Cootie-file

Why is there ever pushback from people about transition?

 

Why should it matter to them?  It is not their life.

 

It is not a threat.  Is it?  Recruitment efforts aside - transition is not a contagion.  There is not some rare Transsexual Cootie that someone will tag you with that you cannot shake off.

 

But the fact that transitioners exist at all forces some to re-examine their own lives.  If we can be so sure that we would take such drastic steps.  How do they know who they are?  What events, facts, spirits can they point to that says "This is who I am.  This is what defines me."

 

They look in the wrong places and when they do not see what they expect - they translate it as threat.

 

Try as they may they do not understand (comprehend, internalize, grok).

 

It is an unnoticed sense, that is ignorable because the inputs from it have always been in harmony.