Some cis actors who have lived cross gender for a while to prepare for a trans or cross-cast role have described pretty severe psychological effects from just the effect of just doing that, and IIRC one who wore a binder and a packer to play a male role found doing so just for a day of shooting at a time wound up pretty distressing.
I have not run across this! I should like very much to read their accounts. Can you point me in a direction? I'll search, but I don't know what exactly I should be searching on here. Are there famous examples?
I confess, this entire line of argument rubs me the wrong way. "mostly about cis people in another thread greatly underestimating the effects of having a body that doesn't fit one's gender" - we don't know that, do we? We don't know if there's some swath of people, possibly large, who are fine with received/assigned gender, and will adjust contentedly wherever they're dropped in gender space. We don't know if what makes trans people trans is (in part) that they are people for whom gender is more psychologically important, and thus for whom having a mismatch is much more devastating.
One of the problems here is that, as with all minorities, it's the minorty status of trans people that's marked, and therefore problematicized and studied and regarded as in need of explanation. Consequently, cis gender development is woefully understudied. People make assumptions about what gender is like for cis people, to the effect of cis people are just like trans people, only having won the body/gender assignment lottery. But I don't know that's true, or to what extent it's true.
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I have not run across this! I should like very much to read their accounts. Can you point me in a direction? I'll search, but I don't know what exactly I should be searching on here. Are there famous examples?
I confess, this entire line of argument rubs me the wrong way. "mostly about cis people in another thread greatly underestimating the effects of having a body that doesn't fit one's gender" - we don't know that, do we? We don't know if there's some swath of people, possibly large, who are fine with received/assigned gender, and will adjust contentedly wherever they're dropped in gender space. We don't know if what makes trans people trans is (in part) that they are people for whom gender is more psychologically important, and thus for whom having a mismatch is much more devastating.
One of the problems here is that, as with all minorities, it's the minorty status of trans people that's marked, and therefore problematicized and studied and regarded as in need of explanation. Consequently, cis gender development is woefully understudied. People make assumptions about what gender is like for cis people, to the effect of cis people are just like trans people, only having won the body/gender assignment lottery. But I don't know that's true, or to what extent it's true.