This really hits home to one of the central sources of internal dissonance for me, relative to my own experience of transness. It’s taken me years to find the ability to claim a spot in woman-space, and it’s only just recently I’ve been willing to say the words “I am a woman”. It still feels very novel.

To be clear, I also know that as a bigender person, and as someone that isn’t me, your experience won’t align precisely with my own, but this clause really stood out to me as something that has been a particular challenge for both of us.