Speck,
I agree with you to an extent. I have been going to a therapist moving on to my transition to a woman hopefully later this year. It has occurred to me several times over the last year that while we can all live our lives as close to be the woman we feel and know we are inside there is a part of life we will or have never lived. Growing up with a sister and having all daughters (3), along with seeing the women at work, I know there are many things us transsexuals will not have experienced. some of which is bearing children and the many difficulties facing bias that women are not equal to men but are expected to play a different role in society. I am not crucifying you at all and understadn your point. The thing with at least me is that this has been a conflict I have lived with for as long as I can remember and if I had a choice back then I would have expereiced all of these (except for child birth), that you are i think referring to. I think we who are transitioning need to respect that there are some differences, however i think that once we begin a serious path towards becoming our true selves than we do in fact experience a great deal of challenges. I red in one of the posts on a different site that the work place needs to understand that a person who transitions is no less a person. This is because of the many challenges they face. If they complete the transition it means they are a strong individual who can really face adversity and still come through it. In that since we women of late are the same but as in every case in our lives we have to respect the accomplishments and challenges of how each person as individuals have had to face. Thank you for the post. It made me think again about the things my wife has had to face and how my being a woman relates to her past versus our future together with me as a woman.
Jaycee