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[Reblog] Breaking the Gender Covenant
12 years ago
Love is the spirit of this church, and service is its law.
This is our great covenant: To dwell together in peace, to seek the truth in love, and to help one another. This wonderful article comes to us from a member of the Jewish tradition:
Joy Ladin wrote:“Did anyone ever teach you to be true to yourself?” a therapist once asked me. I had come to her in the midst of what I call my gender crisis — the physical, mental, and emotional breakdown I experienced after 40-plus years of living as the male I knew I wasn’t. I had just told her about my shame about hiding for decades my lifelong sense that I was female. Having failed to keep faith with my own gender identity, how could I now break my covenant with my wife, my children, and all who knew me as a man?
Read more here.
Joy Ladin wrote:“Did anyone ever teach you to be true to yourself?” a therapist once asked me. I had come to her in the midst of what I call my gender crisis — the physical, mental, and emotional breakdown I experienced after 40-plus years of living as the male I knew I wasn’t. I had just told her about my shame about hiding for decades my lifelong sense that I was female. Having failed to keep faith with my own gender identity, how could I now break my covenant with my wife, my children, and all who knew me as a man?
Read more here.
Im feeling to shitty to read more. Sorry. <:[
I have my own crisis going on at the moment. >X[