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There is No “Right Way” to Live a Post Transition Life
Are “Passing” Trans People required to live “Visibly ”?
I haven’t written on this platform in quite some time. The last time I published, I was a wide-eyed early transitioning woman. New to hormones, new to living an out life, I was free. It felt sublime, and I was happy for the first time in my life. I am more mature now and a little more run down by the post-Covid hellscape our world has become.
Nonetheless, I still get those moments of joy when I wake up and look in the mirror or when I catch some guy checking me out from the corner of my eye. I achieved something I thought most of my life was only fantasy. I gave up writing though because I found that I was forced to live a “wrote narrative” once again. Trans people have become an issue at the heart of American discourse. This has led to deeper political polarization and a tendency for Trans people to develop a narrative on how other trans people should live. Thus my politically moderate views and opinions did not translate well to publishing. Nonetheless, here I am again, back at it.
Something happens to a percentage of Trans people as they transition. Some get what crudely is referred to as “passing privilege.” It’s a horrible term, but since we haven’t developed a more PC term for the phenomenon, we will use…
