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

I feel like social dysphoria is discomfort comes from existing in the world being seen as your sex. Some of it is connected to physical dysphoria because it might remind you that your body isn’t what you feel like it’s supposed to be. If you have deep body issues, it can just make them worse. This is probably like the official truscum answer lol.

I don’t think it’s totally separate from gender norms though because those get imposed on you because of your apparent sex too. If you aren’t what people expect for someone of your sex, you can suffer a lot of harassment and people aren’t comfortable with you. Especially if you ever passed as the other sex, you might know that so many things about you that cause problems for you aren’t problems if people see you as the other sex because you fit better. It’s not fair or right that roles are imposed on us, especially children, but it’s still how it is many times and it’s really hard to not fit like that. You can’t even feel safe if that’s how people are seeing you. Not that their aren’t safety concerns the other way too, so it may just be because of trauma. Dismantling gender norms would help with this type of social dysphoria at least. I hope this made sense!