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OttersSwim -> RE: The Transgender Thread (11/23/2011 7:39:23 AM)
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Buckaroo Bonzai had it right - "No matter where you go, there you are..." And so I agree with you Missygwen on your point transitioning is not the cure-all that perhaps some trans-folk believe it to be. Waking up with a vagina or a penis certainly will change things...it is a destination...sort of a declaration of "I have done all I can do physically to right this wrong." But it won't pay your rent, nor fix your coffee maker, nor suddenly make you put the cap back on the toothpaste.
For me, your analogy of seeing "pretty young thangs" is sort of like comparing your house to someone else's...they may have more rooms, bigger windows, huge...tracks-a-land...[;)]...and your house just doesn't seem to compare...
But at least you have a "house"...
A transgender person is looking at an auto garage thinking....now how did this get here, and how am I going to make this into a house?
Okay, not the best analogy, but you get the idea. There is a baseline sense of "wrongness" that I have always felt and have heard same from many other trans-folk. But yea, most of us don't get to be beauty queens either and as I said earlier...or in another thread..ain't life just a bitch?! [:D]
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