For my research project, I’m looking at how online trans and detrans communities handle questions and doubts about gender identity and transition. One of the concepts I’m focusing on is ‘imposter syndrome.’
It turns out there a lot of ways to feel like an imposter—before, during, and after transition and detransition.
We’ve got women who report feeling like an imposter as women pre-transition and/or post-detransition, and others who report feeling like imposters as trans people (worrying they’re “not trans enough” or that they’re “faking it”) or imposters as men (“not a real man”)—or both.
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