Writing Prompt ~ Transgendered

[tinhuvielartanis]

softlywhispered prompted me with this: Being a woman, who isn't comfortable in her own skin, and wants to be a man.

I believe there are more transgendered souls out there than any of us would know because they're viewed as such pariahs in our and other's societies. There seem to be more MTF transgendered people than MTF, but make no mistake that they do not exist. In one Native American culture, homesexuals and transgendered tribes-people were considered sacred and touched by god. This ties into the hermaphroditic Aeon as foretold by Aleister Crowley.

At one time or another, we've all felt uncomfortable in our skin. Especially those of who are fat. Knowing there's a beautiful thin person inside your biological fat suit often drives people to do ridiculous things to escape their skin. I've done it myself and part of my failing health can be attributed to my abuse of my body because I felt trapped inside something that was not me. I imagine being a man encased in a woman-suit insurmountably worse, especially when having to deal with the stigma of your situation on top of feeling completely out of sorts. I can't even conceive the trauma a transgendered individual endures almost constantly.

Some people think it's a brain-wiring mistake, others think it's a deception of Satan. God forbid, it might be a mistake on God's part. The only mistake God made was creating humanity in the first place. If I were a woman in a man's body, and my only respite to even marginally fit in was to abuse my body further by having a sex-change operation and be on hormones for the rest of my life, the last thing I would need is a bunch of hooligans dissing on me over something that is completely out of my control. Thinking about this subject just makes me dislike my species even more. My suspicion is there would be far fewer sex change operations if transgenders were simply accepted for what they are.

In closing, there's this song I heard (and I have the video, but it's super fuzzy due to poor TV reception) back in 1986 called "Damn, I Wish I Was a Man" by Cindy Lee Berryhill. If you ever find it, get it. 'Cos...it's groovy!

Comments

[softlywhispered.livejournal.com]

And no, it's not me, I'm VERY happy being girly. But there are apparently a lot of the transgendered souls coming out lately. I am seeing them EVERYWHERE. Alister might have been right. Thank you, Tin.

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

Crowley had his moments, that's for certain.

[ladyana5.livejournal.com]

i remember when i was a child and i heard in a TV show that a transgendered person had been murdered, I couldn't understand why. My brother said, "Some people find that wrong." I thought that while I didn't understand why someone wouldn't like their gender, it didn't bother me. 35 years later, I'm more aware of course and I have to give it to my family, for all they did wrong they at least taught me empathy, sympathy, relating to others, etc.

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a cool family to me!

[ladyana5.livejournal.com]

I also liked my brother's view of homosexuality: he shrugged and said, "Well, why do some folks like chocolate and others vanilla?" For me, as simplistic as the analogy was, it encompassed the complexity of the issue - no one truly knows and, really, should anyone really care? In all honesty, *my* personal assessment was that *all* of my family was straight and *all* of my family was insane, so therefore "minorities" can't be any worse!

[feedle.livejournal.com]

The whole "two spirit" thing is present in many Native American cultures.

And being part of a tribal culture that recognizes the fact that you can be "female" and have a penis (or, alternatively, male with a vagina) is empowering. Being part of a culture that acknowledges that you can have one set of genitalia and comfort with two gender roles is simply amazing.

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

I can't agree more.

[gatheringrivers]

Annnd then you get weirdos like me, female body, female brain....erm, mostly anyway, but really *hate* society's expectations of women in general.

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

That makes two of us.