Analogies, these.
May. 10th, 2006 10:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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transI was poking around some of the older entries in my journal and I found this neat quote that a friend of mine gave me regarding my transgender-related issues. They were prompted to give me this after I complained that actually moving from male to female was causing me some unexpected mental confusion (yeah, I was a bit romantic not to expect THAT.)and they responded with this:
"Think of it this way. Think of it like a birth. With any given birth, there is gestation beforehand. For the mother, there is this huge transformation going on inside of her and when the baby's ready to be born she'll go through a lot of pain and sometimes even stare death in the face, but when it's all over she's almost always altered for the better. The baby was born, but something new was also generated inside her mind. That's how personality issues work. You hit a point where you've gotta be yourself and it's the same thing. There's the pain, the overriding sense of transformation, the pain and, heck, it might almost kill you --- but, at the end of it, you're inevitably closer to finding congruity in yourself and more comfortable as a result."
I really hope this helps someone who's in the same situation,
Elena. (:
"Think of it this way. Think of it like a birth. With any given birth, there is gestation beforehand. For the mother, there is this huge transformation going on inside of her and when the baby's ready to be born she'll go through a lot of pain and sometimes even stare death in the face, but when it's all over she's almost always altered for the better. The baby was born, but something new was also generated inside her mind. That's how personality issues work. You hit a point where you've gotta be yourself and it's the same thing. There's the pain, the overriding sense of transformation, the pain and, heck, it might almost kill you --- but, at the end of it, you're inevitably closer to finding congruity in yourself and more comfortable as a result."
I really hope this helps someone who's in the same situation,
Elena. (:
