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Kind of makes sense but not really? Not in an I disagree way but really more me not being able to fully understand your experience because it’s so radically different from my own. Your feelings around gender sound very similar to my partner who is AFAB and identifies as transmasc and nonbinary though not exactly the same. I do think that’s a better framework and captures all who are in our community’s experiences than what’s put forth by WPATH. It’s just a shame the current healthcare systems we work within doesn’t allow for such a framework.
I guess my point was I would caution folks who identify as cis from claiming to have experienced gender dysphoria. I think often cis people misunderstand dysphoria as simply being unhappy with certain body parts? Which is kind of a part of it but to me doesn’t really capture the multitude of complex feelings and experiences that encompass gender dysphoria. This was a topic I brought up in another post, how hard it is to convey what gender dysphoria is and feels like in a relatable way to cis people. It really kind of lacks a sense of tangibility that something like same-sex marriage has that makes it easy to relate and empathize with as an issue but honestly that’s probably true to most marginalized experiences to at least some extent.
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