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I've talked about the self hating element of the trans community from time to time. Y'all also know I have much love and respect for Calpernia Addams as well and what she has and continues to accomplish on behalf of this community. She's also a no BS kind of girl too which I love.
So you know when I read this post on her blog I had to share it with you loyal TransGriot readers that talks about transsexuals who are ashamed of other transsexuals.
I am simply living my life with a selective openness about my history.
While my soul has always been female, it is simply a lie to say that I
did not have to go through some major struggles to attain the physical
body and social situation of a woman. I’m just tired of lying about my
history. I do not feel that saying “I am a woman” is a lie. But saying
or implying that “I never transitioned. I have always lived in the
female social role, in a female body” is a lie to me. You may somehow
feel differently, but this is how I feel.
I’m not thrilled about
having had to transition. I still roll my eyes when people use my old
name or photos to chip away at this true version of myself that you see
now, finally achieved after so many years of struggle. I never plan to revel
in the more hurtful details of my history wherein I struggled within
the constraints of living in the wrong body and social role. But I won’t
build my life around a lie that says those moments never happened.
I offer the radical idea that I can be both honest about my past and still claim full womanhood. In
the minds of many older trans people and conservatives, a history of
transition disproves their womanhood so they lie about this history to
everyone in their lives.
"TWAATs-Transsexuals Who Are Ashamed Of Transsexuals"
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