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lolonurse

@badken @tillybridges
Don't forget this person chose to live this life, mostly because it was giving her the exact scholastic/educational opportunities she had her sights set on. Her BA, MA & PhD, and research, papers, books & classes all went totally her way. She was a major asset to the university, as she set up 2 new syllabuses for the school to offer! She also was "allowed" to come out to her classes & department, and she started a women's study department.

24 Nov 2023 at 3:28 | Wall-to-wall | Open on ohai.social
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K. P. Badertscher

@lolonurse @tillybridges Sure, but the whole family situation must have sucked. Glad that’s all behind her.

24 Nov 2023 at 3:41 | Open on mastodon.social
Tilly Bridges

@badken @lolonurse not to mention that living with dysphoria is, in fact, painful and torturous

24 Nov 2023 at 3:54 | Open on mastodon.social
lolonurse

@tillybridges @badken
She was totally committed, scientific & pragmatic. Wore men's clothes during work hours, slowly decreased the iconic beard/mustache, began hormones & women's aerobics, and after a year, came to the new school year with a new first name, gender-appropriate clothes, a voice coach, behavior/mannerisms coach... and then the surgeries. Talk about pain - her face peeled back & the structure feminized. But she sure is happy!

24 Nov 2023 at 4:28 | Open on ohai.social
Tilly Bridges

@lolonurse @badken the pain of gender dysphoria has nothing to do with pain from surgeries

24 Nov 2023 at 4:36 | Open on mastodon.social
lolonurse

@tillybridges @badken
That's absolutely true. They are completely different.

24 Nov 2023 at 14:14 | Open on ohai.social
lolonurse

@badken @tillybridges
She did love her wife, has 2 great kids who got through their confusion & now have great relationships with her, and she's also now a grandma. 💗

24 Nov 2023 at 13:20 | Open on ohai.social
A-Dub

@lolonurse whereas i lived as an assumed girl/woman for 45 years, during which time i earned a BSc(Hons), a PhD, tenure, some prizes, etc, and then i transitioned. what those of us who are older had to do in our first incarnation wasn’t merely a choice, it was actually determined by the local level of societal cissexism/transphobia. e.g. there were zero services for trans children, youth, or young adults where i grew up.

24 Nov 2023 at 15:01 | Open on spore.social
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