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The neuroscientist Antonio Damasio is approvingly quoted as saying that “a mind is so shaped by the body and so destined to serve it that only one mind could possibly arise in it”. In other words, you are your body, and the idea of being born in the “wrong” one is a logical impossibility.
- Ellen Pasternack
"Born in the wrong body" is something that one of Harry Benjamin's patients said once in the 1960s, which made it into his book, and from there became the standard narrative of what trans people feel, even though many of us actually feel differently. (See Dominic 2021.)
Oct 6, 2015 · Born in the Wrong Body: With Gethin Anthony. A groundbreaking series of three documentaries following some of the youngest transgender people in Britain and America as they and their families make life changing decisions at astonishingly young ages.
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- 2015-10-06
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- Gethin Anthony
Sep 25, 2020 · We recently posted that ‘no child is born in the wrong body’, which is our broad position as a charity. Why? Because we believe that transgender people shouldn’t be expected or encouraged to reject their entire amazing, intelligent, beautiful, creative bodies, simply because of gender incongruity.
Description. The most popular narrative about transsexuality suggests that some people are born in the wrong body – that their bodies do not correspond to their inner experience and that their bodies should therefore be transformed. But in the view of the sociologist and trans activist Miguel Missé, this narrative is a harmful myth.
