"I've been thinking about this lately. Do you find that many successful transitioners eventually lose interest in the community? That life for them has moved on?"My initial reaction to this OP was,
DUHHH... Of course they have, why would they not? After all, their goals have been met. Then...I went on to read the comments and found some interesting "wrinkles" or points of interest.
Among those was the contrast in some of the reactions. Many of the reactions seemed to take note that while "transition" was indeed a journey or a process, there was in fact an
end to that journey/process. There came a point where the goal of actually feeling normal had been reached.
Others, perhaps those who have not yet reached that point of just feeling/being "normal", have understandably different views, or even expectations. Some seem to think that that much maligned and misunderstood concept of 'stealth' is the goal, or perhaps it is just "living as one's true self". I don't know. Maybe I am just splitting hairs, but I did notice that someone took note of the fact that because the "view", the
perspective from the "other side" is so
different tat it actually becomes difficult to communicate with those who have not yet managed to get across.
In my own personal experience which is necessarily much different from those here, I changed my physical sex in a time when there was no trans* or transgendered "community". Yes there were clubs where drag queens entertained their mostly homosexual friends and fans...and there was even a new and blossoming organization,
Tri-Ess, founded by a Dr. Charles Leroy Lowman, AKA Virginia Prince.
http://zagria.blogspot.com/2008/04/virginia-prince-1912-pharmacologist.html#.U--Limfn-RI.My point in all this is that when I finally recovered from the physical trauma of SRS, I simply moved into "straight" society and was soon married and working on what was to become a successful career. It was not until decades later that it even occurred to me to look around and see what might have happened to those who might have suffered from the same condition that I did.
What I found could and actually did fill a book. It certainly was not what I had expected. Perhaps that is why I have such difficulty sharing and communicating with some of the shall we say 'more established' denizens of this unicorn forest
