My Transgender Waypoints: These Ideas Helped Me, So I’m Sharing
This is a way. There is no single way. Still many of us end up at the same points.
Obstacles and resistance to everyone’s paths take many forms. Often they are external, sometimes offering physical danger and threat, but most often we are our own barrier to progress. It might be our fears, our attachments, addictions, or simply our ignorance and lack of self. Whatever the reason, very few take a direct path to a waypoint. Still, we often arrive at common waypoints and the paths leading to them are slowly worn into animal tracks and then paths.
Sometimes society recognizes the need to ease the inevitable journey and creates things like gender-affirming care, which are equivalent to well-marked and supervised roads with plenty of warning signs and emergency exits. Without these roadways, we will still crash through the brush and the wild, struggling to become ourselves. But more of us will wander into despair, dead ends, or become victims of predators. A safe road benefits everyone, as it not only helps those that need it, but it also helps those that explore it only to turn around before they make life-altering choices they might regret.
For me, it’s a strange feeling to read the writing of others, and, because they have not been on…
