Who get to take the blindfold off?

Who gets to take the blindfold off?

 

I was on the treadmill just now and sort of watching Covert Affairs on TV. I've seen it before but not enough to know the characters by name...but the blonde girl is really hot...but i digress. There is one guy on the show that is blind, or nearly anyway. well on the show he was giving a girl a glimpse into his world. He put a blindfold on her and helped her walk the sidewalk in DC. They got to an intersection and with a lot of help from him she managed to cross the street without getting killed. When she got onto the sidewalk and was safely accross she pulled the blindfold off and with a big smile she looked at him and said, "I did it!". Just then it hit her...he doen't get to take the blindfold off.

Welcome to our world, those of us who have transitioned and to those who will. Once you transition, you don't get to take the blindfold off. On bad hair days you don't get to be a boy....when you're makeup just doesn't look right, you don't get to be a boy. Transition, for better of worse, is just that. Living your life as the gender you identify with, not the sex you were born with, 24/7/365.

Transitioning isn't easy, but we don't want the sympathy of others. It just burns some of us when a CD/TV trys to tell us they know what it's like, what we're going through, or how to do it. Sorry, but you don't know, can't know, because you can take the blindfold off whenever you want. That doesn't make us better, or worse....just one more way to recognize our differences. CD/TV's want us to recognize them, fair enough....but please don't demean us and try and tell us you know how we feel or what we've been through. If you did, you'd be TS.

Transitioning isnt easy.... but I wouldn't have it anyother way.

Laura