Born With No Limbs: I Didn't Want To Be Their Poster Child! Briel Adams-Wheatley

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Advice For Anyone Questioning Their Gender Identity

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Paul connects Briel's experience to a wider pattern he's observed: a sense that social progress, which once seemed inevitable, has reversed in ways that are hard to believe. Briel doesn't minimise it. She describes the current climate as genuinely unsafe and not enjoyable for anyone in any community — a moment where the only path forward is collective solidarity across difference. But she doesn't give up. She believes any rock-bottom moment in history is a precondition for the next rise. She wants to bring children into the world; she just doesn't want to do it while it looks like this. Her advice to anyone questioning gender identity is direct and warm: find one person you can confide in, because this is not something you should carry alone. And if there's no one: there are organisations and communities that are ready to hear you. You are not the only person who has ever felt exactly this way. ^{[1] — Briel Adams-Wheatley "You're not alone. I know you get in your head and you think that you're the only one that feels this way, but you're not. There's so many o…" 1:30:30 Play}