Transgender (Ask Teal Episode on Transgender and Transsexuality) - Teal Swan

Transgender

Hello, everyone.

Given that last week's topics

were about embracing the gender
that you chose upon coming into this life,

I thought it only fitting to do this video

on transgender and transsexual individuals.

In the previous episodes
I stressed how important it is

to embrace the gender
that you chose for yourself

upon coming into this life.

The reason that I did that is because

humanity, if you were to take a snapshot
of the way that humanity feels

relative to gender,

we are in resistance to gender

and whatever you resist, persists.

If you look at the life paths
of the human race

what we are a match to in the future

is becoming androgynous beings.

Because we contain both

divine feminine and divine masculine
aspects within ourselves,

and where we are headed is towards unity

instead of the duality
which currently exists,

then you would understand

that the human race

is going to eventually be
a race with no gender.

But if we are in resistance to gender,

we are going to stay a match to gender,

including gender issues.

And so...

I have explained in the past

that when you're moving
from where you currently are

to a place of forgiveness sake,

you can't jump that gap.

It's like expecting yourself
to jump the Grand Canyon.

And so when you look at the human race

we are expecting ourselves
to jump the Grand Canyon

when we move from where we are

to embracing and androgyny.

What we need to do
is release resistance to our gender first.

So that looks like releasing resistance
to my feminine nature if I'm a female,

and in learning to embrace it.

Or if you're a male,

that looks like releasing resistance
of being a male and embracing it.

This is the first step
which humanity needs to take

which we need to take as individuals

when we're headed in the direction

of discovering the energetic
nature of ourselves,

which is void of gender.

When it looks like I am becoming
the embodiment of my eternal higher self,

understanding that higher self
is void of gender.

It is both unified aspects
of male and female.

The next step after embracing the gender

that we choose physically for this life,

is to search for both aspects
within yourself.

Why? Because we try to get back
to the truth of who we are.

This is what we are all doing here,
seeking enlightenment.

The truth of who we are is energy.

Energy is void of gender.

It has no duality,
and so it is androgynous.

Thus, androgynous people
have a unique advantage.

They are actually closer

to being the physical expression
of the higher self.

With people who are
transgender or transsexual

it's a little different.

It's that when they come into
the physical experience

of the gender that they originally chose,

they don't actually feel
that they fit with it.

So if you came in a male,

you may identify yourself as female

and be very frustrated for years
because you are stuck in a male body

Or maybe you came in female,

and you don't identify with being female,

you feel as if you're really male.

So you're sort of trapped
as an alien in your own skin.

If you come into a body
that you do not identify with,

that creates a certain amount of resistance

in and of itself.

Which is why the first step
for transgender and transsexual people

is to release resistance
to the very gender that you were born.

Resistance to your gender
keep you stuck in that gender.

So, releasing resistance to it,

which means finding ways
to positively focus towards it

will actually enable you to let go of it.

And then you can allow yourself
to choose a lifestyle

and even a body
that you feel reflects the real you.

Focusing towards your gender,
the one you don't want to be,

in a positive way,
is not the same thing

as trying to force yourself
to be that thing.

So many transgender people

spend years trying to force themselves

to be something other than what they are.

And it drives many of them to suicide.

So for the transgender individual,

their task is to release resistance
to the current gender they are,

and then to allow themselves

to flow in the direction of whatever
they feel that they really want to be.

Which is who you really are.

While it is true that many
transgender individuals

do not want to go through
with a full sex change,

I think it's really important to talk about

the concept of a sex change.

Because it is a very big topic
within the transgender community

and many transgender people
choose to go through sex change.

If you pay attention to the way you feel

about the sex that you
no longer want to be,

you will be able to tell whether
you're wanting this sex change

because you're resisting something
that you don't want to be,

or because you're wanting to change

because you're allowing yourself
to be who you want to be,

which is who you really are.

If you're doing this,

if you're wanting this sex change
because of resistance,

i.e. negative emotion towards
the sex you currently are,

it's important to first release resistance
to the gender you currently are

and then revisit the idea
of changing your sex

once that resistance is released.

You may find you don't want a sex change.

But in fact, it is much more likely
that you will still want a sex change.

But this time,

you will be completely
in alignment with it,

and you'll be doing it
for all the right reasons.

So for example,

if you are born a male,

and you identify yourself as female,

this doesn't mean that you have to
stop wearing female clothes,

you have to stop doing whatever you do

to enable yourself to project
the outward image of being feminine,

it just means that you have to sit down
and be very honest with yourself

in terms of your thoughts

and start doing some real shadow work,

finding those core beliefs

and transmuting healing those core beliefs

relative to being male.

