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I've noticed that cis people often fail to realise that being targeted with transphobia isn't something that begins when you transition.

In reality, the very reason I was in denial for so long was because of transphobia.

Sweden was one of the countries with a very thorough policy of hiding the existence of trans people. To change your legal sex (!), there was a strict requirement that you be sterilised, not storing any sex cells, and that you don't already have any biological children. Procreation was absolutely forbidden. You were also required to move to a new city and go stealth for the rest of your life. This went on until 2013 more or less, and the ideas are still very much present in the thinking of a lot of cis practitioners in trans health care (and Swedish health care in general).

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