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Transgender Women and the Patriarchy
I was born biologically male.
From my earliest recollections, I felt an internal female sense of self but that was buried under strict male socialization and programing plus heavy doses of natural testosterone. I was forced to add my own deep wall of denial in order to survive a lifelong repression of my gender.
I suffer from gender dysphoria, a medical symptom caused by a gender incongruence, the conflict between my physical sex and my mental gender. I have been clinically diagnosed with this condition by multiple doctors: medical, psychological and psychiatric. I am satisfied that they are reliable professional authorities. My own desperate and exhaustive independent research agrees with their diagnosis.
The accepted name for someone who is gender incongruent is that they are transgender. Further, to differentiate my condition from those that are cisgender female, someone whose sex and gender match, I can be defined as transgender female or simply as a transgender woman.
I will not waste time on defining what is a “woman”. I am simply satisfied that I am a transgender woman.
Let’s assume that I am not subjecting myself to years of painful psychological analysis, public and family rejection, significant hormonal chemistry changes, painful facial electrolysis, major facial…
