Imagine that as a child you thought you had been born in the body of the wrong gender. If you were biologically male, in your mind you really thought of yourself as female. Likewise, if you were born in a girl’s body, you thought that you were actually a boy.
Yes, you were probably more interested in children’s role-playing games more often associated with the opposite gender as well, but the issue went much deeper than that. It was your core identity that was at stake. You knew that you were the other sex, at least in all ways except for the reproductive organs of your body.
You felt this way during childhood, but nobody seemed to understand or accept this about you. But you were dressed in the clothing of your biological gender and expected to participate in the activities stereotypically associated with it as well. Imagine that as your body matured in adolescence, you hated your
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