It should have been the proudest day of my life. But I was in pretty bad shape. You see I was suffering from a condition known as gender dysphoria, which is defined by the medical profession as acute distress caused by feeling that my gender differs from the anatomy I was born with. The official diagnostic manual describes the symptoms of the condition.
Trust me, it is extremely distressing and it does not go away. Many choose suicide to escape the incessant internal dialogue and intense feelings. Others choose to transition gender to bring their physical body into alignment with how they feel. I chose this latter course, though I went pretty close to taking an overdose of sleeping pills at my hotel on the evening of that agonising Australia Day.
We usually find peace of mind but frequently lose other important things along the way, especially families, friends and jobs. We become the butt of jokes for insecure, angry blokes and objects of revulsion for very holy people who enjoy direct access to God. https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=135762874
in my initial response there, might, in time anyway, enable more to feel some empathy with transgender people.
Getting to that position would undoubtedly be challenging for many, yet sure feels fair to an even more insecure (now anyway) and smaller minority than the gays and lesbians who have fought the good battle.