Re: https://witches.town/users/SoniEx2/updates/469354

I don't feel like my parts are wrong "because folks insists they are" and the implications there is one of the most disgusting takes I've heard in a while. It's absolutely insulting to hear someone insist that all of the pain I'VE felt would just go away if people "stopped telling me that my body is wrong".

This is a prime example of like

hey,
if this is your lived experience and that's how you feel about yourself that's like… fine. But don't start assuming that this is how everyone experiences things, else you say insultingly generalized things based on your own biased experience that makes me snarly as fuck.

@Oneironott I think part of it is that gender and dysphoria is mired in epistemology. So having language makes it easier to process and explain feelings. Sometimes, I wonder if you could describe gender as the language you use to explain your relationship to your body's assigned sex, your presentation, and sense of self. Rather than some kind of psychological construct that exists deep within us.

Trans people have complicated relationships with those things, so our language gets complicated. Cis people find it confusing because they don't need much language to explain their gender. I admit this is half baked.