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s04e57 | Dysphoria & Self-Acceptance, with Cynthia Breheny

Calmversations

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You Could Be a Man, but Only Only Men Can Do That

"I just thought i would grow up to be a man. I didn't really like, i remember not liking that m but i didn't fully understand yet at that point that i wouldn't one day become a man," she says. "i'd never even thought about the possibility of growing up to be like my mam or my grandmother's." She was 'smacked in the face of permanence for the first time ever' when her mother found her practising shaving as a six-year-old.

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