Best Dysphoria Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I have been doomed to be a girl who must pass her earthly existence in a male body. How dreadful it is to a young woman to have a slight growth of hair on lip or cheeks ! Only one mark of the male ! How much more dreadful for a young woman to possess almost all the male anatomy as I do ! How I have bewailed my fate!”

Sadness Agony Transgender Trans Anatomy Gender Dysphoria Dysphoria Trans Women Transfemininity

Book:Autobiography of an Androgyne

Source: Autobiography of an Androgyne

“If you are vulnerable to gender issues, working or living at high altitudes may bring on Gender Dysphoria (GD).”

Living Gender Astronomy Vulnerable Tmt High Working Dysphoria Altitudes

Author:Steven Magee

“Hello high altitude astronomy, goodbye gender.”

Safety Gender Astronomy Osha Goodbye Altitude Hello High Hormone Dysphoria

Author:Steven Magee

“The gay pride celebration is part of the USA culture.”

Culture Society Pride Gay Gender Usa Celebration Lgbtq Changes Dysphoria

Author:Steven Magee

“I’m not sure how far he wandered; he wasn’t sure, either. It’s hard to pay attention to your surroundings when your mind is veiled with dysphoria.”

Depression Wandering Lost Time Dysphoria Children Of Dysphoria

Book:Children of Dysphoria: Book One Fall of Haven

Source: Children of Dysphoria: Book One Fall of Haven

“Obsessing over [Clint's own] gender would make him dysphoric, sacrificing the many labors it took to reach this dreamlike idyll where he can just be.”

Transgender Dysphoria Idyll

Book:American Teenager: How Trans Kids Are Surviving Hate and Finding Joy in a Turbulent Era

Source: American Teenager: How Trans Kids Are Surviving Hate and Finding Joy in a Turbulent Era

“Looking down, she became aware of the water, which was covered with a film of calcinous hard-water particles of dirt and soap, and of the body that was sitting in it, somehow no longer quite her own. All at once she was afraid that she was dissolving, coming apart layer by layer like a piece of cardboard in a gutter puddle.”

Anorexia Dysphoria Anorexia Nervosa Body Dysmorphic Disorder

Book:The Edible Woman

Source: The Edible Woman

“but if she truly wanted to experience discomfort, she should try being a closeted trans guy at a Catholic school.”

Transgender Gender Dysphoria Dysphoria Trans Man Ftm

Book:Flyboy

Source: Flyboy

“I was aware of approximately 50 high altitude workers histories during my time in astronomy. For 3 of those workers to be displaying Gender Dysphoria (GD) puts the rate at 6%. The rate is probably higher, as I suspect that some workers were hiding it.”

Gender Astronomy Osha Altitude Hiding Tmt High Dysphoria Displaying Gd

Author:Steven Magee

“I have the rate of Gender Dysphoria (GD) estimated at 6% of high altitude workers that I know disclosed the condition. I suspect the rate is higher due to some workers not disclosing it and the actual rate may be approximately 12%.”

Gender Astronomy Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt High Worker Dysphoria

Author:Steven Magee

“The dirty secrets of high altitude astronomy are unnaturally high solar radiation levels, Faraday cage sickness, man-made electromagnetic exposures, breathing industrial gas, oxygen starvation, organ damage, gastrointestinal problems, malnutrition, altered hormones, Gender Dysphoria (GD), shift work disorder, mental illness and occupational diseases.”

Gender Astronomy Dirty Osha Secrets Mental Diseases Occupational Shift Dysphoria

Author:Steven Magee

“How is your high altitude induced Gender Dysphoria (GD) working out for you?”

Disease Safety Gender Osha Altitude High Occupational Dysphoria Induced Gd

Author:Steven Magee

“The more I stare at my body, the more I hate it. It's the same feelings I had before I realized I'm nonbinary. Things just aren't where they're supposed to be, and I feel like I'm larger and smaller than myself at the same time. Like nothing adds up.”

Body Body Image Nonbinary Dysphoria

Book:I Wish You All the Best

Source: I Wish You All the Best

“They're expected to forget everything they knew about being anything other than what they're supposed to be.”

Belonging Dysphoria

Book:When the Moon Was Ours

Source: When the Moon Was Ours

“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.”

Self Awareness Gender Carpe Diem Transgender Gender Identity Body Awareness Dysphoria Maggie Nelson The Argonauts Living The Moment

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

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

“Not that I hate my body. There are just parts of it that aren't what they should be.”

Trans Dysphoria

Book:Between Perfect and Real

Source: Between Perfect and Real

“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

“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

“And I don't need to keep hiding myself, either.”

Fantasy Queer Transgender Dysphoria

Book:The Fae Keeper

Source: The Fae Keeper

“I still believed I could will my body to become what my mind knew it should be: free and strong as a coil of brass wire. My chest and belly felt swollen and full, and every movement reminded me of how wrong I felt. I moved slower. A chasm had opened between me and my skin, as though I were fumbling around in a too-big pair of gloves. The only words I had back then were for what I knew I wasn't—a girl. But how to explain this feeling that my body was a tracing of something else, and not all the lines matched up?”

Gender Trans Dysphoria Transmasc

Book:The Thirty Names of Night

Source: The Thirty Names of Night

“When I was a kid, I never wanted to leave the pool. I used to throw tantrums at the end of open swim. I told you it was because I loved swimming, because I wanted to feel like a dolphin, because I wanted to pretend for another five minutes to be a mermaid. Looking back, it wasn't that I wanted my body to feel magical; I wanted it to feel transparent.”

Dysphoria

Book:The Thirty Names of Night

Source: The Thirty Names of Night