'The arguments in Rowling’s essay are sinister. They paint transgender women as a threat, and depict transgender men as confused, naïve victims of a harmful ideology.'
Throughout my teenage years, I struggled with depression, anxiety, and a number of related issues, many of which were body-focused. I battled eating disorders; I developed trichotillomania when I started to pull out my long hair; and I went through phases of over-exercising in the secret pursuit of abs and slimmer hips.
But again, while her position is uninformed, it is not unusual. I remember having a particularly raw conversation with my dad about my plans to transition. He told me that I wasn’t transgender, that I wasn’t dysphoric.AdvertisementPeople thought that I was trying to distance myself from all things feminine, to redefine who I was as a way of detaching myself from the pain I had been through.
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