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Should I Feel Guilty For Being Afraid To Be A Woman?

Started by Tristyn, February 14, 2016, 06:20:55 AM

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Rawb

A few months after I came to terms with being trans, I put on one of those female chest things as part of a cosplay. I managed to wear it just long enough to take a picture and then NOPE. I took it off so harshly that it ripped and threw it across the room. It's not a hatred of the gender, I think, it's more that female things (to me anyways) represent all the wasted years filled with misery and confusion. I don't hate ladies, I hate that I had to be one for a while.
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WolfNightV4X1

Quote from: Rawb on February 18, 2016, 06:03:57 PM
A few months after I came to terms with being trans, I put on one of those female chest things as part of a cosplay. I managed to wear it just long enough to take a picture and then NOPE. I took it off so harshly that it ripped and threw it across the room. It's not a hatred of the gender, I think, it's more that female things (to me anyways) represent all the wasted years filled with misery and confusion. I don't hate ladies, I hate that I had to be one for a while.

The very same. I hated 'typical femininity' and girly girls for the longest time. I hated them and feminine things and most girls and the idea of girls.

Then when I distanced myself from that I realized, well, its not them I hated, its me. Im not them. They are them and thats okay.

But Im me.


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Kylo

Yeah, don't mistake the feelings for misogyny because more often than not they're not.

If you were locked in a room 24 hours of every day for years and wanted to be let out, chances are you'd come to hate that room and everything in it. Possibly locked rooms in general by association. In a normal situation, you'd probably not hate any room or ever give one a bad thought. Get let out of that room eventually and you'll be able to see it for what it is, a room, that isn't your prison.

My body is like that room and I hate it. But I know when I can change that situation I won't have any reason to direct my disgust at anything feminine. If anything as time passes and I get further and further away from that which is feminine myself, I appreciate and respect it in others more.

No matter what people say it's clear that there is a gender in the mind of people, it's not chosen, it's not a social construct that can be un-constructed by talking about it to yourself and happily lived with, and it's important to a person's self esteem to be treated appropriately. In some ways modern thinking about gender has made it more difficult to realize this fact. This idea that everyone wants to be treated according to these ideas is actually harmful.
"If the freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."
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