Quote from: Tori on March 26, 2014, 04:09:42 PM
Other women can be amazingly helpful. I totally agree!!!
Where many cis men think transition from M to F is an assault on their masculinity, many cis women see it as a compliment. Barriers are torn down. It is rather awesome.
Hmm...I don't know. IME, throughout my entire life, I've always had a number of female friends. There's prolly never been a time that I didn't have at least one close female friend--except for now. OTOH, it's been hard to make male friends, since most times even if I befriend a dude, eventually his friends will get him to stop hanging out with "the queer," gender-non-conforming kid. Plus, I'm pretty emotional which doesn't help. Though I'm less emo since starting HRT. But, now, it's the other way around. It's easy to make male friends or lovers. But, most women get all catty with me and, frankly, it sucks. But, I am supposed to see my BFF from college soon and she's awesome. So, that's good.
I agree with the main premise. Hanging around with women will help you learn and adapt to a new female life. I just feel like I've been thrown into the deep end with no swimmies. I used to not pass if I had a prolonged conversation with someone because of beard shadow but now that doesn't raise any trans red flags. They prolly just think i have PCOS or sumthing. I know I was hanging with this girl and my best friend and she never said a word about me being trans. She really wanted to be friends too. She kinda crazy though and got caught stealing pork chops (only in Philly!). Though she did think I was a dyke, apparently.
