Fairfax, VA, USA. Gender and gendering are the social and cultural categorizations embraced by post-modern theory.

They are not the reason that men and women of transsexual history have surgery to bring their outward primary and secondary sexual characteristics into congruence with their brain and the innate sexual identity with which they were born.


Transsexuality is a birth condition with physical causes, not a social construct or cultural imperative. When I was four, I did not think


or even,


What I thought, using the words I had available at early age, was



At three and four, I had no glimmer that post-modernism would attempt to recreate human biology and the world around me into a series of social and cultural deconstructions. All I knew was my own personal, physical reality that I was a girl and something had gone terribly wrong in the execution of my genetic plan.

I say all this because when I do, when any transsexual man or woman does, they are confronted by non-transsexuals who tell me that I don't know what I am talking about and only the non-transsexual really understands what I am thinking. When I reassert what I know to be true, and that post-modern theory ignores biological reality — my biological reality, I am told I am misremembering, just plain wrong, or consciously lying.

A simple statement threatens to disrupt the post-modern fabric


and all the fancy academic jargon cannot change that fact and their precious post-modern gender theories crumble into pseudo-intellectual nonsense if they cannot accommodate the fact that I knew by the age of four to be true


as are all the other transsexual women in the world



We are not social constructions or cultural extensions of the patriarchy. Any post-modern declaration on gender is worthless if it does not consider and address human neurobiology and physiology.

But, to address human neurobiology and physiology requires a minimum working knowledge of the hard sciences — biology, genetics and genomics, medicine, embryology, neuroscience, and computational biology — disciplines held at arms length by Post Modernism, if not denigrated and denied by its proselytizing gender theoreticians.

If an transsexual man or woman states that gender or gendering was not the underlying cause of their transsexualism or the driving reason they transition from one genital sex to the other, they will most likely be told by the post-mod advocates of gender and queer theory that they are in denial. Because the experience of transsexual men and women out living in the real world does fit the academic theory, the lives and self-knowledge of transsexual men and women are discounted and devalued by the academics whose careers depend on their theories being right.

I am not transgendered. transsexual men and women are not transgendered. Our brain's sex identity was set before we were born. We are neither transgendered or part of someone's gender theory.

We exist and must be accounted for in any explanation that purports to understand and describe human existence. We exist. We know what we know.

Most transsexual men and women are assimilationists. We are virtually indistinguishable from cradle men and women, fading into the woodwork of society.

If in our initial stages we associate with the transgendered community, by a few years post-op we have disappeared into our lives, loves, and families. We leave the transgendered community not because we reject or condemn their choices but because we realize, as transsexual men and women, we have so little in common with them.

We are born with transsexuality, a physical condition we strive to correct. Once we resolve our transsexual birth condition, once we transition, we no longer are transsexual. We are men and women with transsexualism in our past, much as I am a woman with polio in my past.

As I am no longer a polio victim, I am no longer an transsexual woman. [cf. Note]

Once we have come out, once we have transitioned, most, if not all, of the trans-related violence and discrimination ceases. The discrimination and violence we do face, we face as women, especially when we are older.

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