I hope I made it plain that TGs are less united by their similarities than by their dissimilarities. Each of us has a different experience of our condition, a different understanding of it. It is very easy to read books and trim your personal narrative to fit an attractive wider theory as a form of self-validation. But too many of these books are written by people who early on betray they have no real understanding of the phenomenon. For instance, the entire charing Cross experience is driven by what I consider to be an unsympathetic psychological approach that regards people who aren't dissuaded and proceed to surgery as failures.

So there are no wider views, I extrapolate where I can, but make it plain that I am doing so from a statistical sample of one.

I can only write about what happened to me and how I felt about it.

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