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Taking it for granted ...
Mar. 17th, 2004 08:46 pmBeing in the bathtub seems to inspire odd bouts of introspection in me.
All I could think of last night was the fact that it had been over 3 weeks since I'd shaved my legs - and I was starting to look long overdue. Shaving my legs is something that I do as little as possible - especially in the winter. It's annoying as hell to do, and gets to being a royal pain in the ass when it has to be done a couple times a week.
Yet, for someone like my sister Kathryn, she'd spent many years looking forward to being able to do this thing that I do begrudingly. No, Kathryn isn't a kid sister. She's my sister as a part of her Family of Choice, and she'd spent the first 18 years of her life as a boy before working towards living her life full-time as a female.
The one thing I'd spent the entire span of her life doing as a sort of obligation, she probably is glad that she can do, as it is validation of her female-ness. And this is most likely the case for pretty much any transwoman.
So, the next time I begin to bitch and whine about having to shave my legs, and what a pain in the ass it is, I will try to remember that for someone like Kathryn, it's something that she wants to be able to do. It's something that makes her feel more female, more comfortable in her own skin, in who she truly is inside.
All I could think of last night was the fact that it had been over 3 weeks since I'd shaved my legs - and I was starting to look long overdue. Shaving my legs is something that I do as little as possible - especially in the winter. It's annoying as hell to do, and gets to being a royal pain in the ass when it has to be done a couple times a week.
Yet, for someone like my sister Kathryn, she'd spent many years looking forward to being able to do this thing that I do begrudingly. No, Kathryn isn't a kid sister. She's my sister as a part of her Family of Choice, and she'd spent the first 18 years of her life as a boy before working towards living her life full-time as a female.
The one thing I'd spent the entire span of her life doing as a sort of obligation, she probably is glad that she can do, as it is validation of her female-ness. And this is most likely the case for pretty much any transwoman.
So, the next time I begin to bitch and whine about having to shave my legs, and what a pain in the ass it is, I will try to remember that for someone like Kathryn, it's something that she wants to be able to do. It's something that makes her feel more female, more comfortable in her own skin, in who she truly is inside.
