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am i allowed to page to my own posts?
having just read the Trans 101 thread, i'd respectfully like to ask people with an interest in/knowledge of trans and/or intersex issues to respond (if so inclined) to the thread in Books on Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex, particularly this bit of my post:
One thing that struck me as odd was that there seemed to be no real indication (to me, at least) that Cal/Calliope's own gender identity was as anything other than a girl-attracted-to-girls before she read her diagnosis file - so that, to me, hir re-identification as a boy seemed to be based on nothing more than finding out ze had a Y chromosome... admittedly, all the intersex people I have known were raised as boys but are now female-identified, but all of them, when living as the "wrong" gender, were deeply unhappy (to the point of near-constant suicidal feelings) until able to live as their preferred gender, so i felt i had to suspend disbelief on that bit... would be interested in the perspectives of any trans men or male-identified intersex people here on that...
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