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<blockquote data-quote="somethingtobelievein" data-source="post: 74840" data-attributes="member: 90">I&#039;m trying not to get into 4-chan level memes about &#039;identity&#039; here, but I do think that is the disconnect.I see identifying as something you are not as inherently unhealthy for the psyche.&nbsp; It takes extra effort on the ego to maintain facades like that which are not based in reality.&nbsp; Not just gender stuff.&nbsp; Another example would be a superiority complex: the person identifies as some excellent version of themselves not grounded in reality, and when this persona is challenged it leads to outward and inward hostility.Well, the thing you just said to me: &quot;I want to be perceived as a woman because I identify as one,&quot; portrays it as the former.&nbsp; At least, that they &quot;identify&quot; as women, which would have to be a &#039;cis woman&#039; because that&#039;s the only existing type of &#039;woman&#039; out there (0 Y chromosomes.)I don&#039;t think any of them believe they are or can become cis women, and that is a large part of their mental struggles.&nbsp; I think that they attempt to accept the belief that there is no difference, or merely a negligible difference, between a cis woman and trans woman, but that belief cannot take hold because they know it isn&#039;t true.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="somethingtobelievein, post: 74840, member: 90"] I'm trying not to get into 4-chan level memes about 'identity' here, but I do think that is the disconnect. I see identifying as something you are not as inherently unhealthy for the psyche. It takes extra effort on the ego to maintain facades like that which are not based in reality. Not just gender stuff. Another example would be a superiority complex: the person identifies as some excellent version of themselves not grounded in reality, and when this persona is challenged it leads to outward and inward hostility. Well, the thing you just said to me: "I want to be perceived as a woman because I identify as one," portrays it as the former. At least, that they "identify" as women, which would have to be a 'cis woman' because that's the only existing type of 'woman' out there (0 Y chromosomes.) I don't think any of them believe they are or can become cis women, and that is a large part of their mental struggles. I think that they attempt to accept the belief that there is no difference, or merely a negligible difference, between a cis woman and trans woman, but that belief cannot take hold because they know it isn't true. [/QUOTE]

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