Perception is your Truth

http://ben-girl-notesfromthetside.blogspot.com/2011/06/perception-is-your-truth.html
6/15/11
By Elizabeth

I write for myself and my opinions are my opinions. I really do not care who reads this blog.  If your perception is different and I upset you then go read a blog you agree with. The first 25 years of my life were lived in turbulent times when there was hardly even a perception of the truth about what I was. Even after I learned I was "transsexual" I really had little information about what that truly meant other than the occasional meeting or phone call with Dr. Benjamin. It got better as the years passed but it was never easy.

I have often said it was just so confusing. I thought I was a girl and could not understand why they could not just "let me be" a girl.  The naivete of a child whose perception was that she was really a girl despite the obvious physical difference in her genitals. My perception of the truth was mine and mine alone but it was my truth and there are many children today whose perception is similar.

This perception of our truth does not make us better than any other Transsexual but it does make us different than most Transsexuals because we are the ones that usually resist and fight back against being what others perceive we should be.

The American Academy of Pediatrics has fought and fully endorses the "Children rights to gender identity." 

There is a whole generation of children whose "truth" is fully validated by the medical community.

We have been having a gret number of debates here and the internet over TS vs TG; now we can have one over conforming and non-conforming TS, LOL

Kate D