Saturday, October 6, 2012

Freedom

Consider that (trans)women, and especially those who are post-transtion, think being a woman is the greatest freedom in the world. Women (born female) may not agree because they were born to a sex and gender many experienced as oppressed or suppressed, and while that is true to a large measure, women don't realize that just being female is also a great freedom.

Women (born male) don't have a female's experience of birth, puberty and life innate to oneself. They've had to live inside a body which defied their own mind. They didn't care for the privilege of being male or a man, it isn't who they are. They were oppressed by their role and suppressed by the body.

So, when they transition and are recognized as women, they are freed from their bonds, given the greatest freedom they most wanted. Being a woman. Woman may take their being for granted and worry about the world around them and live in, but they could learn from transwomen the simple freedom of being a woman.

Women know this freedom, it often gets lost in their lives. Transwomen don't know this freedom until they achieve it. And in the end, it's just the simple and great freedom of being a woman. What's not to understand? What's not to share as women?

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