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Title: A transgender journey
Post by: geniebot on July 28, 2010, 06:23:22 AM
Post by: geniebot on July 28, 2010, 06:23:22 AM
QuoteImmersed in genderqueer circles before I began the 'real life experience', I contemplated the idea of 'passing' with the utmost suspicion. The books I read suggested that to pass was to conform to an antiquated binary that suffocated more diverse (and fun) forms of gender expression. Exploring territory between 'male' and 'female' in safe spaces, thinking less about how I'd developed strategies to 'pass' in my assigned gender in everyday life, I was convinced that transsexual women striving to pass were letting down those fighting for greater trans visibility.'Confidence is the key to passing - or at least to silencing the hecklers' (http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/jul/28/passing-as-a-woman)
Title: Re: A transgender journey
Post by: gennee on July 28, 2010, 08:13:15 AM
Post by: gennee on July 28, 2010, 08:13:15 AM
I go out and live life. If I pass, I pass. If others read me then that's okay too. I spend much of my life out in the public eye and it has been a blessing. I have drawn some kind comments from people from time to time. One thing I know is that if you are comfortable in your own skin, people see that.
Gennee
Gennee