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Old 2013-06-25, 05:04   Link #29054
Shay
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Liverpool
Age: 42
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Originally Posted by synaesthetic View Post
^ This.

Our brains are "gendered" to an extent, and therefore, you can quite literally have a female brain in a male body or a male brain in a female body. This happens a lot more often than people actually realize, but societal pressures ensure that the vast majority of people with mismatched brains and bodies don't ever speak up.

Or they just kill themselves. The suicide rate among transgender and genderqueer individuals is much, much higher than the general population and it's not at all difficult to understand why. There are tons of people on this planet who seem to derive sick pleasure out of tormenting those who are different than they are.
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