Hi SoupSarah You mentioned in your post above:
Quote from: SoupSarah on Today at 12:01:07 AMI am reading some news stories, about trans legislation.. and just wondering.. do you ever move past the 'trans' label?..
Where do I begin to address this, I suppose a little history about myself, which I hope will explain where I'm coming from. In actual fact I cannot answer that question per se.
For as long as I can remember, I always wanted or longed to be a female and when I changed my life around, when I was 30 years old. I stopped thinking about wanting or longing to be a female. Why? Because I was living and breathing as a female and I did not know it at that time that I was a female. Although I would answer the appropriate question on the forms, 'male or female' correctly.
I would not know that piece of information (gender) until I was 51, 19 years after having my surgery and I found out that I had always been a female and always will be. Why? Because I found that piece of information from Susan's Place. In addition I know that nature stuffed up and I accept that unconditionally and without any reservations. If that makes any sense.
So how does that relate to what you say; "do you ever move past the 'trans' label?" No I never moved past the 'trans label', because I never transitioned period. I was always a female. When I changed my life around, I was working and living as a female within 3 months after leaving family and friends behind, who did not know what I was going to do.
Quote from: SoupSarah on Today at 12:01:07 AMhumour me here.. I am 'trying' to be naive about this..
Well as you can gather from what I have already written you know that I was extremely naive. University educated, but dumb about life in general, which is so ironic.
Quote from: SoupSarah on Today at 12:01:07 AMI mean, if you have lived in a gender, name and identity for a number of years.. are you still 'trans'?..
No I'm not 'trans' anything, never have been and I will never will be. Those terms that exist today did not really exist when I changed my life around or they did, but I was unaware of them, again that naive nature showing itself about me. They come up with all these 'trans' words so that 'they' pigeon hole us, target us like lambs and then slaughter us with their 'treatments' and amusement. The only 'trans' word that I knew for sure was transsexual and I sort of related to it very early on. However, I do not use it at all these days unless I'm talking to doctors who know about my 'medical condition'.
Quote from: SoupSarah on Today at 12:01:07 AMas one accepted definition of trans* is "denoting or relating to a person whose gender identity does not correspond with the sex registered for them at birth;" - but once you have had your birth certificate corrected.. is that then the essential definition of cis.. you are living in the gender assigned at birth (assigned on your birth certificate)... and so, that means all this legislation is only relevant for a few small years of someone's actual transition?
Your original birth certificate information is never going to be altered, destroyed or even misplaced. Lori mentioned, she does not want her birth certificate changed, it will never will be changed per se. The only thing that will happen is that you will have a new birth certificate with the appropriate gender maker on it. So in essence you will have two birth certificates.
In regards to the legislation you mentioned, you will need to provide a citation or link so that I and others can read it to understand what they intend to do with that legislation. However without reading it, I will lay odds on it they it will be used to control and label 'us' in some way.
As I have said I did not 'transition', all I did was, I changed my clothes, styled my hair, put some makeup on and then continued living my life as a female or as me and had some medical treatments along the way.
Quote from: SoupSarah on Today at 12:01:07 AMThe whole thing with words that start with trans.. is about moving from one to another.. or 'transition'. (like transport, transmission etc.) so, that would adequately describe the process we go through, but not the end result. If I send a package, it is being transported.. but it is not a trans-package when it gets to the destination. If I use my philosophers stone and transmute lead into gold.. it transmutes, and could be called trans-lead. or trans gold.. in the process.. but the end result (I promise you) is pure gold..
What can I say, I have already said it and that is I have always been female and there has never been any transition for me whatsoever.
As for the rest of the comment one can talk about it forever and no satisfactory answer will ever be achieved.
Quote from: SoupSarah on Today at 12:01:07 AMI will add a nod to non-binary folk here.. sorry, I am not including you and your struggles in all this and I realise trans* is a big umbrella - I guess I am really talking about transsexual, binary, people. People who go through a process to emerge at the other end, better for their journey. Happier and more fulfilled. Those people for which the 'process' stops... and life just continues on.
I'm not under that umbrella and never will be and life will continue on regardless of who you are, what you do and how you choose to live your life and only stops when you die.
Quote from: SoupSarah on Today at 12:01:07 AMInterested to hear peoples views on this.
I hope I have given you some food for your thoughts. Take care and I hope your dreams come true.
Love and HugsSarah BOfficial Greeter@SoupSarah
