Friday, December 19, 2008

Why?

"What would it have been like to be born the girl that is partially in me?"

Why did she ask me that? What answer did she expect from me, was it because she didn't understand? Why hurt me for something I had no control over?

I was asked that today and the reply was tears, no words, just tears. I can not tell you what is in my mind or my heart of what happen so long ago why I am this way, all I know is that even though I am not totally complete, I was a girl who has grown into a beautiful woman; mind, body and soul.

If you do not believe me ask anyone who knows me, you will get a wonderful answer or even a story of how they explain who I am as a person, no label.
It hurts sometimes knowing the should of, could of, would of, nothing could be more right than for me to try and explain what and how I feel.

Sometimes I am thankful that my vagina was never made, weird to say this huh? I would have not had known the hardships of others, the grief of the transwoman as well as the genuine women that have come into my life.
I wouldn't have been taught what I know now being the person that has imaged this body and soul.
I do wish sometimes I could have lived my life as the little girl I was supposed to be, I wanted more than anything to have sleep overs and talk about clothes and makeup, to experience my cycle as a girl and not as a boy.

All the experts while growing up had no knowledge of what I was experiencing but were willing to cut into me to answer the yearning questions thankfully my mother had no part in that, nor did I.
It wouldn't have made a difference would it to cut a child because she didn't have a vagina.

My mother made the right decision, the scarring and mental trauma alone would have affected me and I am not unhappy for it.
No, I prefer to have my girl parts as I have them now, when my GRS (gender reassignment surgery) is completed it won't make me a woman, it will just fulfill something that was needed long ago.

Not knowing what to say to that woman today was embarrassing, I cried, all I could do was cry no words not a mere yipe just tears.

I hate this not having the right words to tell someone what I feel inside when I am asked a simple question of why?

4 Comments:

Lori D said...

I've learned that people who are not trans will never quite understand why we feel the way we do, no matter how articulate we are explaining our emotions.
I gave up asking why. I embrace who I am and ask "what next?"

Véro B said...

Dearest sister, that was not a fair question, so the fact that you didn't have an answer should not trouble you. Your life is what it is, and you did not control how it began or the decisions made for you. You have lived it as well as you could, which is pretty darned well, and now you are working toward fulfilling your dream, the one you have always had.

I also long for the childhood I never had, the adolescence I never had, the young womanhood I never had, and I know that was even "closer" for you. I do look back, but I'm better off looking forward.

We are both who we are because of all we have been through. I'm sorry for your pain, sis, but I love who you are, and who you will become.

LL Cool Joe said...

Both Lori D and Veronique have said it for me.

I know my story is the other way around, but the pain and the comments etc are just the same and just as hurtful.

If someone isn't trans they'll never ever understand how it feels.

I haven't had any surgery. I bind, pack and do the best I can with this gross body I was born with. Sometimes I question whether I have the right to call myself a transman, but I know I'm a male trapped into a female body. I know what's in my heart, I know I think and feel like a man and that's all that matters. And sod what anyone else thinks.

Also, I'm proud to make people question gender norms, if I had been born male I would never have done that.

But it's a hard journey, so very hard.

alan said...

I often feel I lack the right words as well; the ones that would ease the pain of the unthinking question, or worse, the premeditated one.

I sometimes feel so lacking...

alan