Gendered self-actualization stems from fundamentally pro-social human impulses.
- see also Changing sex; transition involves spiritual sacrifice; dysphoria can be a gateway to euphoria
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Gender can be a way of discovering our deepest common human nature. Because when all the signs are stripped away, what’s left is our pursuit of truth and peace.
⤷ Tucker Lieberman, “American Transsexual Sacrifice” in From the Inside Out, Morty Diamond
“‘I Want You to Suffer’ is about my feelings regarding being abused and wanting severe punishment and revenge. It is also a rumination on alienation and repression in the wake of authority figures telling you that you are insane for your entire adolescence, when you are truly just reacting to what is happening to you. As you grow older, you realize that the identity and stances that have been adopted remain part of the same poisonous framework that you had been trying to escape. In the end, all that is left is the aching desire to be loved and trusted, despite a string of failures on your part.”
⤷ Cindy Lee on “I Want You to Suffer” (emphasis mine)