yukonnights
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Read an Opinion piece in the NY Times today that was both interesting and beautifully written. It's an uplifting reminder to all people to be true to our own inner truth. A short excerpt below.
Link to the article -> https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/opinion/sunday/trans-femininity.html
...In that dorm bathroom, I touched the mirror and felt the truth of its material surface, how it was a piece of glass with beveled edges, coated in silver that had oxidized in places, creating black spots like little islands on the edges of the frame. It was eerie to be on the other side of that glass, when I once stared at my reflection in a mirror so much like this one and believed I could never become the beautiful woman in my fantasies. But in that place where I had once been a man, I came to know for sure, in a way I didn’t before, that my history did not conflict with the reality of my womanhood. I was a woman no matter how I looked or acted, because as long as gender matters to the world, I will always be a woman to myself.
Link to the article -> https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/opinion/sunday/trans-femininity.html
...In that dorm bathroom, I touched the mirror and felt the truth of its material surface, how it was a piece of glass with beveled edges, coated in silver that had oxidized in places, creating black spots like little islands on the edges of the frame. It was eerie to be on the other side of that glass, when I once stared at my reflection in a mirror so much like this one and believed I could never become the beautiful woman in my fantasies. But in that place where I had once been a man, I came to know for sure, in a way I didn’t before, that my history did not conflict with the reality of my womanhood. I was a woman no matter how I looked or acted, because as long as gender matters to the world, I will always be a woman to myself.
