W.Y.S.I.W.Y.G

It is clear to me that once you get past the gatekeepers you soon discover that you must be about living your life - not so easily done as said.

Society’s expectations (as well as its ignorance) are powerful impediments indeed. However, with respect to the complexity of being “genuine” and trans, being genuinely yourself (and not trading one kind of gender performance for the slavish adherence to yet another) is the enduring victory of gender transition – everything else is merely plumbing renovations.

Damn the penumbra! in shadow, in half-light is no place to live!

The transgender experience is inescapably a human experience – we cannot and must not content ourselves with merely existing in the shadows, we must take our place in the light!

“new vistas”? Thank you j/j/[pleth

Embrace ambiguity – or – as I paraphrase Dr. Joan Roughgarden, “the fault is not us, the fault are the facile and mostly wrong-headed theories that purport to explain (and thus define) us”

Across the event horizon, the now visceral sense and quite tangible solidity of “who you are – or who one is” in point of fact. After decades of denial, to literally touch the physicality and simultaneously the spirituality that, “what I am is what I am . . . “

It is experienced as a sort of hyper-real reality.

Absent (and quite irrelevant) the speculation of other humans, to experience “Me” as wholly and completely Me (in time, space and thought) for the first time in my life.


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