Do you ever wonder what its like to be acisgender woman?

[AbraCadabra]

I have no idea what is it like to be a woman.

As I don't technically have GID. But doesn't make me any less valid here.

Bingo, we ALL actually ONLY know how it is to be ourselves (cis OR trans) - if we relatively sane, that is.

I have technically no GID, AND only know how it is to be ME.

Easy peacy,
Axelle
PS: actually the biggest bitch is to 'shed' those facial hair and THAT I do share with plenty cis-females too, he he

[stldrmgrl]

Do you ever wonder what its like to be a cisgender woman?

Yes.

[Mahsa Tezani]

Bingo, we ALL actually ONLY know how it is to be ourselves (cis OR trans) - if we relatively sane, that is.

I have technically no GID, AND only know how it is to be ME.

Easy peacy,
Axelle
PS: actually the biggest bitch is to 'shed' those facial hair and THAT I do share with plenty cis-females too, he he

You shed the facial hair, still gotta get ffs...etc. Being a woman isn't as simple as removing facial hair and tucking it in. It's a million billion little things.

[AbraCadabra]

When my breasts itch and my vj burns I do get a pretty good idea at times - I mean how different would be that?

As far as family stuff and sundry male stuff goes --- how much of THAT did we actually do?

Girls do: windsurfing, motorbiking, woodwork, home improvements, are bad a maths, are good kissers (hopefully, some are REALLY bad!), have no babies, never been pregnant, etc.
All my very own experiences.
The only thing I can't claim is having had abortions... now who needs that to feel like a cis-female?!
I had heart-aches and heart-breaks, cried like a baby, did ballet dance, aerobics, looked after my son like mother from age 8, and was a chauvinist just like plenty of cis-females are.

No 'shell' here just some thin polythen wrapper :-)

As always exceptions confirm the rule - most old transitioner are NOT very close to the cis-female 'standard'.
And then with my trans-insight some age 24 tg are neither - or at any rate less then I feel.

Axelle
PS: FFS? look at some older females - a LOT need FFS!
They just have to go with what is - and so do I (for the moment :-)

[JungianZoe]

I mean having a family, having children, living the role of a straight man takes its toll. It's the hardest shell to shed when becoming a woman.

It's nothing to do with age or past life experience: if one is born a woman, they're always a woman, even beneath a shell.  A woman can never fully become man and vice versa, any more than the ocean is comprised of particles of strawberry.  Ever hear the saying, "two can keep a secret if one of them is dead?"  Well, the truth ALWAYS comes out, and the time of life when that truth reveals itself plays no part in how much one "knows" how to be a woman.  They've been a woman all their life.

In my own personal experience, I never played the part of a guy.  I simply lived 25% of my life while stuffing the remaining 75% down so far that I didn't have to attend to it.  When the day came that I could no longer live a partial life, I decided it was time to live the rest of it.  Transition was one of the easiest things I've ever done.  Hell, my thesis consumed more mental energy than I've spent on transition.  And I know people two decades older than me to whom transition felt much the same.

[AbraCadabra]

Well put Zoë :-)

I transitions at 64 - it was easy, but for having to proof what you explained to a gatekeeper shrink.
THAT - was very hard at times. The guy was/is bold-straight-male-gay and had no fem empathy at all. A very disturbing experience and best forgotten for me.

So yes, what it is to feel like SOME cis-female, is like I feel, and always did. No mystery there.
Axelle