I Have Gender Identity Issues
I am pleased to have opened discussion on this. A lot of ideas are based on ignorance. Some on belief. Over to you.
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LukeTheDuke · M
I had never given this issue a single thought In my life. I had advertised for a flatmate years ago and the person I took in was a trans woman. Living with this person opened my eyes to the ignorance people have on this issue. It was only after she moved in that she told me that she had gone, partially, through reassignment; had she not said I would never have known. Not for a second in any of the time we spent as flat mates was their any behaviour or attitude that would remotely make me think of this person as anything other than a woman. It taught me a great deal. Over the many hours that we spoke I was awakened to the issues behind gender identity and learnt so much from our discussions.
@LukeTheDuke What exactly did you learn in those hours? Full disclosure, I'm not in support of gender reassignment. I think people need to accept the body they were born in. But maybe hearing your story could enlighten me more about the subject.
@LukeTheDuke I've never taken their illness lightly. All forms of dysphoria should be taken seriously. Mental illness is no joke