I Am A Woman

An apple is an apple, from the time the flower pollinates and puts out the fruit, to the time it rots, falls off the tree and lays there to become part of the earth again. It is biologically geared to be an apple. Painting it orange and ripping the stem off doesn't magically mean it's an orange now. It still tastes and smells like an apple. If you juice it, it will be apple juice, not orange juice.

Bruce Jenner is a man. "Identifying" with a woman doesn't magically turn you into one. Injecting hormones, cutting your willy off and squeezing yourself into a corset doesn't either. I was biologically geared to be a female. God created me to be a girl, then I grew up, had girly feelings, had babies, and have a mother's instinct. Surgery may change the world's perspective of me from female to male, but I can't change my chromosomes. I can't change the parts I was born with. God had a plan for me when He created me and that involved me being the gender I was born to be. He doesn't make mistakes. He made us intricately; we're still learning about how amazing the human body can be, what does what to it. HE KNEW WHAT HE WAS DOING. Why is it, all of a sudden, that deciding that, clearly, we know better than God when it comes to ourselves, warrants completely changing everything He did, and now we're "brave" for it?

No. I haven't read the article. I do know enough, though to know that Bruce is a very confused man. He still has his male parts. It took a lot of man-made effort to morph him into the "woman" he thinks he is. I'm insulted by it, frankly. I may not be overly excited with how my body looks right now, but I have earned several titles that only women may hold. He can't hold those titles. I am a wife. A mother. A sister. A daughter. A daughter-in-law. I can almost promise you that if I'd once been a man and decided that I wanted to be a woman, and came clean, my kids wouldn't exist because their fathers would have wanted nothing to do with me. They are straight men, and regardless of my eventual decision to be a "woman," I highly doubt either of them would ever have been able to look past the fact that at one point in time, I was a boy.

I am not a male. No amount of surgery to shallowly ease my confused mind could ever make me a male. I still have female parts. Can male parts be conjured? Sure. But they wouldn't work the way a naturally-born male's would, because they're not natural. I will continue to have XX chromosomes. I was born Amy Jo Kachel and no surgery, no amount of money and publicity can change that. I'm not sure why Bruce thinks it can for him, except that society today is so ready to break all rules, boundaries and barriers and justify every little sin it can come up with, that it will support any number of abominations.

Injecting purple dye into my skin doesn't mean I'm a purplasian now. It means I have insecurities about myself.

What makes me sickest of all: ESPN has announced their intention to award "Caitlyn" Jenner the Bravery Award. FOR WHAT?!?! There was no sacrifice here. Too much reward, too little sacrifice. I'm disgusted that America has so warped it's definition of bravery that we now only consider social "trailblazing" as bravery, instead of actual sacrifices. Hey, ESPN. Go see what soldiers have died this year. Are their sacrifices less brave than Bruce? Their lost lives pay for YOUR freedom. "Caitlyn" pays your cell phone bill. Get your priorities straight.

And maybe I'll lose friends over this. Maybe I'll get hate mail, maybe people won't like me anymore. But calling an apple an apple isn't hate speech, it's not bullying, it's not close-minded. It's the truth. Sorry if the truth offends you; maybe you need to reanalyze why you find glorified lies more appealing than truth.