6/19/2023 0 Comments Imogen binnie books![]() You’re getting there with your lifetime of whatever you’ve been doing to try to keep yourself safe. ![]() My approach to therapy is very trauma-informed, so rather than saying you were doing something crazy, say, “Oh, you were doing a thing that probably makes sense in some way that isn’t immediately apparent.” So when people are figuring out they’re trans, it’s not a blank slate at all. One of my central things about people (and I didn’t invent this) is like, we’re all trying to do better, but most of us don’t really know how to, you know what I mean? And if you are trans and haven’t been given the tools to understand that you’re trans yet, but you need to not be hurt by the fact that so much in the world is so gendered - and when you’re constantly interacting with it, even though it feels wrong and bad - you’re doing a lot of work to not feel things. ![]() That’s not one of the ways I tend to understand being trans, but I think it’s a really useful lens into transness: Let’s frame the fact that so much shit in the world is gendered. ![]()
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