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I do not want to be known as "transgender"

Started by Hypatia, October 13, 2008, 07:59:16 PM

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Fox

lol thats rather funny Cindy. Now on to the discusion at hand. I am still pre-op but when it comes to myself I identify as a hetrosexual female period. this does not mean i have anything against any form of the LBGT community. I base my friendships off of personality and not how someone identifies or is labeled by others. However since im still early in my bodily transiton on a daily basis I recive the labels of guy, college student, nerd and thats all labels are preceptions imposed by other people onto a person or a group. When describing my issue to a therapist or doctor or even on forums such as this I will say transexual because as I understand it despite the heated debates going on around it Transexual still for the most part stands for a person who is planning on going through a phyiscal alteration of their body and reproductive organs. Hypatia I completely undertand you in certain points after i fully transition I don't want to be labeled and known as a trans-girl just a regular girl. While I don't have any particular strong wish or desire toward activism that dosen't mean that I will just break ties with any community. I still plan to offer my help and support to any person that comes to me and ask for my help so long as their desire is genuine and not false. Trans is an aspect of me but IT is not me. I am just Victoria
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cindybc

Hi Fox, I do agree with you. about being born with the affliction of transsexuality then we go through the remission, *the metamorphosis of transitioning*, then get the rest of the malignancy  removed *get the necessary plumbing correction done.* Then finally come out of this long dormant period *chrysalis stage* to be the butterfly we were destined to become from the onset of conception. No more no less as fully a female as medical science can make you. You are for every intent and purposes a fully functioning woman to any outside observer,

Unless proven otherwize, like perhaps by Xray? The other two, an autopsy or forensics I would say you would have to without doubt pass as a stiff, like in dead, rigamortis, before these two procedures would be considered. By then, who care, you've already been dispatched to the next dimension  anyway. I wanna be a Dragon Jockey in the next life and a part time fairy. ;D

So now, if you find yourself like most other red blooded GG and your preference happens to be a relationship with a male, then be it that is the choice you have made in your new role as a woman. Or, for lack of a better description, if your choice is having another woman for a partner to share your life with, then the correct label, if you must use labels, you are a lesbian. I can't see what it is that is so difficult to understand about this. It is your mind, soul and body for you to chose as what you desire to do with it, not anyone else's

When I moved here to Vancouver no one knows me or Wing Walker as as anything else but as the women we presented as and the women we worked so hard to be. The only people that know are our physician, our shrink, the trans support group we attend, the minister that married us and our lawyer. No one has ever approached us to ask if we were lesbian lovers, so I can only gather that people see us as two close friends who travel together, even to the Dr's office and I am not about to give out any further information unless it is legally required of us to do so. If asked by anyone else then I will decide at that time what information I will give them, for now it's nobody else's business. 

QuoteI still plan to offer my help and support to any person that comes to me and ask for my help so long as their desire is genuine and not false. Trans is an aspect of me but IT is not me. I am just Victoria

Exactly, that is what I came back here to do. I am available for anyone who seeks support, a shoulder to cry on, a sounding board, just to talk about the weather, exchange a bit of humor or about the latest style of clothes, or about babies and little children.

Much of this topic one may find on my Blog Cindy's ramblings Blog or the Empath and Empathy's thread.

Cindy
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Hypatia

Julia Serano has been working through similar feelings...
QuoteOne thing that I find really frustrating about being transsexual is that (at least right now) it is difficult to be both out *and* to be seen as myself. For example, when a cissexual lesbian woman comes out, people get to see her as she sees herself—as a lesbian woman. However, when I come out as a transsexual woman, people get to see me as trans (which I am), but they also tend to stop seeing me as legitimately female and instead see me as a "man" (which I am not). I am looking forward to the day when I can both be open about being trans and be respected as a woman simultaneously.

Julia has already chosen to be known as transsexual, but is unhappy that some see her as a "man" on that basis. She is dealing with that problem by talking about it in the media. I admire her outspokenness. As for myself, while I contribute to transgender activism, I do not feel comfortable in the public spotlight and prefer to contribute what I can from behind the scenes. My immediate concern is with living my life as a woman-- nitty-gritty matters like getting a job-- and minimizing the obstacles thereto.
Here's what I find about compromise--
don't do it if it hurts inside,
'cause either way you're screwed,
eventually you'll find
you may as well feel good;
you may as well have some pride

--Indigo Girls
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