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Polling shows that knowing a trans person decreases transphobia (www.lgbtqnation.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is how I thought of it before I knew a trans person:

I feel strongly that I'm a woman. Trans people feel strongly they are a gender other than what they were assigned at birth. If I was unlucky to get stuck in a body with a penis but nothing else changed, I'd have been trans myself. Could have been me!

This might be helpful for people willing to question instead of blindly hate, but who don't really know anyone trans themselves.