Gender 'Differance': Alienation & Validation
Filed By Drew Cordes | February 14, 2012 12:00 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2012/02/gender_differance_alienation_and_validation_in_gen.php (http://www.bilerico.com/2012/02/gender_differance_alienation_and_validation_in_gen.php)
Please forgive the following unholy union of the personal with the theoretical. I know this practice takes some of the oomph out of my hypotheses, but I'm doing it for two important reasons: 1. to give you, my dear reader, some insight and context into my deliberations on these things, and B. I have limited patience for theory that has no practical application (be it personal, artistic, etc.) in the living world. Grounding the theoretical in actual experience makes it more understandable (hopefully).
Now, foreplay aside - I'm a transgender woman, I pass when I want to (which is usually), and I had gender reassignment surgery a little less than a year ago. At this point, I am expected to feel validated and "complete" as a person in terms of my gender expression out in the social world and in terms of how I view myself, i.e. the elimination of "dysphoria" and correlation harmony of mind and body[1].
This is not the case.