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[–]peakingatthemomentTranssexual (natal male), HSTS[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

I don’t think trans people are a discrete group necessarily before people transition, especially with kids. It would have helped me a lot more to have more exposure to gender nonconformity at a young age than it would have to see trans people. If someone needs to transition to be okay, they will. The only thing pushing visibility does is treat it like an identity people can assume and the explosion of people “finding out they are trans” by acting out the identity on the internet or through social networks illustrates that I feel like.

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There is far more depictions of gender nonconformity in media than there are of trans people

[–]peakingatthemomentTranssexual (natal male), HSTS[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I don’t think that’s true at all.

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Probably because gender nonconformity has been so normalized for you that you don’t notice it as much as portrayals of trans people. Do you consider depictions of women with short hair and men with long hair as gender nonconformity for instance?

[–]peakingatthemomentTranssexual (natal male), HSTS[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yeah, I don’t consider those gender nonconformity.

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Do you believe that people today do not get pushback for such hairstyles by people whom view them as less attractive on people of their gender?