"For a man to be with a woman, it is about domination. For a woman – for me – love is an emotional journey."
I read this, and I thought, "Says who?"
See, this is one thing I can't get over. Many people who transition seem to me to have these forced, narrow, stereotypical views of what men and women are, and how they can love, and other things.
It makes me wonder if for some people, they're naturally different from what their sex is supposed to be in some of these ways, and they try to dissociate from that to be a manly man or a womanly woman, but they can't do it, and the discrepancy just builds up until they've become very different inside from what they present, and that's how they come to identify with the opposite sex, whereas if people didn't insist that men have to be such and such, and women have to be such and such, that might never have happened, and they might have been happy living as somewhat atypical members of their birth sex.
Of course, it doesn't matter much by the time they've gotten to the point of "transition or die." At that point, transitioning is clearly the right thing to do. And it could just be that a lot of people in general have these views, so of course some people who transition will have them.
But it does make me wonder.
None of this is intended to question any particular person's experience.
