Sorry for the length, but I have to tell someone about this.
So I'm walking around the downstairs tidying up. I'm wearing a lightweight pink top that shows my body contours well and a gray denim skirt that goes to about two inches above the knees. It's pitch dark outside, so every window acts like a full-length mirror.
And I see this woman staring back at me and I realize that sometime in the past few weeks, I've actually become a woman.
Big deal, you say, this is Susan's. People change their sex all the time.
But, see I've wanted to be female for ALMOST FORTY YEARS. And here I am, not just a woman, but exactly the woman I want to be. I love the way I'm dressed, I love the way my body looks. I hate my face and hair, but what woman doesn't?
I just can't believe that something so amazing has happened. I've actually changed my sex!
At one of the workshops in the Philadelphia Trans Health conference, there was a discussion about the new "Gender Identity Dysphoria" designation. One of the guys commented that he didn't like that, because not all of us experience dysphoria. "Some people," he said, "experience gender EUphoria." His point was that transition and treatment were just as appropriate for them.
That's definitely they way my transgender manifests itself, as an overwhelming euphoria when I see myself, or some part of myself, looking like the female I should be.
Again, sorry for the length, but I had to share this with someone.
