Passing as Male

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Passing as Male
TS-SI
By Lisa Jain Thompson     
08 August, 2010


http://ts-si.org/global-warning/26378-passing-as-male


Those of us who learned to pass as male, who learned to playact so we could meet however uneasily the expectations of our parents and grandparents, our priests and ministers, our friends and our culture, somehow survived our less than perfect childhoods.

I know no secret formula, no elixir smoothing physical and emotional discords at being born with a visible physical anatomy at war with your brain and innate neurobiological identity. The knowledge that the physical misconnection occurred shortly after conception when human life is still a small collection of cellular intention does not eliminate the reality of growing up transsexual.