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The industry itself could be to blame. It's not fun to have your provider insult your appearance and try to push you to make devastating career choices, while cutting you off from effective treatments.

While non-gender conforming people need special protections, it's deeply sad that the industry wasn't able to recognize this itself... they just keep doing it with other people.

As always with these issues, no one stopped to think at a high level about labeling people's personality as a disorder that must be fixed. They just said, "we have to stop doing this to trans people"... "we'll make an exception for them"



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