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Being Transgender Is A Unique Experience When You’re Chinese | HuffPost Voices

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"I’ve grown increasingly exhausted with the implication that if I don’t adopt a white or 'American' transness, I’m somehow living wrong.”

As a Chinese American woman who used to be the eldest son of a Chinese family, I was taught from a young age that sons carry the responsibility of continuing the family lineage. This patriarchal idea of family preservation is directly tied to the philosophy of Confucianism, one of the most influential Chinese schools of thought. Thankfully, my parents never put that type of pressure on me because they didn’t subscribe to gender roles as strongly as some of their peers. Sure, my mother took a while to start referring to me as her daughter. But three years later, in 2022, calling me her daughter

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