Two Transgender Definitions
Living stealth: Living your life so that as few people as possible are aware that your current sex doesn't match the one you were assigned at birth.
Passing: Presenting yourself in such a manner that people you encounter in your day-to-day life don't realize that your current sex doesn't match the one you were assigned at birth; being recognized as the gender with which you identify.
I don't have any real interest in living stealth, but the lack of passing wears on me. The idea of spending several more years (possibly all of them) being called "ma'am," and even "ladies" when I'm in the company of a woman, flat-out exhausts me sometimes. The only thing harder would be continuing to live a lie.
Passing: Presenting yourself in such a manner that people you encounter in your day-to-day life don't realize that your current sex doesn't match the one you were assigned at birth; being recognized as the gender with which you identify.
I don't have any real interest in living stealth, but the lack of passing wears on me. The idea of spending several more years (possibly all of them) being called "ma'am," and even "ladies" when I'm in the company of a woman, flat-out exhausts me sometimes. The only thing harder would be continuing to live a lie.
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Capiz
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Jun 14, 2012 08:46AM
if it helps at all, my husband's hair is as long as mine is, and he's shorter than me. Despite the broad shoulders, the five oclock shadow and the obvious definition of his chest, whenever we're together in public, there is an extremely likely chance that at least two people will address us as "ladies". I know it's not the same even a little, but it happens to the cisgendered, too.
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