youth is balancing the good of growing up in the right social gender vs the harm if someone gets it wrong.
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