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Not Being Affirmed Saved My Life

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Pear Joseph
Sep 25, 2024
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I was around five years old when I first told my mother I was a “girl trapped in a boy’s body.” Some of my earliest memories are of me talking to a therapist about why I felt that way. This was around the year 2000, long before there was much acceptance in society for men dressing or acting in a gender non-conforming way.

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