Sarah McBride
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567 appearances
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first heard Jun 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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And the challenge in the conversation around gender identity is that people who aren't trans don't know what it feels like to have a gender identity that differs from your sex assigned at birth.
For me, the closest thing that I can compare it to was a constant feeling of homesickness.
Just an unwavering ache in the pit of my stomach that would only go away when I could be seen and affirmed as myself.
And I think that because we stopped having that conversation, because we stopped creating space for people to ask questions, for people's understandable, perhaps invasive, but understandable curiosity to be met with an openness and a grace, not by everyone, but just the people who were willing to do it.
We stopped people having an understanding of what it means to be trans and it allowed them to start to see it or it allowed for their preexisting perception that this is some sort of intellectual choice to manifest.
And in some cases, the perfect, quote, discourse started to reinforce that.
Right.
That like we started to get to this place where you couldn't be like, I'm born this way.
right?
That we policed the way even LGBTQ people or trans people talked about their own identities to be this perfect sort of academic...
Because it was... I'm not...
of.
There was sort of an academic perception of like, people have different
people should have agency over their sexual orientation and gender identity, even if it's not, quote, innate.
And that there was this sort of acceptance of a sort of mainstream perception of sexual orientation and gender identity that was a one-size-fits-all narrative around LGBTQ people that didn't necessarily include people whose understanding was more fluid or their understanding evolved over time.
Or for whom they feel like they want to transgress gender norms because of a reason that's not this sort of innate sense of gender.
And I think when you take that...
for us to authentically talk about our experience away from us because it's not sort of academically the purist that creates space and room for every single different lived experience within that umbrella.
You give people justification to say or think this is a choice, and if it's a choice, the threshold to allow for discrimination becomes lower.
That's exactly what my experience was.
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