Gender dysphoria is a state of distress that a lot of trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer/genderfluid individuals experience. The distress comes in physical, social, emotional, and other aspects of a person’s expression. I am AMAB (assigned male at birth) and had no desire to change my body. However, my dysphoria came in how I styled and language that I used to describe myself. I had identified as an openly gay man since I was just 17, using he/him/his as my pronouns. Within identifying as a gay man, I opened myself up to embracing and expressing my feminine energy, something that a lot of gay men get a lot of condemnation about. Within the gay community there is so much femphobia. Many gay men use degrading language to describe and talk down to other gay men that express their femininity, saying they are “too gay” or blaming them for why gay men continue to be ridiculed by heterosexuality. It honestly pissed me off because people with these thoughts and beliefs fail to realize how they ...