So you don't have to walk around like
a macho man, just to embrace maleness,

if you came in male,
and identify as female.

You just have to look at your thoughts

and release resistance to those thoughts.

You can still let yourself
dress like a woman

and continue going through the steps
of becoming a woman,

if that's what you wish.

I just want to stress how important it is

for individuals that have
any kind of identity issue,

because that's what it really is.

While transgender is not a disorder,

it is still an issue

because of the culture that we live in.

And so, anytime you have an issue,
any resistance, negative emotion

it's really important
to look at those negative emotions

and work through them
and heal them.

So now I'm going to tell you
the real reason

that people are Transgender;

And it has to do
with a pre birth intention.

The pre birth intention
for people who come down

transgender or transsexual

is the search for identity.

Which can be rewritten to mean this:

"If I am transgender
or if I am transsexual

my intention for this life

is authenticity."

You can't find authenticity

until you experience
what is not authentic.

In order to find who you really are,

which is what we're really talking about
when we're talking about authenticity,

you have to experience what it is

to live a life

where you are lying to yourself
about who you are.

Now, this requires identity crisis.

So, an identity crisis

can be caused by either coming down
and feeling void of identity,

or coming down and feeling
as if you are stuck in the wrong identity.

This is the real reason

that people choose to become transgender

upon choosing the body
they come into and incarnate in,

upon choosing the lifestyle they choose
to come into when they incarnate.

So, think about the intense contrast,
and thus expansion

that is caused by choosing
to come down transgender.

Gender is the first form of identity
second to choosing to come in as human.

Talk about an identity crisis.

This identity crisis

causes transgender people to go through
a period of identity development.

Spiritually, they intended before birth
to come down into contrast

that would cause them to ask
some of the very biggest questions

relative to authenticity.

The first being,

the need to understand one's self-image.

The second being,

the need for self-reflection
and self-discovery.

And the third being,

the need for self-expression.

Once a transgender individual

feels genuine, authentic and comfortable
within themselves

and their external appearance,

and once they accept
their genuine identity,

they have found what is called
"Transgender Congruence".

This transgender congruence
is a lesson for the rest of the world.

That you can only ever be happy
if you do what is in your heart.

You can only ever be happy,

if you are living a life that is
authentic to who you really are.

And our external bodies do not
always reflect who we really are.

And so, it is more than okay

for someone who is male,
but feels as if their true self is female,

to get a sex change and switch,

from male to female or vice versa.

We did not come here to allow ourselves
to be defined by anyone else.

Free will is an absolute of your existence.

You chose to come into this life

as a male or female

and so you can un-choose it if you'd like.

You want to make sure that
any decision you make in life,

including changing gender,

is coming from a positive emotional space

instead of a negative emotional space.

You want to make sure you're doing it

because changing your gender
means going in the direction of happiness,

not running away from something.

If it is coming from
a positive place within you,

go ahead and change the gender
that you came in as.

No one gave you this body,

you chose it before coming in.

We like to tell the story
relative to transgender individuals

which is that you're rejecting
the truth of who you are

if you want to change your sex.

And while on rare occasions
this can be true,

it is usually not true.

Usually becoming transgender

has nothing to do with rejecting
the truth of who you are.

It has to do with embracing
the truth of who you are.

Being transgender has to do with
learning the lesson of authenticity

and being brave enough
to teach that lesson to the world

by virtue of your example.

You helped us not get stuck in gender.

You teach the rest of us

that we do not have to be
defined by anything

other than who we feel we are
in our hearts.

That is a lesson we all need
desperately.

It is not just you who has lived a lie,

most people live lies.

We suffer because we live lies

and do not let the real us
out of the closet.

So teach us.

Teach us by the clarity of your example

what it means to be authentic to ourselves.

There is nothing that
has gone wrong with you.

This is why I feel
as if it is not beneficial

for me to go into the lifestyle conditions,

biochemical conditions,

or anatomical conditions

that have been linked
to the cause of transgender.

Those things are nothing
but a byproduct

of a pre birth intention for you
to come down to this body,

to go through an identity crisis,

so you could find out who
your true authentic self really is.

In other words,

if you are transgender or transsexual

nothing about you needs to be fixed.

You are not mentally ill.

There is nothing wrong with you.

And the sooner you realize that,
the happier you'll be.

And you don't actually want friends
or family that can't understand that.

And I promise you

there are enough of us in the world
who do understand that,

who will embrace you completely
for who you really are.

Who recognize you as the teachers

who teach us how to be us.

So thank you...

and have a good week.

Subtitles by: Tanya Duarte