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transsexuality |
A woman trapped in a man's body? (Or vice versa.) Is that what this is all about? I'd like to think instead that transsexuality describes the state of one's being where he/she realizes that their external gender presentation doesn't reflect who they believe they are inside and it's uncomfortable enough to do something about it. And the "something" is the process of transitioning from one sex role to another aided by therapy, medication, legal identification changes, and surgery. So, maybe "trapped" isn't really the right word here.
Most people don't have the perfect body. You look in that bathroom mirror and you wince. Or you hear your recorded voice on the answering machine and you cringe. This is normal and there's really not much you can do about it. So you live with it. But sometimes there are things that bug you so much that you just have to find a way to mitigate or fix the perceived problem. And when this comes to gender identity it's pretty complex.
In the end you have to live with yourself and I hope that everyone has the means or the opportunity to find a way to make it work. And so by transitioning to solve your gender identity disorder (GID) you're either making a really good choice or one that's going to haunt you years down the road. To arrive at a conclusion over what to do you really need to think it all through. Carefully.
If you are one of the unlucky ones that do have a gender conflict then you know it's a bad place to be in. Constantly correcting yourself, feeling people don't understand you, that constant voice in the back of your mind saying "something's wrong something's wrong", and/or experiencing verbal/physical abuse for just being who you are. Sure, many transsexuals find ways of living a normal or typical lifestyle rather than having to make some sort of drastic change. But for the true tortured people there comes a breaking point where the sacrifice of change is better than the rut they're in.
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