For some people, TG is nothing more than a game. For others, it consumes their entire life.
Please read the caption first. I wanted to post something melancholy but hopeful for the Christmas Eve caption, and overall, I am pretty happy with it. I have close friends that struggle with gender identity, and it certainly isn't easily solvable with a gypsy's curse or a loving auntie's magic spell.
It is all so simplistic when it comes to TG Captions, and that they barely ever scratch the surface of all the struggles that face these brave people, day after day.
One girl I knew back when she was married and still presenting as a male. She has since been divorced twice, and most of the family thinks she's insane for upending everything for this "silly fantasy" of being the woman she thinks that she is. Her daughter is pretty ambivalent either way, and one person that could have been a support to her has now passed on ., her first wife.
Another was thrown out of a very comfortable life when she came out at age 19, and ended up homeless, drifting around and doing what she could to survive. Luckily, she did enough to get by and has a regular job, a good boyfriend, and a decent amount of friends .. none of whom know she isn't who or what she says she is .. as she hasn't been able to do much more than black market hormones.
Neither of them are thriving, but they are both surviving .. and do what they do because they know no other way to live. I worry for them, along with the others I've met through this blog and the Haven as well. The holidays can be rough for anyone, and the baggage they carry is enormous enough without society telling them they are freaks that shouldn't be able to use any public bathroom. They don't want to be called out or separated, they just want to be the random person that blends in with the rest of the crowds. To be like .. everyone else.
So, I hope that everyone that reads this blog understands the difference between the fictionalized fantasy that most of us portray here and in TG Fiction and Captions ... and the often brutal nature of living life on this planet as an outcast, especially within your own mind versus your body. Please stay safe, and cherish your family and friends, and keep them close .. and pray that those with closed eyes and minds will open them to help those unlike themselves, and melt away the biases like a quick flurry of snow on a sunny day. That is my Christmas wish to you and yours!
I'll be back tomorrow with a more whimsical caption. I promise. Comment if you wish. I will respond to anyone that does so. Keep the joyous spirit going through the rest of the year!