Alexandra Heminsley on inhabiting a female body
How We Live Now with Katherine May
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The Importance of Being Trans
I hope half my life um yes let's set up for a while making some more of my wild assumptions you got very wary of those over the last few years yeah but yeah it was it was an extremely traumatic period to live through but also proved to be ultimately a really positive one. I know that now in like that day is imprinted in the DNA of my existence and will be until the day I die so it taught me a lot about a trans person but specifically a trans woman's experience of well oh you're saying this but I've never heard of that or that doesn't figure It's perfectly simple that's not the way things are.
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