<p>marama:
I think you misunderstood what I meant when I said that I am a trans woman. I’ve been living as female since I was sixteen, and I’m now nearly twenty-four. I’ve never felt male, despite having been assigned male at birth.</p>
<p>Thus, it makes perfect sense why I feel as if I’d fit in well at a women’s college. I’m a computer scientist working as a systems administrator; only 3% of my colleagues are also women, so I’m looking forward to an environment that is less hostile. But the primary reason that Wellesley is of interest to me is the Davis Scholars program, which would provide me with support and peers who are also non-traditional students. I interrupted my education in order to work to support myself, and am seeking to work and simultaneously finish my degree as a part-time student.</p>
<p>TBH, whether I’ve had medical procedures performed is none of your business. If you’d been a little bit nicer about asking, I might even have pointed you at my blog where I discuss some of the physical processes involved in my own gender transition, but I happen to be open about my history. Other trans people you might encounter might not be. And having medical procedures has nothing to do with whether or not someone is “female enough” - many people can’t afford those medical procedures, even if they want them (some people don’t want surgery, for instance), so there are serious issues of class privilege associated with demanding that someone “must have surgery X” to be considered gender Y.</p>
<p>I happen to have passing privilege, but it’s really irrelevant whether I “look indistinguishable” from a cisgender female individual. I lucked out, but it’s unreasonable to demand that people “look right” to your standards in order to be considered “female enough”.</p>