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Transgender Author: Why I Decided To Become A Woman
Interesting article from the authors pov regarding trnsitioning and how she coped with her wife's questions and concerns.
This is a sort of a continuation of a prior blog of mine.
RAMI
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/05/transgender-woman_n...
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Thank you.
...I've been keeping my eye out for articles by folks of other belief systems as well; seeing their perspectives on how their transgender status and their faith line up. Judging by what I've read already, and what I know from folks like yourself and other friends here, it's good to find that I'm not the only one who doesn't believe that faith and TG are mutually exclusive. All my thanks to you, dear one!
Love, Andrea Lena
I don't know...
As far as I can tell there's no conflict between Christianity and being TS... I know of one pastor who transitioned - and continued to serve his church during the transition and is still a pastor to this day... I certainly couldn't have any more support than I do from my pastor... Or the other pastor that's a personal friend (and is in the know - as of Saturday afternoon).
Anne
P.S. I can identify with SOME of what the author went through, and hear the spouse's issues. Perhaps some input from where my wife and I are may help. She's not thrilled that I need to transition, but she accepts it. She also has no plans on anything happening to our relationship. She knows that how others perceive us will likely change, and she does have questions/fears there (As do I). But, to some extent, both of our fears have lessened - as we've come out - together - to two couples and been unconditionally accepted by both (okay, four, if you count our former and current pastors and their wives). Only time will tell. But, my transition is NOT ending our marriage/relationship!
Transgender Author: Why I Decided To Become A Woman
Thanks for posting
May Your Light Forever Shine
tissues. please.
Wow, what a powerful article. Yet it never once even attempted to answer the question repeated throughout: "What’s so bad about being a man?". Because it cannot be answered. It never even really even once answered the question posited by the title of the article: "Why did I decide to become a woman?". Once again, it cannot be answered. You don't "decide to become a woman" - anyone who does that is going to wind up one of those people who end up trying to turn back, the ones who really DID make a mistake. The only decision we have in this life is between being and not being. Between pretending to be male, or embracing ourselves for who we really are. Or the other way around. Or, even, lucky souls, not have to be faced with such a disparity in the first place.
"What's so bad about being a man?" ... The real question here is: "What's so bad about having no integrity?" Only a sociopath could legitimately ask that question not knowing the answer. Yet no one can actually phrase the answer! It just IS! We all scream! We just aren't men! We wear our masks, sometimes even manage to convince ourselves of their reality, but in the end, all we're really doing is lying about the very core of our being...
Transgender has to be the only issue where the world is actually OK with, nay, PREFERS infidelity. I realize that word usually has a sexual connotation, and it's only other real connotation "in common use" is religious, but the root word is "fidelity" whose fourth accepted usage is "(n.) Adherence to truth; veracity; honesty." No word that's more commonly used for a "lack of adherence to truth" in the English tongue felt strong enough to me. So, I repeat:
Transgender has to be the only issue where the world is actually OK with, nay, PREFERS infidelity.
Abigail Drew.