A selfie of a brunette trans women with shoulder length hair and a v neck top

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   Natasha Jay :mastodon: (natasha_jay@tech.lgbt)'s status on Tuesday, 30-May-2023 21:41:03 JST Natasha Jay :mastodon:

   Gender Dysphoria: I deliberately stopped using this term or dysphoric (whenever possible) a while back. I have been feeling as a trans woman how loaded the term still is with medical diagnosis and mental health connotations. A term of our oppression, a phrase of 'symbolic violence' as Judith Butler might say. A weak dilution of 'gender identity disorder'

   If by rejecting this term *at every level* outright I lose my ability to get a UK Gender Recognition Certificate, so be it. I keep my pride, my full trans agency and that - for me - is far more priceless

   Gender dysphoria, no I don't have

   Gender? Now *this* I have, in spades! :Fire_Trans:

   Sitting in a coffee shop as is my way ...
   #Musings #TransMusings #Trans #TransRightsUK #TransRights

   Cw: selfie, full eye contact