Imagine waking one morning to find you had the wrong sex organs. Imagine the distress and even some revulsion, and the immense yearning to have the correct body parts back where they belong. And waking every day of your life with this wrongness, this distress, the self rejection and confusion. And imagine that it can be partially fixed which will involve incredible personal psychological stress and multiple surgeries and drugs. Imagine that your friends may turn against you, your employer fire you, your family reject you. But you have the wrong genitalia and want it made right. Compassion anyone? Taking time to understand the problem from a bit outside your own experience and preconceived notions, please?
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