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Gender Dysphoria = Distress about the s*x and/or gender assigned at birth. This is generally split into two types, physical gender dysphoria and social gender dysphoria. Physical dysphoria is about how you experience your own body and the problems with how your body looks/functions. Social dysphoria is about how others perceive you and respond to who you are, based on their gender assumptions. I don’t get much social dysphoria these days, as people usually ‘see’ me as a girl, but the physical dysphoria can flare up from time to time, and it always catches me off guard. It’s the physical side that’s always the hardest for me…
When Jason came over to us, I was still laughing with Elliot. But as my heart slowed down, and as my need to touch Elliot became stronger, I knew I was in tr
