Your own map

In theory authenticity should greatly remove our self-conciousness. In other words, the more we approach our core identity, the better we should feel in our own skin and be able to disregard opinion.

This is a test we can try for ourselves to determine who we are and once we get past fear and stigma, find a resting baseline which becomes our normal. We get over the temptation for comparison and find our identity within the vacuum of our own introspection.

The hardest part is to detach ourselves from a script we bought into very early in life. The older we currently are, the more it seeped into every pore of our being. To escape we should see authenticity as being synonymous with uniqueness which is why I never worry about definitions and use them loosely. 

'Trans" means very little to me at this point other than as a rough guideline as it offers no map of where to go or what to do.