Becoming Whole

[Natasha]

Becoming Whole

http://maurphish.wordpress.com/2008/10/12/becoming-whole/
10/12/2008

I would say that the time it takes or has taken for me to get my head around my essential feminine nature is one of my greatest frustrations about the whole transsexual experience. North American society doesn't make it easy for anyone to come to terms with transsexuality, their own or anyone else's. We have (or had?) such strictly defined gender roles that are based solely on the outward physical appearance of each individual that it takes a great effort to question or to <gasp> 'buck the system'.

When I think of all the efforts that I have made to 'just fit in' and then, seeing that I never really would fit in, all the efforts that I made to run away from myself and hide, I cry.