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Be a Man and Let Me Be a Woman
I am a transgender woman, and I am not your threat.
I am so tired of the rugged, macho cowboy, all-American-male trope attacking the transgender community. They act as if my being a transgender woman steals their masculinity, like a parasite attached to their genitalia while I threaten their womenfolk.
I couldn’t care less about their male insecurities except when they are weaponized against the transgender community, and I have yet to see evidence of transgender sexual attacks that come anywhere near the level of sexual crimes committed by male family members and “trusted” male professionals like doctors, coaches, priests, ministers, teachers, etc. every day.
My gender is not a rejection of being a man, I never was one. I was born with a physical defect, not a mental one. I have a medical condition, not a psychological one.
Get your facts straight!
I know that is hard to believe, particularly if you believe that body parts dictate gender.
They don’t.
Gender is in the mind, not in your crotch. Just like red hair or being left handed, genitalia is just a part of a body, not a measure of who you are as a person. But for many men, their penis is the center of their universe. I know, I have witnessed many…
