Resistance

Is resistance futile for a transgender person? My answer is yes but with a caveat. We will only go as far as life circumstances permit. 

Those who are young today don't have as much of a slate to wipe clean. They are more like an empty vessel waiting to be filled with authenticity whereas we had to figure out how to partly empty ours and fill it to the top with as much of our true selves as possible. 

I have often asked myself what purpose resistance serves and the answer which came back was mostly about pleasing others instead of ourselves. Once we have done away with most of the guilt, shame and paralysis of being seen in public which at the outset needlessly resembles climbing Mount Everest, we are left standing there asking what the hesitation was for and why the opinions of others carried so much weight as to keep us so imprisoned.

That Sunday morning coffee with my young hire? It went great. 

Of course it did.