Happy2BeInNappies2 said:
In my heart for as long as I can remember I have always been more of a girl (as are my sisters) than a boy. A girl stuck in the body of a boy.
Oh, how I wished that I had been placed in the right body gender.
That is a mood.
I am female. Although I was born with a body, that had male characteristics, and would develop (more or less) typically male with puberty.
It was hell. But I've transitioned, and now live my life as the woman I am. My body has been becoming more and more feminine over the last two years, and I've been at a point the last year or so where I'm consistently gendered female.
Angelapinks said:
I was born female but nobody would believe me so I had to Man Up.
I consider myself born as a girl, only with a slight birth defect, that comes from that pesky Y chromosome.
I tried manning up for a quarter century. It never really worked, and I was miserable.
So instead I took my hormones on manual. Had my marbles removed, and grew some boobs.
ShyBoo81 said:
Im too tall to pass for a girl, and no way Im dressing up in public!
But tall girls are HOT!
Dabsanddiapers said:
Its easier being male i guess is what im saying.
Well, it is easier in many ways, but when you where meant to be a woman, trying to be a man is actually a lot harder.
I find being a woman a lot easier, it just comes naturally to me, where pretending to be male never did.
Milianna said:
However, I wouldn't actually say it's all sunshine and rainbows being female either. Just like how I have sometimes wished that I could be a man. Sure, there's some privileges that come with being male, but I don't think I could carry the burden of what society expects me to be as a man if I ever was to transition to be one.
I fully agree that it isn't all sunshine and rainbows.
However, having tried being a man, it's the last thing I wish to go back to. However, some of the privilege that came with it was nice.
People assumed competence, now I have to prove it, before men believe.
People used to take me serious, now I make suggestions, and they are ignored, only for a man to make the same suggestion a few minutes later, and if I don't say something, he'll get all the credit.
Milianna said:
Gender comes with a lot more than just what's in between one's legs. It's a lot of carrying what society expects and thinks of you. For better or for worse.
Oh, definitely. What's between your legs doesn't define what gender you are at all.
I've not had any gender confirmation surgery, other than having my marbles removed. I'm still a woman.
I've always been a woman, only I lived the social role of a man.
Meeting those expectations, that didn't even remotely come natural to me, was horrible.
Milianna said:
But to all of you on your transition journeys or just in your quest to explore and express yourselves, just know that this lady hopes you all can feel comfortable in your skin no matter what
Thank you.
I'm very close to being fully comfortable, but I've also been transitioning for two years.
There are just two more things to do, get rid of the remaining facial hair, and getting my privates reconfigured to actually match what my brain expects there to be.
Ellie said:
Definitely true....but another large part of it is probably hormones; I've been pretty good at hiding my emotions my whole life, but after 9 months on HRT, I probably cry
at least every other day now lmao. Sometimes over some really small, stupid things. ...Like being told "NOPE, you can't buy cigarettes without your ID!" by the cashier after walking 1.1 miles to the Town Pump at 3 in the morning and not bringing my ID because I've never needed it at the Town Pump at that time of night before because everybody there knows me and knows I'm almost 27 and never asks for my ID but I keep looking more and more different and when they hire somebody new, I just look like a
teenager to them now.......And then I start
crying when they
tell me "No." lol.
That's mostly puberty. Two years in, I still have the capacity for emotions that I gained from HRT, but they are not on a hairline trigger anymore.
MandyBear said:
We also get to be treated like children, ignored, talked over, dismissed, gentle lil creatures that need protecting and well you get the point.
Yes, that part can be so annoying. But with most people, it helps to call that shit out. Tell them that they cannot treat you that way.
This , lol.
