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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 4 fun1 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 4 fun -  (2 children)

Being trans is about dysphoria. If you have so little dysphoria that you could call yourself a man without feeling absolutely disgusted or dysphoric, we aren’t the same thing.

while some trans people aren't

The only trans people who aren’t dysphoric at all are fully stealth trans people with perfect transitions. And they used to be. If someone has never been dysphoric they aren’t trans.

[–]SnowAssMan[S] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

If someone has never been dysphoric they aren’t trans

This line of logic will always backfire on you, like this:

If someone has:

• male biology (i.e. male sex)

• male socialisation (i.e. male gender identity)

• male privilege (i.e. experiences transphobia, not misogyny)

they aren't a woman.

See what I mean?

Dysphoria is arbitrarily chosen by you as a measure of trans status (while you continually & conveniently ignore the fact & implications that dysphoria isn't unique to trans people). You could just as easily have chosen 'transphobia', like this: Debbie Hayton experiences/has experienced transphobia, therefore she is a trans-woman. Transphobia is a more universal experience of trans-women than dysphoria is.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

It’s not arbitrary. It’s what being trans is.