X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2Fdrafts%2Fyes-the-only-real-transwoman-is-a-transitioned-transwoman.md;h=59b99b2de64d7522cc1e38183e20304eb4bd9ab6;hb=64e966f78fce5da44620d8be79455724a05bf36e;hp=43de970333444bc647dda7afe7e49ff1843a8a94;hpb=b5c11aa4f6f86b6f5d9eb16509c2e302397c2f25;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git diff --git a/content/drafts/yes-the-only-real-transwoman-is-a-transitioned-transwoman.md b/content/drafts/yes-the-only-real-transwoman-is-a-transitioned-transwoman.md index 43de970..59b99b2 100644 --- a/content/drafts/yes-the-only-real-transwoman-is-a-transitioned-transwoman.md +++ b/content/drafts/yes-the-only-real-transwoman-is-a-transitioned-transwoman.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Title: Yes, the Only Real Transwoman Is a Transitioned Transwoman +Title: Time Travel Isn't Real; Or, Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman Date: 2020-01-01 Category: commentary Tags: discourse, autogynephilia @@ -14,9 +14,14 @@ But social progress marches on, and as old grievances recede into the mists of h An interesting blog post titled ["I Am A Transwoman. I Am In The Closet. I Am Not Coming Out."](https://medium.com/@jencoates/i-am-a-transwoman-i-am-in-the-closet-i-am-not-coming-out-4c2dd1907e42) was making the rounds in my social-media bubble earlier last year. In it, the author, Jennifer Coates, describes his— -_Yes_. Yes, I went there. Yes, I know how [offensive]() that is. But I have a point to make. +_Yes_. Yes, I went there. Yes, I know how offensive that is. But I have a point to make. + +In this post, the author describes his stuggles with gender dysphoria: ever since childhood, he's wanted to be female, and the fact that he's not causes him pain. This is a serious problem worthy of sympathy, respect, and—by far the most valuable psychological state one can occupy in the service of someone else's troubles—careful _thought_. + +Certainly, one possible solution to this problem—and an increasingly well-trodden path at this late date—would be to transition. Take estadiol, take spiro, get new clothes, train your voice, pick a new name—I hear that a lot of people don't even get bottom surgery these days—and all of this having been accomplished, our heroine will have accomplished the feat of having _become_ a transwoman successfully occupying the social role of womanhood, and in an enlightened, liberal society, people will respect that, even if you don't quite pass. + + -In this post, the author describes his stuggles with gender dysphoria: ever since childhood, he's wanted to be a girl, He _said_ he's not planning to transition. He said it in the title! @@ -27,7 +32,7 @@ He _said_ he's not planning to transition. He said it in the title! -Fantasizing about being a girl is _not the same thing_ as somehow already _literally_ being a girl in some unspecified metaphysical sense! It's good to have fantasies. It's good to make one's fantasies real with +Fantasizing about being a girl is _not the same thing_ as somehow already literally being a girl in some unspecified metaphysical sense! It's good to have fantasies. It's good to make one's fantasies real with But _distinguishing between fantasy and reality_ is kind of an important life skill!