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transHey, so I'm Nikk; it's short for Nikolai, but nobody ever calls me that. I'm seventeen years old, and I suppose that I roll with the FtM label. Suppose because I try not to be too sure of anything. Suppose because I'm not so sure that adopting labels is conducive to living my life. Labels make things complicated. I have a female body, but the rest of me is distinctly not-female and I want to have male anatomy (along with the little things like voice). If that makes me an FtM, so be it.
We still have these labels though, and I always want to know why. Don't bother denying that labels don't exist. If they didn't exist, why are you in a trans community? If I didn't consider myself transgender, I wouldn't be posting this, you wouldn't be reading it, and in fact, we'd probably live very "normal" lives - no fear, no transition, just lives. If that's the case, then why do we feel the need to call ourselves transgender? If we didn't call ourselves transgender, what would we be?
We call ourselves transgender, creating a dividing line between ourselves and everyone who's not transgender. We are [for the most part] proud of our identity and are determined to turn it into actuality. For all the trouble we've actually gone to make our wants surfacebound, I have to wonder if it's worth it? Is it worth segregating ourselves from the cisgendered community? What would happen if labels disappeared altogether and there was nothing left to tie the trans community together but experience: would we still face the amount of segregation from the "norm" that we do?
I'm sorry if these questions are a bit... philosophically obscure. I'm just curious. I realize that my questions might not be the clearest (since they aren't exactly the easiest to articulate), so if you have any clarifying questions, please ask.
We still have these labels though, and I always want to know why. Don't bother denying that labels don't exist. If they didn't exist, why are you in a trans community? If I didn't consider myself transgender, I wouldn't be posting this, you wouldn't be reading it, and in fact, we'd probably live very "normal" lives - no fear, no transition, just lives. If that's the case, then why do we feel the need to call ourselves transgender? If we didn't call ourselves transgender, what would we be?
We call ourselves transgender, creating a dividing line between ourselves and everyone who's not transgender. We are [for the most part] proud of our identity and are determined to turn it into actuality. For all the trouble we've actually gone to make our wants surfacebound, I have to wonder if it's worth it? Is it worth segregating ourselves from the cisgendered community? What would happen if labels disappeared altogether and there was nothing left to tie the trans community together but experience: would we still face the amount of segregation from the "norm" that we do?
I'm sorry if these questions are a bit... philosophically obscure. I'm just curious. I realize that my questions might not be the clearest (since they aren't exactly the easiest to articulate), so if you have any clarifying questions, please ask.
