X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2Fdrafts%2Fyes-the-only-real-transwoman-is-a-transitioned-transwoman.md;h=289862289ec0a1891384a7a464b37945efca790c;hp=43de970333444bc647dda7afe7e49ff1843a8a94;hb=f3551ab78b0e6328e99d28d8543b3951f7a203ba;hpb=14b1a1ee8ba8206abc7eec6bc7e817036462f837 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..2898622 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 @@ -16,7 +16,12 @@ An interesting blog post titled ["I Am A Transwoman. I Am In The Closet. I Am No _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 a girl, +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. + + + 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!