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There's a class of non-binary-identified women who use it as a coping mechanism for rape or sexual assault, like they don't want other people to perceive them as a woman anymore because they want to escape from the problems being female has caused, and I can't convince myself whether that's subtly sexist or just counterproductive.

The ones I've met are often either lesbian or bisexual and terrified of men. They've internalized that being born female means there's something horribly, horribly wrong with them, that they're going to keep being punished for it their whole lives, and that they're powerless to fix. So, like, super-relatable. It's like they're self-centered but not narcissistic, because they've been taught to ruminate on how wrong and awful and broken they are. They respect other people's femininity but hate their own. They almost get it---I've seen many de-transition and peak---but need time and therapy to accept their femininity.

I guess that's internalized sexism against the self.