You know what I hate? Transwomen who think THEY get to dictate what does or doesnt make someone a woman. Heres a thought: millions of people all over the world will always see you as male, no matter what you augment, reduce, or turn inside-out. Those people just dont understand you, and in their eyes, this means that they get to defines you as he, it, confused or mentally ill. So why would you do the same thing to someone who doesnt share your feelings about SRS? In fact, how DARE you? This journey is different for all of us. Gender is a spectrum, and does NOT FIT into the binary system society-as-a-whole uses to express/portray it. Given that gender itself is a spectrum, gender DYSPHORIA also inherently exists as a spectrum. You may not understand why Im not running to Montreal, and I may not understand what the point was for you when you continue to walk around with a lumberjack face, but these are just our OPINIONS, based on our own experiences and feelings. The beauty of it is: we dont NEED to understand each other in order to respect and support each other. Isnt that what we have been fighting for? To educate others and gain their acceptance and their respect, even IN instances in which they may never understand? So then explain to me how what you are doing to me is any different than what they have done to you. I have always been female in (what I believe to be) the only ways that matter: psychologically, emotionally, and spiritually. I have taken steps to relieve MY dysphoria and to feel at home in MY skin. Its not your place to tell me where that starts or ends, and its not your place to define me or my gender, who or what I am or am not, or what this all means. I have supported your posts and videos and parties and celebrations. I have commended and congratulated you. And then I hear a comment about how finally you are female, or a REAL girl, and I want to bash your head in. But that feeling is quickly replaced by sadness for you. I feel terribly that the binary system we live in has affected you in such a way that you would spout these disgusting turns of phrase, that you would define yourself and who you are by the physical and not the cerebral; by what is between your legs rather than what is in your heart. How sad. Many girls I love very dearly have made all sorts of different decisions in their respective transitions, and I have always done my best to support them in that. We are, after all, supposed to be sisters - not enemies. But for those of you who act like Dr Brassard (or whoever else) has handed you some sort of trophy that makes you better than everyone else, or a out of Jail free card that allows you to escape the confines of being transgender at all, well, honey... You may not understand me, but trust me: The feeling is mutual.
Posted on: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 02:24:00 +0000
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