Status Updates From They/Them/Their: A Guide to...

""...while.gender reassignment surgeries are indeed medically necessary to a great number of trans people, they're not, nor should they be, a prerequisite for membership in the trans and non binary communities. A person is trans if they don't consistently identify with the gender they were assigned at birth, and what they do about it from there is up to them."

"A great deal of the dysphoria and the destructive behaviours that can come from it stem from a feeling that one doesn't have control over the way one looks, and over ones life in general."

""the idea that control over one's presentation can have an ameliorating effect on dysphoria, and allow a person to more readily adapt their own presentation in response to a changing identity...I suspect this sense of control is important not just in the sense of having more control over gender presentation in response to a dynamic and fluctuating gender, but in the sense.of having more bodily autonomy in general."