Gender reassignment is an exorcism of the mother
I believe the transsexual urge, at least as I have experienced it, to be far more than a social compulsion, but biological, imaginative, and essentially spiritual, too.
Healthcare for trans women is a necessity. It is not elective. It is not cosmetic. It is life saving.
I had a lot of questions where I had to be very frank and clinical. I had to go to school on it about what it could mean physically to be trans and the options that have to be weighed and considered. But I love that. Exploring that opens my worldview in ways that I would never be able to try.
I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving.
I always knew where I needed to go but I sometimes had a problem getting there, so I had to work harder at it. Once in a while I'd wanna take off the blouse and heels because I'd get that "I just wanna be a guy" feeling I had when growing up.
I'm not sure how paying for transgender surgery [in the military] makes our country safer.
Surgical intervention can be precisely what a trans person needs - it is also not always what a trans person needs. Either way, one should be free to determine the course of one's gendered life.
Transsexualism is, basically, just another, more drastic twist on the male menopause.
