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Righteous Anger

Emma Holiday
3 min readJan 21, 2021

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I need to hammer this point; I hate that I am transgender. I have had as much of a choice about being transgender as someone has with cancer, a club foot or cleft pallet. It is not a choice!

Who in their right mind would choose so much emotional pain and social rejection?

That pain will absolutely not go away unless I physically transition, not for my vanity but for my sanity. How many clinical studies need to be written before you accept facts? It is not a mental disease; it is a medical problem. We use medicine to help cure cancer and repair a club foot or cleft pallet.

Transitioning is about medically solving my birth defect.

Do you get it or are you militantly stupid? If you are, please stop reading. You are beyond hope. I refuse to waste my breath.

Use your brain and think. I was born with this birth defect. I was born with it. I did not create it. My gender and my sex were mixed up at birth. It like being born with two left feet. They do not get along and it has created an emotional hell that tortures me every day, every minute and every second. Why are transgender suicides so high? Put 2 and 2 together!!!! We are in an emotional hell that has a solution. If I transition, I will finally be at peace. I may even be happy.

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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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