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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:24am on 2014-01-17

"Existing halfway between genders is stressful. Imagine for a moment if you woke up one morning with the wrong factory equipment. Most people can't, but Chloë Sevigny, who played a transgender assassin on 'Hit & Miss,' found wearing a prosthetic penis unbearable. 'I cried every day when they put it on,' she said in an interview. This, for a prosthetic that she knows isn't real, and comes off when the the day is over.

"When lesbian journalist Norah Vincent tried to live as a man as a social experiment, it took less than a year before the strain caused her to have herself voluntarily committed.

"When straight, healthy people try and pull off what transgender people do on a daily basis (live in the wrong gender), the strain is enough to make them suicidal too."

-- Brynn Tannehill, "Myths About Gender Confirmation Surgery", 2013-12-08

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