I see being transsexual the same way I see being a teenager. It's a transitional phase, not what we are. And just as a teenager can not remain a person who looks like an adult but acts more like a kid, we can not remain a person who looks like our target gender but is still our birth gender. I haven't spent my life dreaming about being transsexual, I have spent my life dreaming about being a woman. I mean, do you know any adults that want to be called a teenager? No, that's an insult. It implies we are less than we should be, just as being called transsexual or transgender implies we are less than we should be.
Like teenagers, we have a label that tells people we are in a transitional phase in our life, but it is not what we are destined to be. And just as teenagers learn and grow into adulthood, the transsexual grows into their new role as their target gender leaving behind the angst and troubles that transition brings, to blossom into what they were intended to be all along. Just as the teenager becomes an adult, one can not stay in a state of transition their entire life. The transsexual becomes a woman or man just as the teenager becomes an adult.
In this regard, having a permanent label of T would be meaningless.
Love always,
Elizabeth
