No Apologies
By JillPage Wed, Oct 13 2010
http://communities.canada.com/montrealgazette/blogs/patentpending/archive/2010/10/13/no-apologies.aspxSometimes I feel that we transitioning people -- and transgender folks in general -- spend too much time trying to justify our gender situations to people. We tell them about our childhoods, and how we felt trapped in the wrong bodies. We tell them about the struggles we had over the years coming to terms with gender dysphoria. We tell them about the years of therapy we go through, and about finally reconciling ourselves to the fact that we have to transition to survive. We beg them to accept us, and we apologize if we somehow have disturbed their views of the nature of things.
Hmm. Sometimes we say too much. Sometimes we worry too much about what others think of us, when it is really none of their business.
We don't owe explanations to anyone except for the people closest to us -- our loved ones.
