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Transgender Awareness Week

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For Transgender awareness week, I kind of wanted to say something as someone who is trans.

The most important part of spreading awareness should be about the idea of not making assumptions.

Every trans person experiences things differently. Every one has their own narrative.

There really is no such thing as a single transgender narrative.

Transgender does not automatically mean “third gender”. There are people who identify with the Binary (like me). 

Transgender is an umbrella term that includes non-binaries too, but it doesn’t only belong to non-binary OR binary people exclusively.

A trans person’s legitimacy doesn’t depend on whether they ever have surgery or take hormones.

Not all trans people identify as Queer.

The word “transsexuality” sounds like something related to sexuality, but it’s not. Sexual orientation and sexual identity are terms used to describe who we are attracted to and who we love.

Heterosexual, gay, lesbian, and bisexual are words you are probably familiar with. They describe sexual orientations. We all have a sexual orientation, trans people included.

We all also have a gender identity – the inner feeling that we are a man or a woman, that we are masculine or feminine, or perhaps somewhere on a “continuum” between masculine and feminine.

Being transgendered or transsexual is about gender identity. For trans people, their bodies do not match their inner experience of gender.

Being trans is not the same as being gay – (from the booklet: ‘Families in Transition; a Resource Guide for Parents of Trans Youth’, by CTYS)