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When well-meaning family members struggle with gender changes

My grandma is eighty-seven and trying so hard to use my new pronouns but she keeps apologizing every time she messes up, and now I feel guilty for correcting her.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Intergenerational love encounters linguistic and conceptual barriers that transform correction into emotional burden.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Gender identity — full spectrum?”

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