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When transition creates complicated relationships with past experience

I pass as male now but I grew up as a girl and sometimes I feel like I'm pretending not to know things about periods and sexism that I definitely know.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Moving between genders means carrying knowledge from one world that you can't acknowledge in another.

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