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"Even after [[surgery]], I didn't feel anymore like a woman than I ever felt like a man, and my genitals really just always felt like they were trans genitals and they weren’t particularly tied down to any gender. So for me, it was really important to honour my body and to do that, I had to give away words – I had to give away the word woman."<ref name="Ashenden" /> | "Even after [[surgery]], I didn't feel anymore like a woman than I ever felt like a man, and my genitals really just always felt like they were trans genitals and they weren’t particularly tied down to any gender. So for me, it was really important to honour my body and to do that, I had to give away words – I had to give away the word woman."<ref name="Ashenden" /> | ||
"I've tried relentlessly to find my place within the binary gender structure. But it's not happening. It's just not happening. [...] I want only to be known as trans; not woman, not man."<ref>Roche, Juno. ''Trans Power: Own Your Gender'', Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2019. ISBN: 9781787750203</ref> | |||
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