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There are probably people who know more about this than me, but I think some of this is probably rooted in verbiage around gay people as well. Homophobes were up our ass about being gay as being a choice we could simply un-make, and that caused us a lot of grief over a couple of decades. Hence, the "born this way" argument (see Lady Gaga, et al.). I think this translated to the trans community a bit in that ensuring the language that is used follows the experiences that people have.

Again: being assigned a gender at birth is fine, but some people realize that gender doesn't fit. They don't think they've "changed" but that the gender that was assigned due to genitals doesn't match their lived experience. So this is the verbiage that the trans community uses that best fits.
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This is a very articulate way of putting it, thank you.  Your point as I see it: words matter and frame how people think.  If we change terminology now so that more inclusive ways of saying things become more common, the people who have only heard the "born this way" line of terminology grow up thinking that way too. It's refreshing. [/quote]

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