The Transitioning of Lester Cook Part II

We hear about “transitioning” these days and immediately think about the physical aspect. Lester Cook went through that — since this incident — completely. But his job wasn’t finished. Now it’s time for the mind to transition.

In a follow-up to the article about the incident on the train, Lester has had several years to consider his life then; his life now; and his mindset then and now.

We get prejudicial when considering the trans-community. Some of us are open-minded and supportive and some consider it unnatural. But when you dig deeper into the concept of transitioning — not just the physical act — you see that it is an entire -not change- but replacement or even “fixing.” “I looked in the mirror and never saw me,” Lester once remarked. Now, he sees himself staring back.

What if we all could do that? not transition our bodies per se but our minds, our souls, our outlook on life. What if there could be a method — a procedure — where we take what is making us not us and cleanse it from us. Religion insinuates that baptism does a version of that. Every faith has a cleansing ritual of fasting and depravation to further that. but what if we could actually remove what is making us not us? Wouldn’t that be amazing.

Lester found it. He went through literal hell to get there but he’s there.

Upon reading the article on the incident, Lester made his final transition… an apology to the unknown assailant he encountered on the train.