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    5. erasmus_phillo on

      I have always been a cisgender guy throughout my whole life, that has never changed. But I did have an incident earlier in my childhood that I would say is a somewhat close approximation to what I imagine gender dysphoria feels like for most trans people.

      When I was a kid, I was part of a temple group that was staging a play. I had a fairly major role in that play (I was playing a young Krishna I believe? It was so long ago, I was 9 years old, so it’s been more than two decades). Since we were performing on the big stage, I had to wear makeup for the play.

      When doing a rehearsal for the play, an older woman in the group put makeup on my face. I thought I would be fine with it in theory, but when I looked at myself in the mirror…. I HATED IT.

      I hated it so much that I begged her to take it off (she refused ofc). The reason why I hated it is because it gave me a more feminine presentation. I hated that it made me look more like a girl. It took me a while to sort-of get used to it, but even when I made my peace with it I still wanted to claw my face off. It was a deeply surreal experience that I’d never felt since.

      I was actually so relieved when I finally got that makeup off my face because I would look more like a boy again… I dreaded putting it back on again for the main performance though

      It is easy for me to imagine that this is what trans people feel like in the bodies they were born into every day

    7. ContributionOk5542 on

      Next malaria drive I want to create an autoreply so that every variation of “this sub said” and “r/neoliberal told me” gets the goomba fallacy image

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