-Title: Yes, the Only Real Transwoman Is a Transitioned Transwoman
+Title: Time Travel Isn't Real; Or, Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman
Date: 2020-01-01
Category: commentary
Tags: discourse, autogynephilia
_Yes_. Yes, I went there. Yes, I know how [offensive]() that is. But I have a point to make.
-In this post, the author describes his stuggles with gender dysphoria: ever since childhood, he's wanted to be a girl,
+In this post, the author describes his stuggles with gender dysphoria: ever since childhood, he's wanted to be female, and the fact that he's not causes him pain. This is a serious problem worthy of sympathy, respect, and—by far the most valuable psychological state one can occupy in the service of someone else's troubles—careful _thought_.
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+Certainly, one possible solution to this problem—and an increasingly well-trodden path at this late date—would be to transition. Take estadiol, take Spiro, get new clothes, train your voice, pick a new name—I hear that a lot of people don't even get bottom surgery these days—and all of this having been accomplished, our heroine will have accomplished the feat of having _become_ a transwoman successfully occupying the social role of womanhood, and in an enlightened, liberal society, people will respect that, even if you don't quite pass.
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He _said_ he's not planning to transition. He said it in the title!
-Fantasizing about being a girl is _not the same thing_ as somehow already _literally_ being a girl in some unspecified metaphysical sense! It's good to have fantasies. It's good to make one's fantasies real with
+Fantasizing about being a girl is _not the same thing_ as somehow already literally being a girl in some unspecified metaphysical sense! It's good to have fantasies. It's good to make one's fantasies real with
But _distinguishing between fantasy and reality_ is kind of an important life skill!
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