Added NSFW because the first picture is this brave “non-binary” lesbian topless at a public beach.

By the time I learned about “genderqueer” and “nonbinary,” I had already put too much weight into the “woman” box of my identity to consider seriously if those labels applied to me. I was gender nonconforming, a tomboy, and later in queer culture, a lesbian butch. That was it. Nothing but a woman, even though I could not define what “woman” meant to me. It wasn’t until I was well into my 30s, isolated in a pandemic and left alone with my thoughts, that I finally allowed myself to admit that I’m not a woman. I’m nonbinary. The thought had been lurking in the back of mind for at least five years, but admitting it to myself and coming out publicly felt far too disruptive. I was too busy, too involved in too much stuff to reset and relabel and reconfigure my body and my relationships to a new identity.

Why do we pretend this is not clearly mental Illness?

Without the disruption to my daily life that was the pandemic, I probably could have continued on presenting as and calling myself a woman. It chafed, but I’d become an expert at distracting myself. Plus, I have a career I like, a friend group I deeply enjoy, and a chosen and biological family who love me and would continue loving me no matter who I am. Could I have stayed a “she”? Sure. But I wouldn’t have been happy.

This is called coping after the fact. “She” clearly knows she would never appeal to anyone desirable so instead she opts for “happiness” instead of working to be desirable. This is the death of positive female behaviors to pretend to be a chubby it for the rest of its life.

Amid the current onslaught of anti-transgender legislation across the United States, attention has focused on how harmful it is for trans people — including transgender children, who often vocalize their identity from a young age — to be denied proper medical care for their gender dysphoria. In study after study, medical transition has been shown to alleviate dysphoria, to essentially “cure” the comorbidities associated with being trans. Without access to proper care and the ability to transition to the correct gender, we know many trans and nonbinary people experience depression and suicidal ideation. I have numerous friends in the trans community who have either attempted suicide or experienced ongoing, unresolved ideation, often for years, before they could get the medical care they needed. Some, like Terri Bruce, a transgender man who was suing the state of South Dakota for refusing to cover gender transition care in his state health plan, don’t make it through the fight.

Again with the bs statistics, here’s three irrefutable facts.1. Trans suicide rates pre and post op are higher than any other “identity” in existence and closely track schizophrenia suicide rates. 2. Children put on puberty blockers have a zero reversal rate versus an 80-95% chance of gender reversal with no puberty blockers. 3. No study has ever shown transition surgery alone improves mental health or suicidal ideation.

On April 8, I went under the knife to get top surgery. I’d always hated my chest, even when I viewed myself as a woman, and after I came out as nonbinary, I realized I could finally do something about it with gender-affirming surgery. In 2021, I began the process of getting a masculinizing mastectomy approved by insurance and jumping through the medical hoops to transition. I woke up in the recovery room that Friday to the nurse removing the oxygen mask from my face and asking how I was doing. I reached up and patted the bandages over my chest. “Huh, it really happened,” I thought to myself. “They’re gone.”

They’re clearly not

I recall thinking at the time that if G-d had called me to be a woman, then I better learn what that means.

Interesting that she writes G-d. Meaning she is Jewish. (Not immediately clear from "Dianna Anderson".)

I am by no means of the obsessive "oh no teh joos" types, but it is very interesting how many trans are Jewish.

EDIT: WELL SCRATCH THAT "In the context of my evangelical upbringing, that meant letting men take the lead "

Not sure I've ever seen a Christian write "G-d" before. Loser.

ew

Dianna E. Anderson. Quite a notorious figure, in more ways than one.

“I actually have a Master’s in gender studies from Oxford University. https://t.co/lZ9Q4Vr3Mk” link - archive.org - archive.today

poor girl.

🥴🤢🤮