In high school I would have been highly disturbed by this picture. I would have viewed it as some we

In high school I would have been highly disturbed by this picture. I would have viewed it as some weird sexual fetish at best. Now I simply view this person as transgender and know that being transgender doesn’t require getting genitalia changed. This woman’s choice to keep her penis does not make her any less feminine, and it definitely doesn’t make her a freak. Sometimes there is innocence in youth. Other times it is harmful ignorance that I am just thankful I didn’t actively perpetuate among others.