Why do I write transgender fiction?

It's a good question. I am just not totally sure I have an answer.

Over 15 years ago I discovered the websites these types of stories are archived at. In 2000, I submitted my first two stories. For the ten years following that, I submitted at least one new story or story chapter.

When I started out I had a story. It's plot revolved around someone getting a gender change. Note- I only write Sci-Fi and Magic stories not ones involving cross-dressing. My serious stories, I've written a few tales that are attempts at humor, aren't about the gender change itself, but what the character does afterwards.  A person's world has been changed into something they have no experience with. How do they cope?

I'm not transgendered but I have to admit that television shows or movies that involved a sex change always interested me going back to Star Trek's 'Turnabout Intruder' and the episode of the Munsters where Eddie gets turned into a girl. Sci-Fi and magic theme plots weren't a requirement for the gender change to garner my interest. I watched the 'Medical Center' episode when it first aired that was about a surgeon (played by Robert Reed of The Brady Bunch) who was going to have gender reassignment surgery.

The interest in transgender fiction has been in me a long time. I think the reason I write TG fiction is because its a way of putting characters into a situation where they have to explore a new world. Being a woman rather than a man for the first time in a person's life  I think is such a situation.

Could I write different types of fiction? Perhaps, but at this time I haven't got any non TG fiction plots floating around in my head.  When I was in my early twenties, I tried putting a murder mystery to words but it never got past page two. I wrote a poem in the 8th grade that garnered me an A and was put up for other students to see. Maybe I'll write a mystery someday but the chances for poetry coming out of me is less likely than an August snowfall in South Florida.