Compost on Nostr: Let me address the #trans people are "sick" comments. I am an older #transgender ...

Let me address the #trans people are "sick" comments.

I am an older #transgender person who has had about half a century to think about this issue.

I grew up in an environment where there was zero awareness of this issue because I was born with a male body and raised as one.

My childhood and teenagehood years were a miserable experience of trying to figure out what was wrong with me. I knew even then, with zero awareness, that there was something wrong with me. In all honesty, I did a lot of work on myself to try to understand what I was doing wrong.

Even after meeting #lgbtq people, it did not make me identify as one. I was still convinced that I was wrong.

Then in my 30s, as I tried to answer the question of who I was, I slowly understood that the only thing wrong with me was that I was not myself and I had no idea who I was.

I was thirsty to be at peace with myself and the only thing that was chattering was to know myself.

I was just desperate to be okay and because I did not know who I was I could not love myself, that was a privilege I had to fight for.

It took me about a decade to fully understand that I am not a man. I am a woman born with a man's body. Now I am extremely confident with that and in fact, I am more at peace and I am slowly starting to love myself.

So when you hate trans people because you think they should not exist, you are denying people the right to love themselves.

You are denying LOVE. Who the hell are you to deny someone the right to love themselves and tell them what they should love?

Trans people are not sick, they are desperate to be at peace with themselves. And if you have never had to walk that path, you are not qualified to tell someone who they should be or love.

It is none of your fucking business and with all due respect, GO FUCK YOURSELF.