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location:  Body Art  >  Tattoo  >  Backpiece I have long wanted a backpiece that was a tribal-type representation of the three gender symbols to connect my past, present, and future. I tried for a couple years to draw something meaningful that incorporated everything I was thinking in my head, but nothing ever came to me. Then, like all good tattoos, one day it did. I got this tattoo, my fourth, in February 2005. I never thought I would get a word tattooed on me, and now I have three, each completing their respective circle. I wanted to pick words that I associate with the three aspects of sexed and gendered self: my past as a female-born person, my transition from female to male, and my present/future as a male. I choose patience because that is the one inborn aspect of myself I associate with being female, and it is a traditionally-female characteristic. I choose strength for the male symbol to represent the physical and mental strength I have gained. Finally, I choose freedom to complete the trans symbol because that is exactly what transitioning has been for me...the ultimate of all freedoms. Click on the thumbnails to veiw the larger version in a new window