It hurts to be who I was born as
Someone wrote…
I don’t understand how I can be born into a body and reject the total thought of it being mine, but being unable to change it other than for a short time frame because soon enough I’ll want it to be mine again. How come I can’t just be male or female? Why cant I just decide on a gender instead of playing this weird flip flop thing with it?
I don’t want to have to scout out the only gender neutral bathrooms at the mall in order to feel comfortable peeing!
I just want to be normal but it hurts to be who I was born as. It hurts everytime I’m told “So you were only pretending to be trans” or every time the people I love introduce me as “she” as if “they” is an inconvenience. Even genderfluid people forget my pronouns and I just can’t correct them.
What’s your experience?
Category: your voice One comment »
November 17th, 2014 at 10:21 am |
Aah, I emphathize–this describes how I feel quite often. I can’t really offer advice; so much of the world is organized in a way that really screws us over. You’re valid, and you’re wonderful, and those people should be recognizing that.
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