But apparantly these sentiments are not shared by those in new 'transgender' community, a place where being transsexual is viewed as outdated as being a feminist. I'm now considered 'a damned assimillationist'.

You see, transsexualism is a medical condition, while transgender is a behavior. If you didn't know that you're not alone, the one-big-tent community of today has seen to that.

My efforts to promote positive imagery for transsexuals have been twisted to appear as an attack on the transgender community. Nothing could be further from the truth.

I've tried to be the kind of person I wish I'd known during my transition. Someone to whom I could point my family to and say 'see! she's just a normal woman'.

But, I'm tired of the in-fighting. It's time for me to go back to living my life, the life I fought so hard to achieve.

To my young sisters, I'm neither running from, nor denying, nor talking endlessly about my past - and a past is something we all have, regardless of whether you're transsexual or not.

Don't limit your dreams because of a birth defect!