I've had some TERFs in my mentions, so I'm going to write a small thread on how embarrassment and self-hatred kept me from transitioning.
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I didn't know any trans people growing up, or in college, and so my first exposure was hearing about trans people as a political issue.
And, my reaction to learning about trans people was personal embarrassment combined with a need to distance myself from them.
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I never found trans people funny myself, but I knew that other people found them funny, and this was painful to me.
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I blamed trans people for that pain. I viscerally wanted them to stop hurting me by being the object of ridicule.
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