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"Embracing transition meant embracing the cycle of degradation and resurrection that’s essential to life." I've been thinking about this a lot lately. Gender-affirming surgery, though I want it, also feels like a kind of death -- at least to some of my past selves. (Oh no, is my inner child a TERF?) Transitioning during the pandemic makes death an unavoidable concept and also curiously liberating when I stop running from it.

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