Where am I going with this? And by "this," I mean quitting my job security and leaping off the cliff to dive headfirst into my dreams, all while a voice inside of me tells me I'm an idiot who's acting like a child. But then there is this other voice - the one that always brings peace - and it says, "Hannah, you've done this before. What you can be, you must be. Go for it, sweet girl!"
I was reading an article this morning called "Truth and Consequences" that talks about how our society no longer wants to hear the truth. A man can change his body parts because his mind tells him he is a woman, and no one is allowed to tell him otherwise without consequences. I have nothing against gay individuals - I have many amazing gay friends. I cannot judge their world because I truly do not understand it. So the best thing I can do is love them right where they are at and keep living my life. But the truth is, you are a man in a man's body. Acknowledge that truth and choose to do whatever you choose to do anyways. Just because my children hate public school and believe that it is stupid and a waste of time, it does not mean they get to quit. The government would come after me if my children, at ages 9 and 11, identified as high school graduates who were officially done with school. Yes, that sounds so basic, but that is the basics of truth. Truth is so basic! I finally had to stop reading this "Truth and Consequences" article as it was making me feel sick to my stomach. The world is not a safe place for those who honor the truth.
Yes, the truth may be that you feel like a woman trapped in a man's body. So be a woman trapped in a man's body. Change your parts, but don't deny the truth that you were born in a man's body and you decided to be a woman or vice versa. Do not punish and retaliate on those who see that truth as well when it is undeniable.
I dress vintage almost every day. Yet that is not my defining role. Those clothes come off, and I am the woman, the body, and the soul I first arrived with. My corsets change my shape by day, but the truth is let out by night. It's undeniable.
Children are amazing truth speakers. Anyone who has kids knows the embarrassing moments of their child belting out in public, "Mom, why is that man walking so funny?"
