In a world where we seem to have lost the capacity to understand and affirm each other, the thread of transgender experience offers a valuable resource for transcending our differences, gendered and otherwise.
We are needed in society - precisely because we cross a gender boundary which is taken for granted so complacently by the majority.
To be a transsexual is a magical, wondrous thing...
She, with her eyes of different colors, and I, a crossdresser, two people among the many unlike us in that place, were each as normal as a wheat field in the sun. We are, simply, facts of life.
The first great struggle is with self, then "all that is required" is to convince society, parents, partners, medical professionals and the legal system.
If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.
~ Katharine Hepburn
The story of Jhos Singer, FTM transgender maggid (Jewish spiritual leader)
I go further than to just say that my gender crossing was not a result of "God's mistake." I say to them that who I am is a marvelous gift from God...
2004 article from the San Francisco Chronicle about the Transcendence Gospel Choir
Originally appeared in Transgender Tapestry #097, Spring 2002.
On Being Gifted