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“It’s not possible to live twenty-four hours a day soaked in the immediate awareness of one’s sex. Gendered self-consciousness has, mercifully, a flickering nature.”

Book:Am I That Name?: Feminism And The Category Of Women In History

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Am I That Name?: Feminism And The Category Of Women In History

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“Dysphoria is that bitch who visits the family and wreaks havoc. Sometimes she plucks away, needling and poking, whispering doubts and lies and pulling at the threads of resolve. Sometimes she is in full-on assault mode, attacking the very core of belief, ego and confidence. Sometimes she lingers. Sometimes she disappears as rapidly as she appears, but not before she has darkened things, unsettled all and left a tumultuous mess.”

Depression Transgender Dysphoria Gender Transition

Book:She Said, She Said: Love, Loss and Living My New Normal

Source: She Said, She Said: Love, Loss and Living My New Normal

“Sidi, I ache inside. I yearn to fly away, to feel free in the light, in the dark. I don't ever want to come back.”

Dysphoria

Author:Raja alem

“It's the strangling feeling, like you've been buried alive and are struggling to breathe, like you don't exist. That the most important part of you is invisible and, thus, unreal. If people don't see me as a boy, then they don't see me at all.”

Dysphoria Transboy

Author:ZR Ellor

“...how much easier would it be to walk through the world without armor? How much lighter might I feel, if I didn't feel the need to put on some barrier all the time, some protective layer between me and everyone else? Not because I hate my body, but because I don't want to deal with anyone else's feelings about it. Maybe it'd be nice.”

Queer Transgender Dysphoria

Book:The Fae Keeper

Source: The Fae Keeper

“Gender Dysphoria (GD) in high altitude astronomy workers was occurring as low as 2,423m (7,949ft).”

Safety Workers Gender Astronomy Osha Altitude High Dysphoria Gd Occurring

Author:Steven Magee

“I became aware during my time in high altitude astronomy that some workers would develop Gender Dysphoria (GD).”

Safety Workers Gender Astronomy Osha Altitude High Develop Dysphoria Gd

Author:Steven Magee

“What drains a man's energy the most? Indecision.”

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Author:Saroj Aryal

“We are poison women, Diane, because our bodies do all turn what enters them into poison, and we make poison and spread poison, because we are sadness itself. There is no way for us not to be that.”

Dysphoria Trans Women

Book:Summer Fun

Source: Summer Fun

“I like my body. It's my body. There's nothing wrong with it. And, yet...”

Queer Transgender Dysphoria

Book:The Fae Keeper

Source: The Fae Keeper

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