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View submission: Trans Women, Male Privilege, and the Intersectionality of Patriarchal Oppression
They are sort of intrinsically linked--it's one thing to know in the abstract that your body is going to look a certain way when you grow up, it's another thing to have those changes forced upon you. Especially when it hurts and the changes keep coming for years and years. Like I never had a problem with the idea that women grew breasts, I had a big problem when *I* grew them because I didn't have them before so I shouldn't now either because now I don't look like me anymore (admittedly very childish logic, but we were kids after all). My best friend (a cis woman) used a thick sports bra to hide hers basically until college because she hated them so much. This also inevitably links back to the discussion about cis girls being sexualized at a young age too, and it can be difficult to tease apart the discomfort of having one's body suddenly change and disrupt their self-image from the discomfort of seeing the way those budding secondary sex characteristics apparently signal men to treat her differently. It's like being betrayed by your body two-fold.
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