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[–]peakingatthemomentTranssexual (natal male), HSTS 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I guess I feel like femininity or masculinity isn’t always a choice. Maybe you don’t believe that and I think we’ve talked about it before. So like, in my thinking, it doesn’t matter how much society praises masculinity, if that’s just not how you are made, you aren’t going to be able to fit.

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I don’t disagree. My point is to if society tells you masculinity is good and femininity is bad you would start hating femininity if it was effecting you not your body. That’s why I don’t think it’s something being socially shaped.

[–]peakingatthemomentTranssexual (natal male), HSTS 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I feel like different people might deal with it differently.

Personally, I don’t think I could have hated femininity because it felt like a part of me and I liked how I was. I don’t think that means that liking my femininity made me hate my body, but it feels easier to hate your body than yourself, if that makes sense. I like myself (still do).