Gender Identity: More Than Meets the Eye

For me, gender identity is more complicated than masculine and feminine or even transvestite and transsexual.

I don’t want a gender reassignment/‘sex change’ yet at the same time my motivation to cross dress goes way too deep for an uncomplicated case of transvestism. Dressing ‘en femme’ now and again won’t satisfy me.

I’d more readily describe myself as transgendered, or even third gendered - neither male nor female.

Modern science may well have found physical evidence to explain why we’re like this.

Meantime, we struggle under a bi-polar gender regime in which only two mutually exclusive gender options are recognized.

How does it feel to be transgendered/third gendered in an either/or society? It hurts. It’s suffocating.

I’ve read pieces in which the pain of trans is described as being treated by others like a non-person, feeling invisible.

Yet worse still is not merely having your identity disregarded by others but having no choice other than to endure their insistence on choosing.

Read more and watch the videos at joswift.blogspot.com.

Georgia State Employee Fired - Case Goes Federal

A former Georgia state employee claimed Tuesday in a federal court that top Georgia legislative officials fired her because she would come to work dressed as a female as she prepared for a sex-change procedure to transform her from man to woman. Vandy Beth Glenn said Tuesday she was illegally fired from her job as a legislative editor for the Georgia General Assembly after she told her boss she was going to live as a woman full time.

Read this story in its entirety at miamiherald.com.

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