Coming Out to Yourself
What do all of these comments have in common with me?"Just what we need, another old guy on hormones."
"If you waited until you were 60 to start transitioning, you are not a real transgender person."
"Isn't it too late in life to transition?"
What they have in common is all of them have been messaged to me here in Cyrsti's Condo.
Everyonce in a while, I find a very well presented answer:
"Realization that one is trans can take anywhere from a few moments to several decades. Usually, trans people have an inkling early on in their lives that their assigned gender feels out of sync with their bodies. The self-realization process is extremely complicated. The human mind does its best to help us survive, which can translate into triggering intense denial. Because of societal constraints, it is common for a person to try to ignore signs pointing toward transgenderism, whether consciously or unconsciously."
This is only one of several enlightening, educational thoughts on transgender women and men from a Huffington Post article here
Not so incidentally, the page also includes this link
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