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Real Ugliness

Emma Holiday
2 min readMay 23, 2021

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Ugly People Do Ugly Things

At 65 years of age I have ducked most of the world of Instagram, Twitter and Facebook by simply not participating. After posting here and on a transgender help site the ugly people have finally caught up to me. Someone chose to make a complaint to try and either annoy me or shut me down here on Medium.

How stupid.

Fortunately, I was able to resolve the minor issue.

I have been physically and professionally attacked so I know what ugly people look like. They look the same on the internet. What a waste of energy.

As I ponder why, it makes no sense to me…and maybe that is a good thing. I would rather not dwell in that ugly world or lower myself to that level. I have fought in the gutter before and it is not pleasurable. It truly solves nothing. It takes time to wash that ugliness off your hands. You feel dirty simply by association.

The goal of my articles here, as I state with every article, is to help me understand my gender dysphoria and figure how I want to live my life, help others with their own battle with gender dysphoria and to do what I can to help cis gender individuals find a way to understand and accept the transgender people in their life and their world.

It’s as simple as that.

It is not a crusade. It is an attempt at a dialogue.

I don’t do it for money, I do it from my heart to ease the incredible pain that gender dysphoria inflicts on trans…

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Emma Holiday
Emma Holiday

Written by Emma Holiday

After decades of denial I finally answered the question “What’s wrong with me?” The answer is “Nothing”. I am transgender and I am OK.

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