Ask Anything on Sidechat | How can someone “feel” like another gender? Like if I’ve existed in a gender roll my whole life, how can I know what it feels like to be the other gender? How could I even recognize how the other gender feels internally or physically? Genuine question

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How can someone “feel” like another gender? Like if I’ve existed in a gender roll my whole life, how can I know what it feels like to be the other gender? How could I even recognize how the other gender feels internally or physically? Genuine question

Anonymous 6d

gender dysphoria is a mental illness despite how offended people get, it was a whole topic on my upper division nursing exam for mental health

Anonymous 6d

I’m not transphobic. If anything, trans-curious. Just trying to understand it

Anonymous 6d

it’s been explained to me more like they just don’t feel like themselves, and they do feel like someone else, and that feeling is how they imagine a woman feels. that’s what my friend told me who has gender dysphoria

Anonymous 6d

welll it’s not so much as they feel like another gender as that’s literally what they are. you can tell when your gender doesn’t match how people perceive you pretty easy tbh based on how you act and socialize vs how ppl seem to expect you to

Anonymous 6d

For me personally I think that changing ur hormones and genitalia is weird but not in the way u think. I’m not transphobic I just believe gender is a construct and that gender roles don’t matter. Like drag queens for instance I love them they aren’t trans they just wanna dress how they wanna and act they way they wanna. I still support trans people and doing what they wanna do tho

Anonymous

#3 6d

But gender as a construct changes over time. How do I know if I feel like another gender, or if I just want be different from my era’s traditional gender norms? I understand they feel they are

Anonymous

#3 6d

If gender is a category we are placed in at birth based on our sex, and someone feels they should be in a different gender category because they feel differently than their AGAB, Couldn’t they just stay part of their gender but change their behavior?

Anonymous

OP 6d

their behavior wouldn’t change what you mean is probably gender expression and in theory maybe but society has a hard time accepting someone’s gender unless they physically look like the sex associated with it and that treatment can be internalized and distressing

Anonymous

OP 6d

yea but again it’s not a feeling it’s just what you are it’s an identity. your gender is developed through socialization in childhood so idk how you’d be socialized as a different gender when you’re socialized now?

Anonymous

#4 6d

well like drag queens are just that and the difference is they’re not necessarily actually women. that’s the difference between gender identity and gender expression. what your gender actually is vs the way you express it. if your gender expression isn’t super far to the masc or femme side transitioning physically can be a good way to feel validated gender wise

Anonymous

#1 6d

Well yeah ppl use that to make it seem like being trans is an illness, whereas the cure to gender dysphoria is transitioning