I don’t want to say much, because this isn’t something I talk about in the way most people do. But I do want to say thank you, this article made me feel better about my own ways of dealing with things, I guess I’m the other side of the coin, a woman who spent my life fearing puberty and then living thought the hell of it, eventually giving in to the fact that I was stuck in a body that I wasn’t comfortable in but would never be able to change, for many of the reasons you yourself have listed. It’s not easy to talk about, but it’s important that you did. I try and be as open minded as I can with all sides of the ‘arguments’ that you talk about, but for such a long time I have felt exhaughsted by the hate that is thrown around constantly. Everyone is going to go through things in different ways, but there are things that we can all come together on, instead of hating and telling someone to shut up, stop and listen, if they’re trying to make a connection with you there is a point to it. Instead you were told that you didn’t fit into the catagory and thus learned to keep quiet. This isn’t what the ‘equality’ everyone is supposedly fighting for is supposed to be but I have felt for the longest time like there was no point to try and fight the tide of hate and slander that is thrown at all sides of the equation. I said I woudn’t write much and boom it’s a huge chunk right here. In the long run I just want to say thank you for showing your point of view, its hard but it was needed and if for nothing else, I feel more at peace with how I myself have felt about a lot of these things now that someone has given this all words and a meaning that I never managed. Thank you.