My reply to the Human Life Review.

[Jehanne]

For those who are not aware, this is a right-wing, pro-life web site.

Here's a recent anti-transgender article:

Identity Alphabet Soup

As a transgender female, I replied to the article, a reply that they did not publish:

You played yourself with that comment, thinking they had deleted it.......but anyway, here's what I think of your situation. You're entitled to feel how you feel about these things, in fact, more than entitled.......you are actually right to feel how you feel. But perhaps, your emotions are making you see things in a distorted way. In terms of principles, you don't have much to stand on, as your approach is not principled, but rather, very personal, making it hard to justify what you believe, in an objective sense. Of course, objectivity is only half of the reality equation, the other half being subjectivity, a realm I believe you are already very much exploring, but that you should grow to attain a deeper understanding of. Your shallow emotional responses will only take you so far. You say, "I am happy with Me", and there's nothing wrong with being happy with yourself at all, but you shouldn't expect others to be happy with you, just because you are happy with you. Being your own cheerleader is a bit of an intellectual dead end.......it's immature at best, and deluding at worst. If other people sometimes mistake you for being a woman, isn't that a good thing? Isn't that what you're going for? Maybe it is, and I'm just misinterpreting that sentence.

I am also an ex-Catholic, but I am not an atheist. More like, just a believer without a religion. What turned you away from Catholicism, and made you embrace atheism?

I was walking on a residential sidewalk yesterday in another town 100 miles from where I live, while visiting an adult son. One out of a group of teenagers said, "Whose that?" when I walked past their home, followed by another saying "Weirdo". I said nothing to them before or after.

This is intolerance in America. As far as why I embraced agnostic atheism, abandoning Catholicism, I got to the point in my life where I no longer believed in any of it.