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View submission: Do non-binary identities reenforce gender stereotypes?
But notice how you have to frame this in a way that's simply not possible: "if you woke up in a man's body tomorrow" would never happen.
This is like saying someone freaking out over waking up one morning completely blind is the same as someone who's been blind since birth: the former has had X number of years with sight and is now in unfamiliar territory, and the latter does not know anything else.
Anyone would freak out by waking up in a different body: shorter versus taller, deaf versus hearing, in a wheelchair versus able to get up and run a marathon.
But if that body has been there this whole time, in what way would anyone internalize a sense of "wrongness" other than by comparing himself to others and thinking "I wish I was that"? And then how does that mean his body is wrong instead of him being jealous, e.g. "I wish I was taller" or "I wish I had blue eyes"?
How can someone be uncomfortable with something that has been true his or her entire life, and when it's simply not possible to actually know what it is to feel anything else?
Comment by Particular_Daikon127 at 15/01/2025 at 05:54 UTC*
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is your argument here that people can't be uncomfortable with a physical state they've known their entire life? i know plenty of people who have been fat since childhood who wish they were thin. plenty of people hate physical traits they have had their entire lives. plenty of skinny dudes are uncomfortable with their body and wish they were jacked. feeling discomfort with a trait you've always had isn't some uniquely trans thing. "i am uncomfortable with a trait of my physical appearance and internal sense of self. i will change that trait in the ways i am able to" is a thought process/act of development countless people undergo