transition in a transantagonistic world requires risking access to social world, care networks, etc. this sacrifice in pursuit of personal truth has transformational potential.
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our willingness to sacrifice everything abolishes our fear of loss. Transgendered people know what sacrifice is. One of my MTF friends has spoken of transition as “crossing the fear barrier.” We feel commanded to do this crazy thing, to slash the ropes of family ties and crush the bones of our previous values. As we start to walk through the fire, we have the opportunity for a reprieve, as Abraham also received: we do not have to be murderers and no one has to die. We can transition safely and usually less catastrophically than we feared. But by our willingness to have made the worst possible sacrifice, we are reborn and have a new relationship with the powers that be.
⤷ Tucker Lieberman, “American Transsexual Sacrifice” in From the Inside Out, Morty Diamond