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WTFGhost
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That was actually sort of like my epiphany moment about transfolk. I heard the "just learn to love your body" didn't work, but I didn't "get it", until one day, I was in a dream state, and I suddenly imagined if my body had tits, and a vulva.
Well, I am what they call "cis-gendered" which means, I was a boy, knew I was a boy, knew I had some "sissy" tendencies, but never questioned that I was a strange boy, who grew into a strange man. So, I would cuddle dolls or kittens, but I knew I was a boy who was "empathic," a word I didn't know at the time, but not a *girl*.
And in that moment, I realized I'd hate everyone who said "'Ghost, you're a woman; learn to love your body!" Because the truth, to me, was that I was a man - whatever that meant.
In that moment, I understood what it meant to be trans, as best as a non-trans person can. I couldn't easily define what made me a "man", whatever sex organs I'm showing, but I knew it was what I was, and I understood what a deep hole I'd be starting in, if I wanted society to accept me as something other than what my sex organs showed.
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That was actually sort of like my epiphany moment about transfolk. I heard the "just learn to love your body" didn't work, but I didn't "get it", until one day, I was in a dream state, and I suddenly imagined if my body had tits, and a vulva.
Well, I am what they call "cis-gendered" which means, I was a boy, knew I was a boy, knew I had some "sissy" tendencies, but never questioned that I was a strange boy, who grew into a strange man. So, I would cuddle dolls or kittens, but I knew I was a boy who was "empathic," a word I didn't know at the time, but not a *girl*.
And in that moment, I realized I'd hate everyone who said "'Ghost, you're a woman; learn to love your body!" Because the truth, to me, was that I was a man - whatever that meant.
In that moment, I understood what it meant to be trans, as best as a non-trans person can. I couldn't easily define what made me a "man", whatever sex organs I'm showing, but I knew it was what I was, and I understood what a deep hole I'd be starting in, if I wanted society to accept me as something other than what my sex organs showed.
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