A documentary in which 5 men describe their experiences with gender dysphoria as they wrestled with feelings of inadequa | dG1fYnY2bm1PMGE3YXM
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00:04 When I first heard about the idea of being trans,
00:07 it didn't strike me as a good idea.
00:10 But when I thought the thought instead,
00:13 what if I'd just been born a girl,
00:15 that thought kind of devastated me.
00:19 I wasn't this effeminate gay guy.
00:22 I was more of this sort of a romantic type
00:25 that had interest in poetry and music.
00:29 There's this whole aspect of shame and just rejection
00:36 around femininity or any sort of me touching femininity.
00:42 The messaging that these boys have
00:44 heard throughout their childhoods about toxic masculinity
00:47 has instilled a sense of shame, a shame about being male.
00:51 I need to talk to somebody.
00:55 The first time she told me, I'm definitely transgender,
00:57 and only a transgender person would like that kind of porn
01:00 and that kind of lifestyle, and that I
01:02 need to start transitioning.
01:05 I came across this intimate forum.
01:08 It sort of affirmed my idea that I was born in the wrong body.
01:13 Gender critical means I'm critical of gender ideology.
01:19 Gender ideology does not believe there's biological sex.
01:24 It believes that felt gender has replaced biological sex.
01:28 It believes that there are 100 genders.
01:31 And I think it's nonsense.
01:32 There's biological sex.
01:34 You're male, you're female, and a very tiny proportion
01:37 of the people are intersex.
01:38 A good therapist, I think, would have said, well,
01:41 maybe you're transgender, who knows.
01:43 But let's get sober for a while, and then
01:46 let's revisit this topic.
01:48 That's not what happened.
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