What Happens When You Find The One, Who’s Nothing Like You Expected?

, by By Allison Cooper from “O, The Oprah Magazine”, was featured today on MSN’s homepage. Right on the front in one of the five primary stories scrolling by. 

Here are some of the amazing points she makes:

“How society has made the rules, issued the uniforms, the lists of approved activities, but where it counts, in your heart, in your head, the truth is always far blurrier.”

“Terrified that this man, this gentle, generous, brilliant man, could be in danger simply because of who he is. “This is America,” I think. “The land of reinvention. Why would anyone even care?” 

“There is this misbegotten notion that transmen and women are about playing dress-up and fooling people. But to be trans is to feel the truth so acutely you can’t fake it. It is to be so consumed with the truth of who you are that you are willing to risk everything to inhabit it. To refuse to be what other people have decided you are — this is an act of courage few individuals dare try. I know I didn’t. “