All of you should watch this.

[lightningandsnow]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a95JP8i8GuE

Transsexual writer Julia Serano performing her spoken-word piece, "Cocky"

"If I seem a bit cocky, it's because I refuse to make apologies for my body anymore"

[Warpy]

1. There is no way for me to understand the transgendered

because I have no point of reference, except that I didn't choose to fit what my body shape said I was supposed to be. I don't think it's my job to understand it. It's just my job to respect the fact that other people are living it and they have the same right to be accepted for who they are that everybody else has, pre op or post op or not even wanting the op.

This rant brought me a little closer to understanding. She's brilliant.