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Thankyou Daan fir your question, in my 16 years living as my true self I have never experienced a problem using the female rest or change rooms. I have a female partner and we both lead a very accepting life from the Broken Hill Community for every red neck in Broken Hill their are 10 people that accept people for who they are not what they are. This vilification incident has enabled a paradigm shift in attitudes to take place in the Silver City, I suggest Broken Hill would be better to be called the Rainbow City as acceptance of people of difference has taken a massive shift in the last two years. I get miners, ex inmates, footy players, bikers show their support to myself on a daily basis.
Great to hear, keep up the good fight
Another thing that's maybe a bit too heavy for a footy forum main board, but I've always struggled to get my head around the concept of gender. With sexuality it's easy because I can identify with it myself. I'm attracted to women, it's instinctual and there's nothing I could do about it. So it's easy to see how someone could be attracted to a different gender or both. But at the same time, I've never really found that my identity was really informed by any sort of 'maleness'. I guess it's hard for me to understand what it would be like to feel female without really having any idea what it's even like to feel male myself. Maybe that's just because my identify fairly neatly aligns with societally accepted 'male characteristics' so to speak, but it's something I can't quite put my finger on. Not that I have any reason to doubt someone would put themselves through what trans people have been subjected to without good reason, I know there's something different about the brain chemistry. Just wondering if you could maybe shed some light on some experiences or feelings you had when you were younger that helped you identify yourself as female.