I understand the mismatch between what’s inside and what’s outside. Really I do. 

I look like a middle-aged woman.  But I don’t feel like a middle-aged woman.  At all.  I feel like a young gun, still burning at both ends.  Mixed metaphor and all. 



Transgendered people aren’t snubbing sex stereotypes; they’re reinforcing them.  You’re in a woman’s body but you don’t feel like a woman?  You don’t want to wear make-up, high heels, and a dress?  You’re not into gossip and giggles?  You’d rather play football and fix the car?  So do it.  You don’t need to get a male body.  



You’re in a male body but you’d really like to wear lavender chiffon and spend the day baking cupcakes and arranging flowers?  So do it.



If we had more people with the courage to just do what they wanted to do, regardless of what others think they should do based on their indefensible notion of a sexual dichotomy based, in turn, on physical appearance, if we had more people who were willing to stand up to the consequent taunts and ostracization, maybe eventually the taunts and ostracization would disappear.


Additional information:

Blog: From Transgender to Transhuman

"The blending of gender and marking of skin are revolutionary on-ramps to the transcendence of fleshism. People who refuse to be labled as male or female are the pioneers of seeing humanity as not being limited by any particular substrate, such as flesh. There is a queer line of development from transgender to transhuman." - Martine Rothblatt

From Transgender to Transhuman, A Manifesto on the Freedom of Form Kindle book by Martine Rothblatt

Transgender, Transhuman, Transbeman: Uploading with Martine Rothblatt Interview of Martine Rothblatt, by Roz Kaveney