Below are the best articles we could find featuring alok vaid menon about transgender well being.
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In a viral clip from the podcast “Man Enough,” the nonbinary poet and speaker said the gender binary hurts everyone—not just trans people.
When I told my family I was trans, one of their initial reactions was, “But you’re so hairy! It’s going to be so difficult to remove all your hair to be a woman, so you should just give up.” They were zeroing in on my body hair as the barrier for me to be seen as feminine.
The fluid artist moves seamlessly among poetry, comedy, fashion and writing.
One of life’s paradoxes is that we are encouraged to “be ourselves,” but are often punished when we do.
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