Height Dysphoria

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“Height dysphoria is a sense that your height is wrong, that there's a sense that you are too tall or too short,”

^www.everydayhealth.com/emotional-health/height-dysphoria-how-it-affects-transgender-people/^

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Ignore that, I've been able to read it now.

My DM is 5ft2in and complains bitterly about reaching things on high shelves.

https://www.everydayhealth.com/emotional-health/height-dysphoria-how-it-affects-transgender-people/

It must be difficult being Chris - so many things to be unhappy about.

Aaaand some of us just get on with it!
And then come to love it and embrace it with all ones other weirdness and foibles :-D lol

@RhinestoneCowgirl Your mum is a giant! lol

Huge problem in supermarkets, especially when they are putting yellow stickers on and the good stuff goes quick. A short woman asked me to reach a carton for her the other day. I did not realize it was height dysphoria but I did get the carton.

"I want to present myself in the way that feels most authentic — how I envision myself — but as much as I try, society is still going to look at me a certain way. That feels super invalidating,"

I envision myself as a 6 foot, willowy brunette, without freckles, 20 years younger, and can I be musical while we're at it. If society sees me as a dumpy 5 foot 5 woman who is pushing 50, then that's "super invalidating".

Jeezo.

I have inherited my dad's height and have freakishly long gibbon arms so am often asked to use my powers for good in supermarkets.

When DH calls me "short arse" is that literal violence?

How can you be non-binary AND transmasculine?? I not understand.

Oh gosh, the transman dislikes their height and feels bad about it, and the transwoman really likes their height and feels good about it. What a striking difference in their experience.

I always knew I was really 5ft10 - I was going to say I feel it in my bones, but they are in reality pretty short so maybe not.

There are probably loads of short or tall people who aren’t trans who feel the same about their height. I’m a 5’ woman and have on occasion felt people don’t take me seriously because I’m very short. And there’s definitely some men I know who are very self conscious about being short. There’s a lot harder things people have to cope with though.

Next someone asks ask them if they have considered they might be height dysphoric and have they considered having the legs lengthened?

it's hard to empathise or sympathise with Chris. I suspect their issues are more mental that physical.

Did anyone see this photo floating around Twitter recently. It looks like someone played around with it but others seem to think not. It’s apparently from a gender clinic (possibly Israel?). I’m not sure. The tall man in the middle I believe is the doctor.

I had a medical and the nurse measured me. To my horror, I discovered I am half an inch shorter than I was 20 years back.

Did she have the right to take that half inch from me and how do I get it back?

A gender doula!

Is everything you don't like about yourself dysphoria now?

That picture looks like someone's been running amok with face swap. A bunch of freakishly aged children. No wonder the Doctor is smiling (kerching!), medication for life, that's his pension. They might even leave him a bequest, they're unlikely to have children to leave it to.

It makes sense that Trans men are likely to shorter than the average bio men and trans women are more likely to be taller than the average bio woman. Biology is biology after all. We have tall and short genes in our family .

I'm not overweight, I'm underheighted. I claim oppression!

Oh FFS...

It only counts as dysphoria if there is money to be made out of the treatment

This is some sort of repurposed short man syndrome isn’t it?

I’m 4’11” and I’ve worked in both secondary and primary school. Kids physically pick me up.

I just wanted to share.