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I am Michele Angelique, Creator and Facilitator of GenderEvolve (www.genderevolve.com). We are a group of women from all walks of life, working to bring positive change to the way transfeminism is viewed by society. I was born female, blessed to be correctly gendered, and I love femininity. I want to support and uplift all people who celebrate womanhood, no matter what their physical gender.

The Gift of Yin, feminine spirit, is a nurturing, gentle, empathetic state of grace which exists within all human beings, no matter what their biologic gender. Transgender women are emerging from hiding, now building the bridge between women and men, and their acceptance in society is key to breaking out of the archaic gender prison that has held us all hostage since the stone ages.

In this New Age of ascension and progressive thinking, it must be recognized that all people are unique individuals. Everyone should be allowed to express themself in whatever way feels right to them, without being judged if their biologic gender does not match their chosen gender. The time has come to break out of the old gender box once and for all, to allow others the right to just BE who they are.

One of the things mainstream society needs to understand is that transwomen operate on the basis of a deep seated love of femininity. Transgender women dress as a way to outwardly manifest their inner woman. They relate so closely to women because they are women on the inside. Transwomen study genetic women because they want to be like us. They admire and respect us, holding us in higher esteem than ordinary men ever would, and perhaps higher than we have of ourselves.

The world still deems femininity to be weaker and lesser, and even women don't want to be women anymore. "Feminist" women who abdicate their own femininity and strive to emulate men support the notion that masculinity is superior to femininity. Femininity is cast aside by men and women alike, and yet transwomen are celebrating it. The risks they face in aspiring to be like women include ridicule, isolation, discrimination, persecution, violence or even death.

Transgender women defy society's premise that men are superior to women, because if it were true, people like them would not exist. They are living proof that femininity has at least as much value as masculinity. They are evidence that strong can still be beautiful. They are people with the birthright of masculinity, yet they choose to manifest femininity.

To me this shows the ULTIMATE regard for women. Transgender women love genetic women more that we love ourselves, and far more than ordinary men do. I find this very touching, and I know all women will when they come to understand that the motivations are such a miraculous and beautiful thing.

These are only a few of the reasons I admire and respect transwomen. I view them as a special type of human whose time has finally come. I will do anything in my power to support them.

Gender identity resides in the heart, mind and spirit, not the body.

I am only coming to realize the pain and guilt that so many endure for a simple pleasure like crossdressing. I am confounded by it, actually... how could something so harmless and healthy as a man wanting to express femininity be deemed so wrong by society?

Women earned the right to crossdress with "women's liberation", and no one thinks anything of it anymore. A powersuit on a woman is considered sexy by many... when I'm feeling my Yang, I can dress and act as masculine as I want, and it's ok... why is a skirt on a man who's feeling his Yin considered so abnormal? I really don't get it.

"Men's liberation" still has not happened. Society still binds men tightly to rigid one-sided standards. All men feel Yin to some degree, yet are brainwashed into believing it must be surpressed and denied. This very fact is a discredit to the feminine gender. Women should recognize that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. For a man to want to be feminine means he places value on the Yin energy, which is as it should be. To surpress and deny Yin is to say it is of lower value than Yang. The emergence of the openly yin spirited man is what is needed to balance this society and humanity in general.

The irony is, it is men who are enslaving themselves to the rigid social archetype. Ordinary men are threatened by the presence of Yin-Spirited men because they are reminded of their own inner torment and battle to enslave the Yin, such that many will respond vehemently if not violently. It is men who are keeping themselves confined to the little black box, and persecuting those who dare peek out and openly celebrate Yin.

Perhaps it is the women who must reach out, help the men out of the little black box, and join them in the celebration of all that is beautiful, kind, nurturing, loving, feminine... by genetic women condemning trans women, they are assisting in the enslavement of Yin, and admitting that Yin is inferior. Instead we should be praising her emergence in the male population... it's about time! The world could use a little more nurturing and love, and a little less war and greed.