Laurie McKane’s Reviews > They/Them/Their: A Guide to Nonbinary & Genderqueer Identities > Status Update

""...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."

""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."