Laurie McKane’s Reviews > They/Them/Their: A Guide to Nonbinary & Genderqueer Identities > Status Update
Laurie McKane
is on page 174 of 288
""...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."
— Apr 07, 2025 08:40AM
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Laurie McKane
is on page 93 of 288
"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."
— Apr 07, 2025 07:21AM
Laurie McKane
is on page 92 of 288
""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."
— Apr 07, 2025 07:19AM
