The Trans Debate and the Language It Uses

I was raised in the same school of toxic masculinity as my father. I think he hid me because he saw me as a threat to his masculinity. If I had looked like what he expected a woman to look like, it would never have happened as it did. The idea of being incorrectly female really shot off the page at me. It's not just about who you are, but how you express who you are. And that somehow, almost like in a computer program, it's a glitch... But also he was living in a world where this was publicly,. constantly debated on the television is this wrong, is this, and the language that was used. Some of the language in the book

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