What The Term Transgender Soul Means To Me
TransgenderSoul is a term that captures the story at the heart of our journey to heal the split between our gender identity (the spirit) and our body (the flesh). We each have a personal and unique story about what this conflict between the spirit and the flesh means to us. This split in us and the ensuing psychological conflict can create pain, suffering, confusion and despair which is made worse by the lack of understanding, compassion, caring, and justice within our own families, schools, faith communities, work spaces, physician offices, and even therapist consulting rooms. We indeed find ourselves outsiders within our own communities and culture. Even those closest to us, our own family members, may withhold their acceptance and love from us when they learn about our struggle with gender and our body. We can learn to open our hearts to compassion for ourselves while seeing clearly the untruths that others tell us about ourselves. We can and will find our own voice and discover for ourselves the meaning of our own experiences, rather then accept the misguided belief of others that would otherwise diminish and devalue our true nature.
The word TransgenderSoul is used by me to mean the inner image we have of ourselves as a gendered and sexual person whether or not that image has been made in the flesh through use of sex hormones or surgery. However we experience our TransgenderSoul, this inner image calls us to seek out the truth about who we are and then to live out that truth as a genuine person in what ever way we determine is valid and meaningful for us.
TransgenderSoul is a term that captures the story at the heart of our journey to heal the split between our gender identity (the spirit) and our body (the flesh). We each have a personal and unique story about what this conflict between the spirit and the flesh means to us. This split in us and the ensuing psychological conflict can create pain, suffering, confusion and despair which is made worse by the lack of understanding, compassion, caring, and justice within our own families, schools, faith communities, work spaces, physician offices, and even therapist consulting rooms. We indeed find ourselves outsiders within our own communities and culture. Even those closest to us, our own family members, may withhold their acceptance and love from us when they learn about our struggle with gender and our body. We can learn to open our hearts to compassion for ourselves while seeing clearly the untruths that others tell us about ourselves. We can and will find our own voice and discover for ourselves the meaning of our own experiences, rather then accept the misguided belief of others that would otherwise diminish and devalue our true nature.
The word TransgenderSoul is used by me to mean the inner image we have of ourselves as a gendered and sexual person whether or not that image has been made in the flesh through use of sex hormones or surgery. However we experience our TransgenderSoul, this inner image calls us to seek out the truth about who we are and then to live out that truth as a genuine person in what ever way we determine is valid and meaningful for us.