Sunday, March 08, 2009
Hitting The Gender Wall
Posted by Monica Roberts at 7:12 PM
http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2009/03/hitting-gender-wall.html (http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2009/03/hitting-gender-wall.html)
Marathon runners talk about hitting 'the wall'. It's that point in the race in which you exhaust the glycogen stored in your body while using it for the quick energy that running calls for and start burning stored fat instead. That's brings on massive fatigue, and at that point in marathon parlance, you've 'hit the wall'.
There's a wall when you transition as well, but it's emotional. You try to live with the incongruent brain gender body mismatch, but feel more and more out of place and as if you're playing for the wrong gender team.