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My goal was to convey the struggle with transfeminine gender dysphoria in a way that both did not require any particular prior knowledge or lived experience, and did not use any words like "trans", "gender", or "dysphoria". Particularly, I hoped to make the work accessible to cisgender readers. Since it is highly abstract, I recognize that the story may also resonate with other types of experiences.

Thanks to Kufat and wctaiwan for their draft feedback.

+ Licensing Disclosure

In this work I reference the title of Chapter 19 of The Sisters of Dorley: "You’re Just Someone I Was Forced to Know". No content from the series is otherwise used (though it does take inspiration from it).

While I think the literature is excellent, I would be remiss if I did not mention the content warnings for it. These include: sexual content, trauma, kidnapping, non-consensual medical procedures, medical torture, violent assault, sexual assault, abuse, human trafficking, gender dysphoria, misgendering, deadnaming, suicidality, eating disorders, self-harm, and several others.