Transgender Body Parts: How Many of Our Bits Need Retooling?

A personal perspective

Emma Holiday
Prism & Pen
Published in
4 min readApr 20, 2024

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If you are transgender and actively transitioning, you may feel that many parts of your body need to be adjusted so that your body can be aligned with your gender as much as possible. Re-tooling what you may see as your physical birth defects takes a lot of commitment, time, pain, and, sadly, money.

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Emma Holiday
Prism & Pen

After decades of denial I finally answered the question “What’s wrong with me?” The answer is “Nothing”. I am transgender and I am OK.