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Why performed femininity complicates authentic gender identity

I am starting to realize that my femininity was largely performed for male approval and I do not know who I am as a woman without that audience.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

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The entanglement of your gender expression with external validation is obscuring your authentic relationship to your identity.

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