They often talk about us as if we picked our gender from a catalogue, trying it on for the first time. We’re treated as tourists in our gender, visitors who have decided to holiday somewhere new, then put down some roots. But these people regularly insist we’ll always be foreigners in these lands, never knowing what it was like to be born here, or to grow up surrounded by these people and expectations. But as you can see from my own story, I never fitted in where I started; I always belonged here. I’d never argue I had the same upbringing as the cis girls around me, but I certainly didn’t have
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