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So how did this all start and how did you end up here?

For starters . . . I'm not exactly sure what this question means. If it's asking when I started being transgendered, I'd have to say it was always like this. I don't think people start being transgendered, I believe we're born this way.

As for how I got here, it's actually a quite recent story. I had an upcoming interview for an internship and freaked out about what clothes I was going to wear. I've always been more comfortable in men's clothes, but since I was preparing for an interview with an engineering company, a more "conservative" approach was necessary. After a week and a half of fighting with friends about not being able to wear the women's business suits they kept suggesting, I finally realized it was more than just a choice of clothes - it was an identity I had finally comfortably formed and was faced with suddenly having it stripped away.

What is your plan to transition? Are you aware that many transsexuals never live a "normal" female life and end up involved with other trans people and in the trans community for the duration of their lives?

As of right now, I have no plans to fully transition. As a member of the transgender community, it is important for me to learn and explain that there are not only others exactly like me, but also others within my community who may be completely different from me.

I identify as a member of the transgender community, but more specifically as a non-gendered individual. I share my membership in this community with transexuals, drag kings and queens, gender queers, and countless other gender-variant individuals in our society.

As for my awareness of the fact stated in the second part of this question, not only am I completely aware of what is being said here, but I have made it my life mission to change that. Since my confrontation with my identity, I have changed my major in college and am no longer pursuing a degree in engineering. Instead, I am now a general studies major with all intentions to work in political activism after graduation.

I feel it is important for these notions of gender-variant individuals being confined to our limited communitites to be destroyed. I believe it is time for individuals within the trans community to be accepted in our society the same as women have begun to be accepted and the same homosexuals and bisexuals have begun to be accepted.

As for being in the trans community for the duration of our lives, there is nothing stronger than a community and without one, we would be subject to the tortures of our society as individuals. My ultimate goal is not to eliminate the trans community, but to eliminate the present need for such community. The need for a community will always exist in our diverse society, but the governing factors of that need can change.

If you pass perfectly in 3 years, will you tell others about your past?

Surely, and I encourage all other who chose this path to do the same.

Why do you want to transition?

Again, transition is not an option for me.

What is your sexual orientation and how does your changing your gender effect that?

I identify as a lesbian, and even though I no longer identify as female, I do still identify as lesbian.

What will you do about employment? Do you plan to transition at work?

My employment will revolve around my gender identity - political activist working for transgender/gender-variant rights.

Are out to your friends and family? How are they reacting to your decision?

Only to a few close friends, and they are very supportive and understanding.

What is your goal? After you go full-time will you pursue other surgeries?

My only goal is to be completely comfortable in my identity and to help others achieve that same level of comfort.



Cross posted to butchick and genderqueer