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Trapped in a man’s body
By Ms Chor Lor | April 16, 2009 | 427 views
This article seems like the interview of a transgender woman.
You can read it HERE.
For 55 years, Jackson lived his life as a male. And since young, he already knew something was not right.
Finally at the age of 57, she went for her sex change surgery and has found her real self now.
He had sacrificed everything dear to him, including his wife, to be who she really is.
He has since been divorced with his wife for 4 and a half years and they were married for 36 years.
Reading through the article, I found many meaningful quotes from her.
“Transsexuals, at an early age, believe they have the mind of the other gender trapped in the body they were given at birth,” she said. “The current theory now is that every fetus starts out as a female, and, at the point of conception, the sex is determined, the physical sex.
“However, the gender-mind, the mind of the fetus, doesn’t start to develop until around the eighth to 12th week of pregnancy, and, during that period of time, something happens with the mother. It may be an emotional episode. It may be chemical. But a male fetus may be bathed in estrogen, or a female fetus may be bathed in testosterone.”
If the above is true, then I can only speculate the emtional episodes that made me a transgender will be my drug addict father.
Transgender’ just means a person that identifies with another gender. It’s not a lifestyle like it’s reported to be. It’s just who that person is. What they do about it is ‘choice.’ They can live in complete silence, or they can live authentically.”
The above is very true. Being transgendered is not a lifestyle. It is also not a choice. We don’t chose to be a transgender at birth. The only choice lies in our decision, whether to chose to carry on living in the opposite sex, in misery and unhappiness, or to chose to live in the correct gender, going for the sex change, being our true self.
She said to a friend who works with her :
I’m not an aberration. I’m not something to be feared. I’m just a person like everybody else. I have my identity just like everyone else.”
We are still the same person with the same character. The person that you use to know. We just underwent some changes and changed the way we looked…………
when trans people are open about their identities, they “often pay a horrific price for it,” in terms of un- or underemployment, severed relationships, religious ostracization, discrimination and even violence.
That’s probably why there are so many who prefers to live in the dark and keep this secret………..
No one is born hating gay people or transgendered people. It’s learned.
It’s true. You are not born to hate us. You are just probably influenced by friends, by family or by the majority. Someone hated us, you learned it from them. Someone else learned it from you.
So why don’t you try accepting us with an open mind, someone else learned it from you, someone else learned it from them, the world will be so much more peaceful with no hatred. (but I will still hate my brother hehe)
Nobody in their right mind wakes up and says, ‘I’m going to be gay today, or I’m going to be transgendered, and be a second-class citizen and be discriminated against and hated and maybe murdered.’ What I am is an affront to their masculinity, and the way they react to that is through violence, not that I’m trying to defeat anyone. I’m just trying to live authentically in my identity.
Ya, I didn’t wake up one day and tell myself that I want to be a woman. From 16 to 24, it took me 8 years to finally became a woman after exploring to find my true self.
Nice article. Do have a read HERE as well.
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