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When family expectations clash with kothi identity

My family keeps asking when I will get married to a woman and have children but I am kothi and cannot keep pretending to be someone I am not.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The tension between authentic self-expression and familial belonging creates an impossible choice between truth and acceptance.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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