One persons celebration is another's tragedy.
Case in point, I've been specifically avoiding even looking at this thread in the aftermath of all the Caitlyn Jenner wall to wall media coverage. With pretty much of that wall being painted in the colors of trans people being freaks and the total sensationalizing and exploitation of the average rube and their total misunderstanding of that it is to be trans.
Just made me want to crawl under a rock and die... the faster the better
Call it internalized transphobia, shame, knowing wayyyy to well what the average rube thinks since I spent 50 years trying to blend in as one... call it what you like. Yes, we have come a tremendous way in the past 40 years. Light-years in the past 20. Yet the nearest galaxy is still many generations away.
My two experiments when I was in my early 20's with transitioning stopped largely in part to the fact I stood out, I was a target of "open" ridicule, and worse. I had spent a good part of the 20 years prior to that being a target for far less. I wasn't about to volunteer for more. All the negative coverage only reinforced what I already believed, the hate only went underground in the PC world.
