Sensational and Empirical
http://ts-si.org/global-warning/30956-sensational-and-empirical9/14/11
Lisa Jain Thompson
Since the middle of the last century, post-operative women born transsexual have existed in ever greater numbers. Our existence is documented by our rather substantial medical bills.
Few are us are visible (the author notwithstanding). From all appearances and available evidence, most of us lead the quiet lives of most other women, wives and girlfriends, mothers and providers, atheist and true believers, straight and lesbian, liberals and conservatives, feminists and subservient to our husbands, homemakers and professionals.
We are indistinguishable from the women around us. From the women around you. So much so that we thrive unnoticed in the general population. We are, as they say, an empirical fact that cannot rationally be denied.
That we do not stand before declaring our transsexual history is neither here nor there. Public declaration of our past in a political forum unravels the private lives we have worked so very hard to obtain. If anything, we chose to work quietly behind the scenes, using the political and social systems to change those things that impede our transition and threaten our existence.
