Originally Posted by
KellyJameson
Transitioning can be made more problematic if gender stereotypes are added into the mix. I have always cried easily but only in specific circumstances. I can be hurt deeply by cruelty and sometimes the tears of others will bring me to tears.
This is simply me and does not make me more or less of a woman.
Try to let go of generalizations about what it means to be a woman. I have known far more women than men and I have yet to see anything that I could say is exclusive to being a woman when it comes to the mind and emotions.
It is true that I have seen tears coming from women far more often than from men but this is likely the greater social freedom women have to cry. At the same time the hardest people I have ever met have been women and men are far more sensitive than they let on.
Men may throw a ball farther than women but that which is of the mind shrinks dramatically the differences between men and women.
You cannot be a woman if you are not a individual at the same time. You will only remain a false echo of what you think it means to be a woman.
Is this not the same thing you are trying to escape?