I’m sure that’s correct where they are not considering cross dressers, only actual people who have or are going thru transgender therapy. But I don’t think I can really consider myself as transgender, I’ve never gone thru any type of therapy or HRT or surgery, but that doesn’t mean I wouldn’t if I had the resources. I wonder, just how many of us plain old cross dressers are really transgender inside, or how many of what are considered “normal” are? Tomboy girls, submissive boys, we’re only just learning what is actually going on inside those heads. And I bet there would be a lot of surprised faces if it was actually revealed just how many “straight” men have a pair of panties hidden somewhere. It would seem that “gender identity” is more fluid than we imagine, not just male or female, but differing levels of each. Some, like me, live across both worlds, after a lifetime of being a chameleon easily moving from one to the other, part time male, part time female. What does that make me? Do I really have to pick one from a selection of only 2? From the people I’ve been meeting, outside the real transexuals (have had HRT and surgery) I’d say there are more in the middle, like me, gender fluid, who are not counted. Since we’re female deep inside, and enjoy being one, I guess we could be considered Trans fluid. I never put too much credibility into surveys and studies, they always tell the story of who is running them, who is paying for them, the methodology, the way they frame questions, and the actual honesty of those who respond. I think there’s more of us than they care to imagine, I discover more every week, right here in the deep south. Humans are complicated, I think too complicated to throw into just 2 genetic buckets. Humans like to categorize, everything has to be one way or another, but in reality very few seem to actually be what society likes to consider normal, most of us are shades of grey. We’ve just learned to hide it, have for centuries, but it’s always there.
Hugs,
Jennifer
