However where trans-feminism fits into the female psyche is proving difficult for many women born women to accept. It seems that if you were born male but feel that you should really have been born female and make physical efforts to right what you see as wrong, then you are not only distancing yourself from the male community but you are also not really a part of the true female alternative community. Gender issues have reached new controversial heights with the introduction of liberalism and a growing acceptance within society that some people prefer to wear the bodies of their opposite gender. This does not make it easy on those of us who walk the middle road because the extremists in both camps are full of woe about allowing what was ostensibly an opposite gender individual to join their ranks simply because it is the way they feel, even if they have also taken the significant step of having surgery performed so that their body is more in keeping with the bodies they prefer.
If one considers that the human body is simply a host vehicle, a receptacle in which our spirits are contained, it is possible to better appreciate how people can feel that they are not born of the sexual gender they should have been. If you take this a step further and suggest that the reincarnation of the soul is partly to blame and that as a result the individuals in question may have lived a previous life as a woman rather than a man it can been seen that the issue can really bring some fairly complex concepts to the fore.
Of course feminism rights protestors are unlikely to consider the possibility of reincarnation as an excuse that allows trans-feminists to join their ranks as an equal, so where do women see trans-feminism or rather how do they categorize it? Women and men both recognize that trans-feminism creates unusual relationship issues that would not ordinarily be thought a consideration in a more common female/male relationship mix. Neither would the issue be raised in which the partners are the identical gender. However once an individual accepts surgery in order to change their original gender many people in both gender camps argue that they are a completely separate ‘species’.
On the surface the argument might appear to have some credibility however that’s without also recognizing the human factor that negates gender barriers or differences. A human is a human is a human……. No matter what gender they are born or decide to change towards trans-feminism is simply something that happens and does not denigrate the human species in anyway. On a conceptual level trans-feminism is a state of mind as much as it is the physical presence of an individual gender. If someone wants to be accepted as a woman rather than a man is that honesty of purpose something the rest of us should or even possess a right to argue against? It seems reasonable to suggest that men who feel that they should really be women have nothing to make original females fear, even though some do.