Part 1. How can you beat gender dysphoria without transitioning?
CHAPTER1: Some common sense strategies for beating gender dysphoria Combating gender dysphoria without transitioning is a war on three fronts: Frequency Complicity Narrative Frequency strategies are based on the idea that your overall mental health has a powerful effect on gender dysphoria, making it either better or worse. Therefore, you need to identify aspects of your life which obviously aggravate gender dysphoria. If you’re a borderline depressive with no job, no friends and a hell of a lot of time to think, for example, you’re clearly living a life that will intensify your dysphoria. By using coaching techniques such as life planning, however, you can rebuild your life from the bottom up, treating the depression, getting a good job and investing in new friendships. Thus… by reducing the amount of dysphoria inducing factors in your life you reduce the frequency of attacks. Complicity strategies look for non-invasive, practical ways to…