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Marisa

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273 total appearances

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LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"Why I Transitioned: A Response" by marisa

End quote.

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"Why I Transitioned: A Response" by marisa

This is the wrong interpretation of Natalie Wynne's oeuvre.

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"Why I Transitioned: A Response" by marisa

See appendix.

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"Why I Transitioned: A Response" by marisa

Contra fura on contra for why.

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"Why I Transitioned: A Response" by marisa

What would a legitimate explanation of the origins of one's gendered feelings look like?

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"Why I Transitioned: A Response" by marisa

FΓΌhrer never tells us her criteria.

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"Why I Transitioned: A Response" by marisa

And the only example she gives us a psychosocial explanation of her own transition heavily implies that it was illegitimate.

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"Why I Transitioned: A Response" by marisa

But she's also dismissive of biological theories.

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"Why I Transitioned: A Response" by marisa

Does that mean no transitions are valid?

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"Why I Transitioned: A Response" by marisa

I got whole genome sequencing last year.

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"Why I Transitioned: A Response" by marisa

I can point at the sexual and endocrine abnormalities in my genome, but I certainly can't prove they justify my transition.

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"Why I Transitioned: A Response" by marisa

Nevertheless, subjectively, HRT saved my life.

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"Why I Transitioned: A Response" by marisa

Heading.

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"Why I Transitioned: A Response" by marisa

See, in the case of Kinoa Marissa.

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"Why I Transitioned: A Response" by marisa

There's an image here, with the caption.

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"Why I Transitioned: A Response" by marisa

Extremely simplified for brevity.

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"Why I Transitioned: A Response" by marisa

In middle school, puberty started and my life fell apart.

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"Why I Transitioned: A Response" by marisa

I hated my erections, my libido.

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"Why I Transitioned: A Response" by marisa

I felt like a demon had taken over my brain.

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"Why I Transitioned: A Response" by marisa

Unlike my peers, I never developed a felt sense of how to throw my body around.