Now I Understand

[traci_k]

Those of us who have lived with gender dysphoria, thinking of ourselves as the opposite gender all our lives, don't realize what a shock it can be to others when we come out as transgender. For us, seeing ourselves as the opposite gender trapped in the wrong body is just second nature. I now understand how shocking that can be. I got a letter yesterday from a friend in whom I confided my being transgender and after some talk on other topics he mentions as sort of an aside how he had always wished to have female anatomy and was maybe bi-sexual. I had to re-read several times just to understand if he was saying what I thought he was saying. He was, and I'm still trying to wrap my mind around it because he had always been a man's man, military, hunter, outdoorsman. Needless to say I was floored. Now I understand how difficult it may be for others when we come out as transgender.