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How can that be? It shouldn’t be but it’s one of the many dividing points we face in the transgender community.
Plus, with all which has happened recently in our country with bigoted politicians we all need to stick together now as never before.
We also have to consider just how many factors go into considering why anyone would consider such a preposterous thought. It used to be surgeries were one of the dividing points over someone was more transgender than another. Years ago, Connie and I coined the term (probably not original) “Trans Nazi” for those who thought since we had not undergone extensive gender realignment surgeries, somehow we were not allowed to claim the term transgender.
These days I feel as if the pressure to conform to being more transgender than anyone else is more involved with how you live. In other words, if you claim to be trans and don’t live it on a daily basis in the public’s eye, are you no more than a dedicated cross dresser. Repeating what I said in yesterday’s post, gender doesn’t come from what is between the legs, it comes from what is between the ears. Even though for whatever reason, the trans person just can’t live everyday as their chosen authentic gender. Along the way, perhaps we have lost the perspective of the common point of what is was which brought us altogether. In the beginning perhaps we…
