Awesome cartoon about Gender Identity & Transitioning.

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Hope you guys enjoy this too. Here it is on the artists website: http://www.justinhubbell.com/not-a-race-longform/

Very nicely put. It's important to keep messages like that out there and part of the information available, as there are new people starting out every day. To be successful, transitioning has to go from, "Not Me" to "True Self"...not, "Some Other Not Me".

I completely agree. The process of figuring out who one's "true self" is (inside and out) is always slower & bumpier than expected.

You are so right, that this is such an important message for people who are just starting to figure out their sex & gender identities. It helps to expect a long and nuanced process of personal evolution...and to know that where they end up is likely to be amazingly different from where they might initially imagine themselves. It is so important to stay open/positive to the process and the possibilities.

Thanks for replying Edenthiel - I am so glad to know that someone else thinks this is important

There's more of this around, which is good, as many people (me included) have run into that packaged expectation held by some of the 'gatekeepers' - that there is a single transgender narrative, a single experience, and a single desired outcome. For everyone. Which is obviously ridiculous, everyone transitions in their own way and time. I was talking to a guy who started his transition with black market hormones because he thought because he didn't fit this stereotype of a transgender person, he would be refused clearance to transition at all. Doctors would do well to adopt this more inclusive spectrum point of view, if only to keep people from doing this themselves, unregulated, with potentially dodgy hormones. < ----- sorry, tangent.