Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More

by Janet Mock

Barbara Smith writes, “then each of us will not only know better how to live, but how to dream.”

The fact that I admit to being uncertain doesn’t discount my womanhood. It adds value to it.

On the road toward self-revelation, we make little compromises in an effort to appease those we love, those who are invested in us, those who have dreams for us.

If a trans woman who knows herself and operates in the world as a woman is seen, perceived, treated, and viewed as a woman, isn’t she just being herself? She isn’t passing ; she is merely being.