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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.
Jun 4, 2015 · Lily Carollo, a trans woman in Burbank, California, said she helps cisgender people expand their views on gender identity through a thought exercise that, if successful, conveys the feeling of...
Jul 2, 2021 · Someone with gender dysphoria may verbalize this as feeling “trapped in the wrong body” or express sadness and regret over not being born in a different gender. Grappling with gender...
