You Won’t See a Trans Story Like Mine on TV
The media puts trans women in a box. I dare to step outside it.
UPDATE 2023: I wrote all these essays back when I was immersed in trans ideology. I detransitioned and I’ve changed my mind about many things. https://youtube.com/@RayAlexWilliams?si=JIEdBcopAIxOPtEW
Some of my earliest memories involve a kaleidoscope of cross-gender fantasies. At a young age, I had dreams of being treated like a girl in Sunday school, dreams of gangs of girls making me dress in girl’s clothes, and dreams of magically transforming into a girl. From a young age, I was fascinated by all things feminine: the clothing, the mannerisms. I stole whatever scraps of women’s clothing I could find.
These fantasies and predilections were often flavored in terms of the erotic. I was a young boy with a healthy imagination and was beginning to explore what it meant to inhabit my body, including living with testosterone flowing through my veins. Some might take this to mean that my trans identity is nothing but a fetish. But that would misread the nature of the phenomenon and oversimplify the complexity of the my story.
What if I had been aware of trans people at a young age? What if my next-door neighbor had been a trans woman? What if I had read books about trans people? What if my…
