The thrill of being transgender. — If you are transgender, you need a great therapist and a great cardiologist because transitioning is not a ride for the faint of heart. Once you realize that you are on a track, you begin to realize two things, you won’t go off a cliff and you are not alone…

Banging my head against my personal wall of gender ignorance. — As I look back now, I am stunned by how incredibly clueless I was of how deep my gender was buried. I now appreciate the level of denial that Society was able to indoctrinate me with. I swallowed their gender propaganda, hook, line and sinker. …

Or some pigs really will be more equal than others — In his classic political satire Animal Farm¹, author George Orwell used the pigs to describe people who betray everyone’s trust for the pigs’ powerful and selfish needs. Well, the pigs are back. In far too many states in the US and in far too many countries around the world, the…

There is no linear answer to why we are transgender. Believe me for five years I have exhaustively searched, like many transgender people, for the answer to: WHY AM I TRANSGENDER?’ I now simply say “I just am.” It took us centuries to learn so many things that are taken…

Their ignorance feels like constantly being beaten by a club. — As a transgender woman I find it so frustrating reading, hearing and seeing such concentrated attacks on the transgender community. It feels like I am watching people clubbing baby seals. I feel the blows myself. Where is the threat? The only way my rational mind can wrap around it is…

Transgender women just want to go there to safely pee, not to attack other women. — What makes a lady, a lady? According to the Pemberley Group: “A lady displays self-respect, class, appreciation, and etiquette. She does not allow her mood to affect her manners. …

The transgender skill of combining the best of being born female and being raised male. — For 60 years, ignorance allowed me to believe my gender was male. For the last five years I have been trying to figure out what I am. My writing here on Medium has been a travelogue of my painfully slow transgender journey. …

I am jealous every day — I have been jealous every day of my life. I have always wished I was physically the girl/woman that I knew I was inside. Every day I know that I was born in the wrong body and every day Society tells me that I am the one that is wrong. …

Gender dysphoria is our nature calling out the lie. — The one thing that a transgender person knows is truth and facts, because we have fought them both for much of our lives. We were born into a society that relies on certain lies to maintain the status quo and existing power structures. We were trained to fit in against…