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When gender authenticity costs cultural connection

I left home to live authentically as a trans woman but now I cannot go back for funerals and I am watching my culture disappear from my life.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

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The price of living truthfully can include exile from the very communities that shaped one's foundational sense of self.

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