One question I really like is the idea of alternatives, so I'll just explain mine:
If someone passed a law saying that for the rest of my life, I have to work a local 9-to-5 job, get married, have children, and buy a house and a car, my automatic response would be that I 100% want to be a woman, absolutely no doubt about it. However, because I have much different dreams that have grown with time, I have a less-evasive alternative that would work for me; because of my specific career choices, I am currently satisfied with wanting to achieve an Androgynous facial appearance only, or, to better explain, an appearance that both matches with my personality and aesthetic standards, as well as enabling me to facially and emotionally pass as being a girl - to the extent that matters in my current life choice. One other alternative, is as per to a potentially religious belief, I would also accept wearing an decorative identity mask (example; a tribal mask that has female qualities) in conjunction to decorative clothing items. Basically, think of what a tribal African/Native American transsexual would have to do to get the identity presentation across, no matter how extreme or strange it may be. Think of what a tribal person would naturally do in a land where surgery and hormones don't exist (and quite frankly, I live in a region in the US that lives in 1943, soooo...)
Now, those three paths exist with me for many personal reasons that can't be changed. I would want to be a full woman if I was forced to have a strictly normal, local-lifestyle. I would settle for being Androgynous in the face as the only change, if my current "dream career" goals come true, to "equal out the emotions", so to speak. And then I have a religious practice and identity that I may start doing if I can't afford either full transitioning or treatments to at least achieve at least an Androgynous image. My foremost deal is passing to the public and passing in my friendship/dating life; when I achieve that, I believe that will make me happy for a very long time. I'm much less focused on genitals and body-traits because I personally believe that if I have an attractive female "face", that a partner or friend can emotionally or even physically "ignore/enjoy" my "male" body parts (I've actually seen proof of this millions of times in the real world), and that's why currently, I want to tackle the face first. I don't like my male parts any more than I like my face, but I believe to my specific lifestyle and career, my face matters more than my parts, literally. I view the parts as my "want", and the face as my "need". Like I said, I consider my face a "need" to the point I'd rather wear a tribal female mask than to show my current Acromegaloid male face to the world, but when it comes to genitals, my personal opinion about my own is that 'I wear pants in public, who's gonna know what I am down there initially?'
So how about you guys, have ya'll thought of any separate alternatives that you may take depending on how your life falls through?
