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beck, you used the phrase "body-altering things cis people do to confirm their cisness" and i'm not sure i know what that means. could you clarify?

Every day acts like shaving (face or legs or whatever), wearing clothes that shape your body in particular ways, gender-specific haircuts, diets, 

Also including medical interventions (like hormone treatments or surgeries) geared towards keeping bodies solidly within the construct of cisness

I’m not saying these things are specifically gendered as actions or whatever, I’m saying they’re ways people “voluntarily” (it’s not precisely a freely made choice) alter their bodies, and they’re taught to do so, to further emphasize “sex differences” or whatever.

—Beck

4 weeks ago on Jun 3,2014 · 90 notes
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