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I am not my body!  I am my mind, my thoughts, my feelings, my personality.  My body just carries me around.
Bodies change.  Bodies age. Bodies fail.  Bodies become defective (or are born that way).
Body parts are sometimes removed or added, sometimes modified.  Bodies are sometimes decorated, ornamented, enhanced.
But I am not my body!  I am my mind, my thoughts, my feelings, my personality.  My body is just what you see.
When a person says that I must be male because I was born with a male body they completely dismiss who I am.  When they say someone born male can't become a real female they are only talking about bodies and completely dismiss who I am inside – the real me.
That I am not my body doesn't mean bodies are not important.
When you see me you see my body.  Though you may come to know my mind, my thoughts, my feelings, my personality, it is my body that forms you first view of me.
From my clothes you might see a punk, a hippie, or a business person.  You might see me as fit or as fat.  You might see me as young or old, pretty or ugly, male or female.  But you don't see ME.  I'm hidden by my body and many people can't see past it.
So I change my body and its decoration.
I've hated my body most of my life.  If the rest of the world would have seen the real me instead of my body would I have been ok with my body?  Maybe not.  Even if seen as female would I have been unhappy with my body and envious of other women's bodies?  Even cis women get envious and change their bodies so probably yes. 
My mind is female.  So that you see me as I am, I decorate my body with female clothes and female hair and makeup.  I take hormones and have surgery so that when you see my body you see me as I am inside.  Please see ME.

Julie

Thank you for your well written post, so very very true.  I do not post often as i sometimes say i an not even a normal trans person and I am not, I am me; maybe someday i will get the courage to post the whole organ recital. I just hope and pray we all find acceptance and the right and freedom to be who we were meant to be. I will say to any girls born between 1940-1972 the DES generation please get checked for osteoporosis as it can destroy your life. Thank you again for your post.

Quote from: Julie1957 on June 09, 2017, 06:58:24 AM
I am not my body!  I am my mind, my thoughts, my feelings, my personality.  My body just carries me around.
Bodies change.  Bodies age. Bodies fail.  Bodies become defective (or are born that way).
Body parts are sometimes removed or added, sometimes modified.  Bodies are sometimes decorated, ornamented, enhanced.
But I am not my body!  I am my mind, my thoughts, my feelings, my personality.  My body is just what you see.
When a person says that I must be male because I was born with a male body they completely dismiss who I am.  When they say someone born male can't become a real female they are only talking about bodies and completely dismiss who I am inside – the real me.
That I am not my body doesn't mean bodies are not important.
When you see me you see my body.  Though you may come to know my mind, my thoughts, my feelings, my personality, it is my body that forms you first view of me.
From my clothes you might see a punk, a hippie, or a business person.  You might see me as fit or as fat.  You might see me as young or old, pretty or ugly, male or female.  But you don't see ME.  I'm hidden by my body and many people can't see past it.
So I change my body and its decoration.
I've hated my body most of my life.  If the rest of the world would have seen the real me instead of my body would I have been ok with my body?  Maybe not.  Even if seen as female would I have been unhappy with my body and envious of other women's bodies?  Even cis women get envious and change their bodies so probably yes. 
My mind is female.  So that you see me as I am, I decorate my body with female clothes and female hair and makeup.  I take hormones and have surgery so that when you see my body you see me as I am inside.  Please see ME.

Julie

Very well said! I agree the mind is the most important thing. This is why I consider myself a woman rather than transgender.

So well written Julie!! Wish that people that hate us could live as us for a year or so. Wish that they could feel what we feel every day.
Hugs Johanna

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If you don't pass, society will not see you for you. That's just the way it is.
Those who known you in the past who can see you are just terrible people.

I see you, Julie. Thank you for putting that into words.
Meghan

Thanks.  I wrote this intending to send it to some specific people.  I haven't sent it yet.  I may chicken out :)

You definitely are not your body. You are a sum of many things that go beyond the physical..and contrary to the opinion of the poster above; whether you "pass" or not, you deserve to be seen as the person you are and treated kindly in all ways.

You should send as you intended. It is so well written no-one should be offended.

Quote from: Julie1957 on June 09, 2017, 06:58:24 AM
My mind is female.  So that you see me as I am, I decorate my body with female clothes and female hair and makeup.  I take hormones and have surgery so that when you see my body you see me as I am inside.  Please see ME.

Julie

You know what Julie?

I see you as you.

As the REAL YOU.

No smoke and mirrors... no sinister patriarchy... no government oppresion... no time-travelling Adolf Hitler sponge-bath initiations... the real bacon lettuce and tomato!!!

These mother truckers who talk dirty about us trans folk need to know that 2017 is the TIME WE TAKE OUR GENDER BACK!

WE ARE HERE TO STAY AS TRANSGENDER MAMMALS AND YOU'RE GONNA LIKE IT!!!







or....

...y'know...

........maybe just write a mildly apathetic post on Facebook about it :icon_sadblinky: