This spoke to me

[twice_immigrant]

I was just reading this, linked from the Wednesday Blogaround at Shakesville, and it really reached me. Note that this link from which I've taken the quotation is about gender-related issues, childhood bullying, and the like; be aware of your own emotional state before reading, if those are concerns for you. Supporting Gender Variance Every Day I

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[fullcontactmuse]

That link came across my twitter feed yesterday and I thought it was an excellent read.

While my growing up was not that difficult, I knew I was different but I had no idea how. Looking back it seems so much more obvious. Even now though, post transition, I'm very much a tomboy.

My mom said to me that she didn't think it was a choice. If it were a choice, why would someone choose the very difficult and oft times lonely road.

*hugs*

[twice_immigrant]

*hugs* to you too, beautiful.

I think I'm somewhat of a tomboy still: I play wargames, and soccer, and I rarely wear makeup or heels or hose. And I reckon that's okay, too. Sum qui sum.

[rebekahsdaughte]

I know that choice, and you're right - to be me, or not to be. Period. Pre-transition, it was like I didn't exist. I was invisible. Yes, the risk, the pain, the discrimination and abuse, all hurt; but they hurt less than the total isolation of invisibility.

[twice_immigrant]

Totally grokked, yes.

Funny, y'know, I realized the other day - I have absolutely NO connection to my old name anymore. I'm lucky that it's rare enough (and unpopular enough) that I encounter it very infrequently, but I really have no resonance with it at all.

Only took me twenty years. Yay! ;)