this might be shocking for some of you but being cis doesn’t mean you’re comfortable with your gender or “how you were born”. gender is like an inherently uncomfortable system and i don’t think it’s unreasonable to say that a lot of people who don’t fall into the category of “trans” experience alienation from their bodies, agab and how they’re read & treated by those around them on the basis of gender. and being trans isn’t about being uncomfortable with yourself! for me personally my transness is about learning to love myself for who i am. to reduce transness to being in a perpetual state of self hatred and discomfort really just shows that u don’t think trans people are capable (or deserving) of self love, and it sends a message to trans people who are sufferring rn that it can never get better. which is wildly irresponsible at best bro
let me just clarify that this doesn’t make any individual trans person’s distress less legitimate or worthy of care. it’s just reductive and harmful to posit suffering as the central defining aspect of The Collective Trans Experience when that’s simply not the case. transmedicalists get off my page
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