Ellie Byrd
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So being trans I have a lot of issues and problems around feeling inequal to cisgendered women. Like I've been struggling greatly with this......and for part of today I felt absolutely heartbroken because I kept seeing "you may be a woman if..." and I kept wanting to echo or quote them.....but I kep
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Ellie Byrd
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I kept stopping myself....I was stopping myself because I kept heating an old voice in the back of my head, "but you're not a woman. You're trans! Your a man pretending to be a woman!! You can piss in a jar and call it grandpa's moonshine, but that won't change it bein a jar of piss." Something that
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Ellie Byrd
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Was repeated to me over and over and over. So for a long time today I kept being beaten down by ghosts of trauma past and I actually started to get upset feeling like the universe was throwing it in my face that I'm not as good as biological women and I'm not really a woman....but I'm trying to loo
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Look at it different. Like I related to almost everything I saw that said, "you might be a woman if..." because all of that happened to me! My experiences are of a woman more or less! So I'm not any better or worse than a woman because I was a woman!!!! I'm crying now lol I love all of yall!!!
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Isa-Lee Wolf
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Ellie you are a woman.

Our posts today include you, they do not exclude you.
Without misogyny, without the idea that no one would be a woman if they could "be" a "man," this pain you've shared would not exist.

You sit with us. You experience with us. You are "real."
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