Transgender (In)Sensitivity?
http://isisgalaxy.wordpress.com/2011/07/01/transgender-insensitivity/7/1/11
by Isis Galaxy
I've met some wonderful TG/TS people who have suffered terribly in their lives. In response to my query about the medical consequences of taking hormones every day for years, one woman I know replied if she didn't take them, she would have committed suicide; so even if hormones "shorten" her life, they have essentially given her years.
Unlike a lot of other struggles, though, I can't "understand" it from a personal perspective.
To me, there are two things that make me a woman, and give me female identity: My female physical self (genes, hormones, appearance) and having been socialized as a female in US society. I was raised as a nonconforming feminist, but not for a moment of my Barbie-hating, strap-on wearing life did I think of myself as anything other than a girl or woman.
