Jess👾Mar 12
Cis people have dysphoria too. They're just allowed and encouraged to do shit about it.
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@JessTheUnstill i understand the point but I'm not really sure it's the same thing really...
Show threadBernie Luckily Does ItMar 13
@sophteis @JessTheUnstill There's a theory that's gone around the Fedi that a lot but not all of gender dysphoria is actually cPTSD from gender trauma. I'm convinced that cis people get the other components of gender dysphoria but not the cPTSD symptoms because they usually don't have gender related trauma.
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@BernieDoesIt @JessTheUnstill
interesting theory. i definitely think it's borderline impossible to be trans in this world and not develop cptsd in some form.
Mar 13 at 6:40pmWeb
Show threadBernie Luckily Does ItMar 17

@sophteis @JessTheUnstill I'm probably as close to that as it gets. My parents never had gendered expectations and told me to ignore anyone who did, and didn't care if I did gender non-conforming things. I rarely did those things in public and didn't get anything major when I did. I'm nonbinary enough that it didn't bother me to be called my AGAB. I really don't have any gender trauma.

But I still have cPTSD because of other reasons.