• spiderwort
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    7 months ago

    Which one is a trans girl, a girl who turns into a boy or a boy who turns into a girl?

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      7 months ago

      trans girls are people who were previously thought to be boys and figured out that they are a girl later.

      Also, I’m choosing to word it differently than you did and I want to explain why. For many trans people, it’s not so much a process of “turning into another gender”, but more a process of “figuring out what gender you actually are”. They might say that they have been a girl all along, but neither them nor people around them knew. So saying that they were a boy before (instead of saying they were thought to be a boy before) could be considered hurtful.

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        7 months ago

        Yes yes, I’m sure their personal narrative is positively riveting. But I refer to what the rest of the universe sees, obviously.