Inside & Outside

To explain it simply, like everyone else, we all see who we are on the inside and want to show it on the outside, while everyone else sees what's on the outside and projects that to the inside. The only difference is that while everyone else's inside and outside general match, transgender people have a mismatch between the two.

The inside is the same as society sets for sex and gender standard, so everyone else thinks our outside is our inside when it's the opposite. Only the few who can pass as expected by society are lucky not to be faced with the embarrassment and humilitation, and often the hate, anger and violence, and always the discrimination.

The lucky ones don't like to be seen as and with the other transpeople, so they become silent, living stealth as it's called, and then usually turn and walk away, not a word said to help. They don't want their history to be public, their life to be jeopardized, and their person to be a target. So they don't do anything.

And the unlucky ones face it everyday they walk out the front door. Their inside is who they are, not their obvious outside others see and society condemns. And all the protections in the world won't help them against people who don't understand, don't accept and don't feel a reason not to act against them.

All because of their outside which isn't who they really are, it's the inside, no different than anyone else, just as normal as everyone else, and just wanting to get through life like eveyone else. It's not rocket science to know and understand, it's human nature.