You know, I thought for a long time about my thoughts on transsexuality, and I still haven’t come to a conclusion. It’s complicated, and I know that’s because transsexuality IS complicated, but still…It raises so many questions, and a lot of them are uncomfortable.
First of all, it’s probably no secret that I love transsexuals just like I love most human beings, but it’s hard to wrap my mind around what they must feel and go through. It makes you ask if God can make a mistake such as putting a person’s soul in the wrong body, and how deep do gender and sex really go. It makes you wonder if having female parts can really make a person a woman, and how many masculine transfemales and feminine transmales there are out there. It makes you ask if a person can ever forget or be allowed to forget that were once of a difference sex so that they can truly be the sex they feel is correct for them. How do transsexuals who become hermaphrodites feel and relate with the “normal” population and other transsexuals?
I think a large part of being a natural-born female or male is that you don’t know how it feels to have a penis or a vagina, and you can’t really begin to imagine. And unless you’re a really good drag king or queen or androgynous, you really can’t imagine what it feels like to be treated and acknowledge as a member of a sex and/or gender that you’re not a part of even though you’ve never identified yourself with that sex and/or gender. I imagine it must be hard to find personal satisfaction as a transsexual. I don’t think that, if I was one, I could ever feel at home in any body no matter how many natural or artificial parts are gained and lost.
