I don't understand "identities"

You... didn't listen to anything I just said, did you?

I think that actually makes it worse. The problem I'm describing is that I don't identify as anything, let alone know that I "am" anything. You're still assuming the existence of an internal gender state. That's what baffles me.

That's literally what I said! None of us identify as anything. We are just... ourselves. Just who and what we are.

That phrase may have fallen out of favor, but I think it's an accurate description of how binary transgenderism is described in the trans community. There's still an internal gender identity that doesn't match the body one was born with.

No, it's not and that's not what I said.

For example I am not and never was a woman trapped in a man's body. I am a woman, with a woman's body that makes me feel bad and hormones that make me feel worse. With modern medicine I can make my body healthier. It always was a woman's body because I am a woman and it's my body. It just wasn't a very healthy one.

Okay, but what I'm saying is that I don't feel the same way as a lot of people here. I've been lurking this subreddit for at least a year and the whole thing doesn't make sense to me still. The only framework that I've ever sort of related to is the "discredited" Ray Blanchard typology.

Well there you go then. I don't know what else to tell you.

You may have lurked here but you don't read my reply and you apparently didn't read much else here.

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