My body was “perfect”. I still had gender dysphoria.
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16 min readSep 28, 2017
TW: Eating Disorders, Body Image, Gender Dysphoria
For most of my adult life, I’ve had a “perfect” body, but not one that corresponds to my gender. Being told all my life that my body is “perfect and feminine” has fucked me up. It exacerbated my eating disorder. It made me feel self-conscious and suspicious of all positive attention I got. As a compliment, it felt uncanny…