Experiencing the illusion of having an opposite-sex body in virtual reality can shift aspects of gender identity. An experiment involving the illusion of owning an opposite-sex body led people to embrace a more equal identification with both genders.

I find it extremely odd that you're trying to deny my own experience and claiming I'm downplaying societal expectations. If you read my message, I say that all women have different experiences regarding societal expectations; all women suffer from it to some degree, although varying. Some more than others, some less than others.

Second of all, these societal expectations were placed for the female sex, and you can take offense with that, but that's just a fact.

Thirdly, I see you are a transwoman, so you will have a completely different experience than I have as a woman. From society and your surroundings. You can't claim to know how I experienced my childhood and early adulthood and tell me that I'm downplaying things while I literally experienced it. I also cannot claim how dysphoria feels and how transpeople experience their transitioning because that would be not based on my experience.

Very unsure where you are going with this. I would also like to end the discussion here because I am not fond of people taking offense and nitpicking and changing my words around.

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