Diagnose this!
Transmissions
Published 06/16/2011
by Gwendolyn Ann Smith
http://ebar.com/columns/column.php?sec=transmissions&article=166One thing that many transgender people have struggled with is the assumption that they are crazy. We internalize the fear that our cross-gender feelings may be a sign of some psychosis, all the while society tells us there must be something wrong with us for associating with the opposite gender – let alone wanting to inhabit some form of "third-gender" space.
When I was a young trans thing, I scoured the books at the local library, and what little I could find was all very clinical, discussing transgender identity in the language of psychosis, and explaining my very being as a disorder. Even with all of my eccentricities – and coming from a family that is no stranger to same – it left me feeling that there must be something very wrong with me.
