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Highlights From The Comments On Geography Of Madness

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PMS and the Choice Between Being Cis and Trans, Ayla Writes

Ayla wrote about her own experience with trauma and how it changed once she left her culty upbringing. Scott writes, many more ghost believers than ghost skeptics get PMS. I don't think there's any sense in which given a choice to believe that a witch stole your penis, some people are going to choose yes. Maybe this is an argument for gender dysphoria not being like a culture-bound mental illness. Some people find that something, maybe biology, gives them an extremely strong pressure towards trans. If they didn't realise that was a choice, the pressure might come out some other way, or just fizzle out.

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