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When couples navigate gender transition and conflicting views on bodily identity

My wife and I have been trying to figure out how to navigate my gender transition together and we're realizing we have completely different ideas about what changes to my body mean for our relationship and our future. We both want to support each other but we're not even using the same language to talk about identity and physical authenticity.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Partners are discovering fundamental differences in how they understand the relationship between physical form and authentic selfhood during transition.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Body as identity — physical self-concept?”

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