+An interesting blog post titled ["I Am A Transwoman. I Am In The Closet. I Am Not Coming Out."](https://medium.com/@jencoates/i-am-a-transwoman-i-am-in-the-closet-i-am-not-coming-out-4c2dd1907e42) was making the rounds in my social-media bubble earlier last year. In it, the author, Jennifer Coates, describes his—
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+_Yes_. Yes, I went there. Yes, I [know](http://www.entirelyamelia.com/2014/01/02/misgendering-okay-justifiable-yes-big-deal/) how [offensive]() that is. But I have a point to make.
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+This is a blog post about a young man's stuggles with gender dysphoria: ever since childhood, he's desperately wished to be a girl,
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+He _said_ he's not planning to transition. He said it in the title!
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+> Resentments on the theme of "the only real transwoman is an out transwoman."
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+Fantasizing about being a girl is not the same thing as somehow already _literally_ being a girl.
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+When I remarked on this to a acquaintence
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+> I suspect "transsexual" is related to "gay" but this doesn’t bother me.
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+Sometimes it is! Not in your case, though.
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+The story related in this article is that of a male with gender dysphoria.
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+https://medium.com/@jencoates/i-am-a-transwoman-i-am-in-the-closet-i-am-not-coming-out-4c2dd1907e42#.5dlc2qog6
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+> I wonder what this means — if the fact that I prefer girls is evidence of my boyhood.