Comments on: Femininity/masculinity http://tarald.wordpress.com/2008/05/17/femininitymasculinity/ poetry and transsexualism Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:41:06 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Jacky V. http://tarald.wordpress.com/2008/05/17/femininitymasculinity/#comment-50 Jacky V. Mon, 19 May 2008 03:00:04 +0000 http://tarald.wordpress.com/?p=59#comment-50 I love this paragraph: "My childhood is an archeological site. I can find pieces and put them together to make a boy, or rearrange them and make a girl. But the truth is probably to be found in the middle. If you dig in the ground for real, you might find a sigarette from the 90’s, a nail from the 1800’s, a piece of a tool from the middle ages and much more. And it may have nothing to do with each other or the building that’s about to be constructed at the same site." Yes, it's easy to construct a nice, coherent story when one looks for it. As for the questionnaire . . .I'm so glad I didn't have to answer anything like that! It actually makes me very angry when "one true way" of being transsexual is singled out. I love this paragraph: “My childhood is an archeological site. I can find pieces and put them together to make a boy, or rearrange them and make a girl. But the truth is probably to be found in the middle. If you dig in the ground for real, you might find a sigarette from the 90’s, a nail from the 1800’s, a piece of a tool from the middle ages and much more. And it may have nothing to do with each other or the building that’s about to be constructed at the same site.”

Yes, it’s easy to construct a nice, coherent story when one looks for it.

As for the questionnaire . . .I’m so glad I didn’t have to answer anything like that! It actually makes me very angry when “one true way” of being transsexual is singled out.

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