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"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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Wow.

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When I was 5, my long blonde hair, which I loved, was cut off into a short page-boy cut because my mother was tired of taking care of it. I cried. For the next 3 years, people constantly called me a boy because I was a tomboy, wearing jeans and t-shirts. I even looked like a boy in a dress when I dressed up for church on Sunday. I *hated* it. While I didn't want to be a girly girly and wear dresses and play Barbies, I did want to be recognized as the correct gender. When I finally got big pink glasses in 3rd grade, people started calling me a girl again. This makes me especially empathetic towards transpeople because on some level, I know how it feels to be constantly called the wrong gender.

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