[Not being in a body that reflects how they see themselves.
That's something he's going to...not examine right now. He feels like it isn't an uncommon experience on the peninsula -- many people are likely not at home in their bodies here. He happens to be one of them.
But that's not what they're discussing.]
Not in so many words, but I'm following. You're talking about people who live as a gender they weren't born as. It's far from unknown -- there are several instances throughout history that we know of, and likely even more that we never found out about!
[He pieces it together with the tools he's got, gesturing with the glass of wine to punctuate his point.]
Expressing their authentic selves, then, means that if other people know their body doesn't match how they want to live, they face a real risk of violent retribution, due to religious fanaticism or other repulsion.
cw dysphoria and well meaning but clumsy language about transgender people
That's something he's going to...not examine right now. He feels like it isn't an uncommon experience on the peninsula -- many people are likely not at home in their bodies here. He happens to be one of them.
But that's not what they're discussing.]
Not in so many words, but I'm following. You're talking about people who live as a gender they weren't born as. It's far from unknown -- there are several instances throughout history that we know of, and likely even more that we never found out about!
[He pieces it together with the tools he's got, gesturing with the glass of wine to punctuate his point.]
Expressing their authentic selves, then, means that if other people know their body doesn't match how they want to live, they face a real risk of violent retribution, due to religious fanaticism or other repulsion.
[Yes? Has he got it?]