But Jake, to someone who has lived most or all of his/her -life thinking and feeling that they were always just the opposite, that there was some kind of accident of birth, it doesn’t seem to them as if it’s a deep rejection.
Perhaps to them the deepest rejection was in denying what they felt or knew all of their life.
We can’t really know the agony that they go through or went through because of their experience.
It IS a kind of celebration to THEM.
Probably a poor analogy, but was there any celebrating when the Berlin Wall came down, Jakob? People were able to cross to both sides - to the other side? There was such a sense of freedom right? That first real crack in the wall? Was that a deep rejection?
Or was it a celebration of something being destroyed that wasn’t right in the first place or felt to be right and the affirmation of a new beginning?
What is that Native American saying - Lord, grant that I may not judge my neighbor until I have walked a mile in his moccasins - or in this case, under his skin, or into his brain, mind, genitals, et cetera.
I think the deepest rejection is the rejection of self and the denial of who we know we really are but need to pretend to be otherwise because of society’s stupid tunnel vision and stigmatas.
Even if someone’s gender isn’t in reality a “mistake”, who are we to say how someone “ought” or “should” live when it comes to gender? Though I know you weren’t saying that.