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To be sure, I'd be a woman regardless of patriarchal culture. I think this part of myself is soul-deep.

However, those 17 years served as a rocket-powered source of trauma which drove me forward into the arms of my real self with elemental force.

And I feel no shame over this. I understand things that I might not have were I a cis girl during those 17 years.

And I judge the world's lust for patriarchy and brutality accordingly.

What I know shapes who I am and the woman I am.