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"textContent": "## Transmedicalism and the Refusal of Victimhood\n\n* * *\n\nThe Harry Benjamin Syndrome (HBS) and transmedicalist [1] trap is perfectly designed because it works in two directions at once. It reaches inward and outward simultaneously, and both movements depend on the same broken premise: that victimhood is the price of legitimacy.\n\nInward, it",
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