Not Feeling The Term 'Passing'

[Butterfly]

Not Feeling The Term 'Passing'
Transgriot
By Monica Roberts
April 8, 2009


http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2009/04/not-feeling-term-passing.html


The term 'passing' in the transgender community means you are consistently at your gender best. You're at the point in your migration to your desired gender role that you are comfortable in your skin and relatively proficient in performing your desired gender to the point where you are moving around in the world like any cisgender individual.

[Janet_Girl]

So if you see me talk about those issues on TransGriot, I'll be using the term 'blend', because that's exactly what we're doing. We're blending into society. We're making an active choice toward becoming the men and women we were destined to be despite the body we started off with.

Exactly why I do not use the word "passing".  I am not trying to "pass" as a woman, I am one.  And all I want is to "blended" into society as just another girl in the crowd.

Janet

[Dennis]

I like your term, "blended". I think it fits much better than "passing", which seems to imply some kind of lie. Blending is just fitting in, that's what I do. I'm not posing as someone else.

Dennis