Summary of Chapter 3: (Last one! Whew!)
-"Stealth is an illusion and a lie. You're never truly stealth, you'll always be found out somehow in some way, especially now that everything is posted on the internet. So you'd better destroy any and all records of your former male life, and you'd better be prepared to move a lot, because as soon as it gets out, the illusion is over, and you're right back to just being a tr***y, and you need to move to another town and pick up the pieces all over again. It's a never-ending battle, and not a lot is written in this chapter here because everything that was relevant to this chapter was already written in Chapter 2. It never ends. A never ending cycle of tremendous ups and tremendous downs, lies upon lies, hardship on hardship, to cover up the truth that you were born male."
So let me get this straight... according to this author, trans women will NEVER be completely happy. That in order to be a "true" transsexual you have to go stealth, have to get SRS, have to change your legal documents, can't be out, can't be known as trans by anyone, you have to pass completely, and yet at the same time you're saying that it's basically ultimately pointless to be this "true" transsexual anyway because you'll never escape it, you'll always be found out eventually, you'll always be plagued by your past, stealth isn't real it's just the "illusion of stealth," and presumably you'll never reach the "Holy Grail" of just being able to be a regular woman and not think about it, you'll always have to disclose your past and live in perpetual lies when socializing with groups of women or while dating a man.
So WHAT WAS THE POINT? Seriously... you spent this ENTIRE article dividing the community, talking about who is a "true" transsexual or not, actually putting down those who are campaigning for trans rights and working to actually fix this problem with being found out being such a big flipping life-destroying deal, and you're trying to proclaim your transition path as the one and only divine and true path of the "true" transsexual, and yet you ended up miserable anyway. All while judging people who actually are happy by claiming that they are not "real" women.
If you want me to make a really honest opinion... you're miserable BECAUSE you're constantly trying to prove to everyone how authentically female and authentically trans you are. Because you're constantly trying to put yourself above others and prove that you're more "authentic." Because instead of building others up, all you're doing is knocking them down and trying to prove that you're better than them, complaining the whole way.
Frankly, I'm starting to be glad that I'm not a "true" transsexual according to her definition.
