Gender

[sarars]

I've started reading Whipping Girl: Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano. I'm not that far into it yet, but I like it so far. I think this paragraph is nicely articulated

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[terry_terrible]

. This gender dissonance can manifest itself in a number of ways. Sometimes it felt like stress or anxiousness, which led to maratho battles with insomnia. Other times, it surfaced as jealousy or anger at other people who seemed to enjoy taking their gender for granted. But most of all, it fel like sadness to me--a sort of gender sadness--a chronic and persistent grief over the fact that I felt wrong in my body"

This is about the best descriptions of GD around in my book.