This site is a collection of thoughts and ideas that have arisen in my mind over the course of the years since I realized that I needed to transition the people in my life to understand who I am through the lens of my gender as much as through any other lens. But the title, Satya's Mind, is not about the thoughts in my mind, but is about the core reality that our minds, rather than our bodies, define who we really are.
Throughout the course of transitioning the people in my life to be able to experience me as a person in my true gender, my own perspectives about gender and its place in defining each of us—within ourselves and with our relationship to other people—evolved considerably. So, the writings I have in here reflect that evolution, and at times seem to be contradictory. I think that is just a natural part of transitioning.
The core epiphany I had in this transition is that gender and sex are two distinct and separate things that are intricately intertwined, while at the same time independent. Therefore, the underlying assumption I carry in most of my writing here is that your sex, or your reproductive sex, is a distinct condition of your body that serves one singular purpose: reproduction. Your gender is a distinct condition of your mind that deeply defines your personality, your behavior, and the way you relate to other people throughout your life. Your gender lies at the very core of who you are, while your body is the outer skin. I still believe that gender and sex are closely related, but I also understand that it is your gender that needs an appropriate sex, not the other way around. Due to the vast diversity that is a part of biology and evolution, many people just don't have that, and search for ways to bring it into their lives.
Because of the immense pressures everyone is put under to conform to the expectations of others in a highly social world, the way we each view the issue before going through the transition is often very different than how we see it afterward and beyond. I personally have been amazed at how much my own thinking about my gender and gender in general changed. It was a profound awakening for me.
I hope you can enjoy reading the essays I have published here, and that they can help bring some clarity to a very complex issue with many conflicting interpretations.
Throughout the course of transitioning the people in my life to be able to experience me as a person in my true gender, my own perspectives about gender and its place in defining each of us—within ourselves and with our relationship to other people—evolved considerably. So, the writings I have in here reflect that evolution, and at times seem to be contradictory. I think that is just a natural part of transitioning.
The core epiphany I had in this transition is that gender and sex are two distinct and separate things that are intricately intertwined, while at the same time independent. Therefore, the underlying assumption I carry in most of my writing here is that your sex, or your reproductive sex, is a distinct condition of your body that serves one singular purpose: reproduction. Your gender is a distinct condition of your mind that deeply defines your personality, your behavior, and the way you relate to other people throughout your life. Your gender lies at the very core of who you are, while your body is the outer skin. I still believe that gender and sex are closely related, but I also understand that it is your gender that needs an appropriate sex, not the other way around. Due to the vast diversity that is a part of biology and evolution, many people just don't have that, and search for ways to bring it into their lives.
Because of the immense pressures everyone is put under to conform to the expectations of others in a highly social world, the way we each view the issue before going through the transition is often very different than how we see it afterward and beyond. I personally have been amazed at how much my own thinking about my gender and gender in general changed. It was a profound awakening for me.
I hope you can enjoy reading the essays I have published here, and that they can help bring some clarity to a very complex issue with many conflicting interpretations.
