The Dark Side of Being Cisgender

Eileen Sun
8 min readJul 6, 2021
Photo by Victor Dueñas Teixeira on Unsplash

We live in a society that heavily enforces a gender binary (the insinuation that all people must be either male or female).

Even among more progressive circles, it is taught that if your gender identity differs from your sex assigned at birth, that you should strive to live within the social norms for the gender you identify…

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Eileen Sun

I am a transgender feminist author and counselor. My work explores intersections of sexuality, gender, spirituality, trauma, abuse and self-discovery.