Reply To: ever doubted you were transgender?

[M Dana Strauss]

No doubt fear plays a big role in putting up barriers to movement. Knowing the loses you may experience can accentuate the fear as can shame and guilt which a lot of us have. All this can cause you to question at many points whether you are trans enough or at all or whether it is worth the pain of transition. Regardless, there is something which propels us forward. Your analogy to Marines facing fear in combat is spot on. As an ex FMF corpsman it was easy to observe that fear wasn’t absent and what become the focus was not letting down those in the “same foxhole and each having the other’s back. Semper Fi.