Identity

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[–]peakingatthemomentTranssexual (natal male), HSTS 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I’m not sure if my identity is the same as a female identity or what that would be like. I can never experience the world as anything or anyone other than myself. When I talk about identity or sense of self, I mean how I see or think of myself. It’s not meant to be a factual statement about me being something (other than maybe a transsexual). It’s just trying to explain how that type of identity develops or could develop. I don’t think it can be totally explained logically because when/if I came to my sense of self, it wouldn’t be through any conscious logic, I was a child. I was hurting and struggling to fit into a world where it didn’t feel like I fit.

[–]loveSloaneDebate King[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I get that, I think you articulate what it’s like to be trans very well. I just wish generally speaking it could be acknowledged that in actuality trans people are identifying as trans, not the opposite sex/gender. I feel like for me personally, a shift like that would make a huge difference in how I feel about a lot of the issues we discuss on this sub. I can understand and empathize with what you described, but I lose a lot of that empathy when what you described is followed by asserting that that means the trans person feeling that way is a wo/man, if that makes sense.

I didn’t mean to imply that you were egotistical/delusional at all, I meant that when people make the leap to claim to be the opposite sex/gender than they are that it seems to come from a place of ego/delusion. I know that’s not much better and I apologize for my wording.