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Thanks Donald! The trauma of changing a birth certificate
Did Donald Trump just do something inadvertently good for the trans/intersex community?
Why it took so long for me to pursue doing an update to my birth certificate
I suffered with experiences and feelings since the day I was born of gender incongruence, but it wasn’t just the mental struggles that come along with that — it came with physical issues as well. Something else always seemed to be going on, but it didn’t seem severe enough for any medical person to really care about. They always seem to focus on the downstream problems the issues created, but never researched if there was any root cause for them. Honestly, they probably didn’t consider them downstream problems at the time, just generic unrelated problems.
This played hell with my experiences over time! There was always a conflict going on. I felt female, but my parents were constantly telling me I wasn’t. I was always hoping that my weird biology was going to save me, and there were sometimes where that seemed to be becoming true. However, that ultimately failed. I felt I had no choice but to then try to comply with my biological fate/birth assignment. Even my femininity was later used as a weapon against me, by my family, to…
