Sometimes my mind goes out for a walk and brings back some ... different thoughts. My mind had this thoughton a chain and asked if could bring this idea home.
This morning, I was thinking about just how many dimensions there are to being a crossdresser or transgendered or transexual. (For the sake of brevity, I am going to lump all categories into the broad descriptor of TG. No offense is meant or intended.)
There are 4 basic dimension we all live in: length, width, height and time. With diet and exercise, we can control width
. Homo-sapien sapiens can only move forward in time.
A fifth category is spirituality. Whether we are athiest, fundamentalist, mono-thiestic, poly-theistic or anywhere in between, this shapes who we are and how we interact with other people. Sometimes it chages with age. Sometimes it becomes mor firmly rooted.
Category 6 would be gender. Most of us here have had the priviledge, no matter how painful it was, of living in both a male and female gender role.
How many of us find it easier nowadays to understand both genders? We HAVE walked that extra mile in both our brother's shoes and our sister's heels. Are issues such as sexism, racism, homophobia, etcetera more understandable because we live in more dimensions than the average person?
How many of us are more accepting of people today than before we came to accept our unique nature?
How many of us have become peacemankers as a result of who we are?
How many of us have become more active in demanding justice and equality for all people?
Being transgendered is a gift. We have expereinced twice as many dimensions as the average person.
I'll stop my rambling now.
Chaunte
