I’m a glutton for punishment. That’s really the only way to
describe it. I read the negative stories regarding transgender people in the
news. You know the ones, they liken us to sexual predators and pedophiles and
any number of other reprehensible things. Recently I’ve seen an uptick in
referring to us as having a mental illness. Now I totally disagree with that
concept, but let’s just take a moment to look at their argument. According to
the people that say we have a mental illness, we should seek treatment in order
to facilitate a cure. They imply that mental health professionals can help us
become the man or woman we were born to be.
Guess what, that’s exactly what the counselors and
psychologists and psychiatrists we go to see are already doing. They are doing
it without the stigma of mental illness, they help us come to terms with the
hardest realization of our lives, and they give us a course of treatment that
does make us be the man or woman we were our entire lives. It’s just that what
they help us see and become is not what the people that see us as mentally ill
want us to be. We become our true gender. You see, I didn’t chose to be a
woman, none of us chose to be
transgender, if there was a choice, it was to live. For a great majority of us
the choice is between transitioning or death. I choose to live, as my true
self.
Hugs and Kisses…
Vicki
