Quiet Rage and Silent Pain: The unseen fury of gender dysphoria

Cisgender people can’t feel the pain of being transgender.

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According to the popular press, there are an estimated 1.2 million transgender people in the United States, a very small group for a country with 340 million people.

For all of the talk about transgender athletes and safe ladies’ bathrooms, no time is spent on the incredible mental pain and anguish suffered by most of the transgender community.

In my first article, below, I tried to describe what gender dysphoria felt like:

The Transgender Pain

As I started to write this article, I ran across another writer who also captured the pain extremely well.

What is it like to have Gender Dysphoria? What does that even *mean*?

The common experience is isolated, extreme emotional pain.