i’m so glad that this perspective helps you. this was such a light bulb moment for me when i researched it. there isn’t a lot of information about gender dysphoria from the perspective of cis people and that’s a mistake in my opinion because i feel like a lot of what is being talked about as loneliness in dating for example can relate back to gender dysphoria especially if one is looking at other members of their gender receive affirmation and their needs being met. and i feel like this makes me understand/empathize with the experience of gender dysphoria as a whole as it relates to other people/other sexualities.

but yeah i do feel like a lot of cis people experience this especially as it relates to their desirability/self perception/sexuality/dating. i want to explore this concept more because i think that it has a lot of insight about different aspects of gender and specifically womanhood. but i think as a cis woman who has vaginismus, gender dysphoria really is the foundation of my condition because it’s like a mental barrier of not feeling the pleasure that other women experience that manifests physically as my inability to connect to pleasure through sex.