Complex situation. The article does in some ways cover it for those of us with no background, but to summarize; it’s possible to have different ideas about who you are that doesn’t exactly fit with how you have been perceived by others around you. But that’s pretty much any situation with trans people making discoveries about themselves. Facebook has been no shortage of surprises as former co workers have come out as trans in recent years.

Bit I guess the more prominent focus here is on able bodied autonomy, sense it does seem strange that people would willingly affect their own mobility over their own perceived notions of who they em are meant to be.