Trans, gender, and me

[Natasha]

Trans, gender, and me

http://traningrad.wordpress.com/2008/09/24/trans-gender-and-me/
9/24/2008

I think my encounter with feminism was very important for my decision to become trans. And by "feminism" I also include LGBTI issues, and particularly lesbian and trans ones. And the affirmation of some lesbian to be lesbians because of political decision, by "choice", was important for me.

And when I became trans', that's how I perceived it. As a choice, a political one, to say that I rejected patriarchy and didn't want to be a man anymore (if I was one either). Now I don't want to say it was a "pure" choice, a "pure" political decision: but there was a time where I thought there was two possible ways: continuing being seen as a man, albeit in an "alternative way" (it was clear for me that I could never be a mainstream heterosexual man), like being a punk, a ->-bleeped-<- or something like that. Or try... being "trans", that is, not really identifying as a woman but more or less seen as one.