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What's does it mean to live as a member of a certain sex?
Cursory look into what's required to be diagnosed with gender dysphoria and to medically and legally transition gender. Apparently, you have to live as a member of your desired sex for a year before at least some medical procedures become available to you. I was about to express frustration at how unbelievably stupid that is before I realized I don't really understand what that entails. What do they mean when they say that? I can't imagine I'll live my life altogether too much differently once I'm out. Is it just insisting on the proper pronouns or is there a gender-role related component to it? I'm honestly a little concerned because I still have some masculine affinities and interests (geopolitics, pants, other things) and I've worked myself into a paranoid lather thinking that this is going to impede my transition.
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- JessicaLv 77 years agoFavorite Answer
It's at once complicated and simple. You dress, act, and just *be* your target sex. Proper pronouns are an important part, as is (usually) a legal name change coupled with a bunch of administrativia. The people who thought it up use it to tell how serious you are about your transition; they call it the 'Real Life Test'. The idea is that a wanabee or a confused person won't be able to handle living that way for a whole year.
The joke is, to real trans people it's no test at all. Living the way you've always felt you ought to is merely normal life for the first time in your existence. The feeling of metaphorical weight which lifts off your shoulders when you start is unimaginable. The year flies by in the blink of an eye.
