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Detransition, Baby

Torrey Peters · 2021

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What this book knows

Trans womanhood is lived through desire, grief, and the relentless negotiation of what a body and a family can mean.

Sex: Primary
Work: Present
Learning: Present
Religion: Absent

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embodiment

I've worked to get comfortable with the idea that I have a penis, but that it's a woman's penis. I'm pretty much there, mentally.
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Amy's whole problem pre-transition had been a complete inability to ever let anyone far enough past her defenses to glimpse any vulnerability.
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self-and-identity

The first year of transition was about learning how much you've lied to yourself. How unreliable your own self-assessments were.
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It wasn't her fault that people paid finance douches millions and no one wanted to hire an uneducated transsexual.
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grief

She says it again, phrased slightly differently, I have lost my child. Is it grief she feels? Is grief even a feeling to which she is entitled?
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Yes, grief. The loss of a baby... I haven't memorized the stages of grief but isn't there one called bargaining?
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