This quote from another article on Joy Ladin titled "Breaking the Gender Covenant" really struck me:
http://www.onbeing.org/blog/breaking...-covenant/5711
"My transition has not only been from an inauthentic life as a man to an authentic life as a woman. It has also been from a gender covenant based upon physical sex and social convention to a new gender covenant in which gender doesn’t mean being male or female, but being true to others by becoming our truest selves."
This sums up pretty well how I'm feeling about my own transition and my motivations. I'm really tired of living "a lie" and not being my authentic self especially around the people that mean the most to me.