Being Transgender is incidental to the way a person is born.
Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2014 12:15 am
Being Transgender is incidental to the way a person is born. Being Cisgender is incidental to the way a person is born. Each person has a gender (what your mind is giving you as your sense of self), a sex (how chromosomes have settled to create that which is physical) and an orientation (which helps us to know whom we are attracted to). Though much of society would like these things to align with each other in a certain way there is no correct alignment. A person’s alignment of these things is again, incidental to that person’s birth.
For an individual that is Transgender, a byproduct of that is called gender dysphoria. Gender dysphoria is a feeling of disconnect between what the person knows to be their gender (sense of self) and their sex (the physical body) OR caused by being denied natural self-expression at an early age and then turmoil at the onset of puberty due to the physical changes. The degree of dysphoria differs from person to person and so also what is needed to manage it. But if left unmanaged the damage caused to the person continues to increase and so too the amount of healing that needs to be done in order to restore the sense of self to a healthy state.
Repression of a Transgender person’s gender (their sense of self) is natural when it is made clear at some point that their alignment of gender and sex do not match the societal norm. It is a very normal social behavior to want to fit in and so what is natural in the person’s nature is suppressed and hidden away in an attempt to do so. This suppression is like the person fighting to swim upstream when the mind naturally wants to flow gently down stream. This upstream fight normally starts at a young age and the degree to which the person swims against their nature depends largely on the idea of what is correct for the gender the social environment perceives them to be, the degree in which societal norms are being forced upon the child and what the child perceives as necessary to please others in order to fit into the surrounding society they live in.
(part one)
For an individual that is Transgender, a byproduct of that is called gender dysphoria. Gender dysphoria is a feeling of disconnect between what the person knows to be their gender (sense of self) and their sex (the physical body) OR caused by being denied natural self-expression at an early age and then turmoil at the onset of puberty due to the physical changes. The degree of dysphoria differs from person to person and so also what is needed to manage it. But if left unmanaged the damage caused to the person continues to increase and so too the amount of healing that needs to be done in order to restore the sense of self to a healthy state.
Repression of a Transgender person’s gender (their sense of self) is natural when it is made clear at some point that their alignment of gender and sex do not match the societal norm. It is a very normal social behavior to want to fit in and so what is natural in the person’s nature is suppressed and hidden away in an attempt to do so. This suppression is like the person fighting to swim upstream when the mind naturally wants to flow gently down stream. This upstream fight normally starts at a young age and the degree to which the person swims against their nature depends largely on the idea of what is correct for the gender the social environment perceives them to be, the degree in which societal norms are being forced upon the child and what the child perceives as necessary to please others in order to fit into the surrounding society they live in.
(part one)