Trans Origin Stories & Unspeakable Thoughts
Gender is political. Look at the national politics on transgender people. Even within the Trans community, there are political factions, and there are some opinions/ beliefs that are anathema, they are blasphemy, it is an unspeakable sin to express these ideas. One mandatory truth is: I/we have always been a woman (man). Nobody likes to hear anybody say, I chose to become a woman (man). Doesn't matter the reason why, the Trans community is intolerant of any other story. Because the "i have always been" story works so well. Even inarticulate people can deliver and defend it. Baby, I was born this way. I don't believe I've always been a woman. I certainly fetished my mother's clothing. I only pursued the boy identity when told to. But I was also a beaten, raped little boy, I recently read this post, by a young trans woman. After talking with a lot of people over the years and finding disturbingly similar commonalities, I believe there are subsets of tr...