Do you miss having topfreedom?

[Jess42]

Never did. It always felt somewhat wrong.

That pretty much explains me. Even as a kid I never went around without a shirt. It just didn't feel right to me. And then when I hit puberty and slight gynecomastia I really couldn't shirtless.

But yeah without a shirt just never seemed right. In private no problem being topless but never in public. Even in Gym Classes in school and shirts and skins games I made sure I was never skins. If so, I would have some severe case of something to have to go to the bathroom.

This is kind of interesting thread though and good to know that I ain't alone in it not feeling right.

[JulieBlair]

I'm pretty open and a bit of a nudist, but that said I've only had recognizable breasts for a bit more than two years, and wearing a halter top or bikini top is still fun.  That and I'm old enough to me most peoples grandmother, so the rules for me are pretty lax.  For swimming I will wear a bikini bottom with a little tape for a gaff and then boy shorts, and on top whatever I want.  I like thin cover ups and saris.  I like to expose my legs and a little flat belly.  Careful I'll break into song. "I enjoy being a girl"  The nice thing about being trans and being old is I have the cutest breasts on the beach, the other old women are nothing but jealous. 

Julie

[noleen111]

no i don't miss it at all. i enjoy the fact i have to wear a bra, i love wearing them... I have a pair of 36D breasts, so the support is welcome.

I can admit, i am not shy to walk topless.. in my yard, i often sunbathe topless, only wearing a g-string. I do go to beaches were they allow topless sunbathing.. where i will even walk around topless, even go for swim while topless.... so maybe i still get my shirtless experience as a woman

[Delsorou]

I always hated being topless... I think I managed to almost completely avoid doing so in my life, mostly by not ever learning to swim.

I wouldn't mind doing it now though at the appropriate beach, if only I had anything worth showing off...

[TSJasmine]

I never really liked being topless xD I hated my body & I always wanted to cover it up. I was a chubby child though so that's why probably. I had started losing weight after my RLE so being completely topless happened rarely.

[Ms Grace]

I never went around in public shirtless anyway, so nope.

[stephaniec]

no

[Ms Grace]

Which isn't to say I won't exercise some top freedom now!

[Christine Eryn]

A few times I have played basketball "shirts vs skins" when I was still in denial, pre HRT of course. Still akward because I have always shaved my armpits and chest since I've had to.

[Beth Andrea]

Do I miss having topfreedom?

Never really liked going topless. Unless I was swimming, I always had on at least a T-shirt. (I felt awkward when my chest was undressed, but didn't know why at the time).

Now I rock a swimsuit top in the summer or when swimming! I love it!!

[MyKa]

For me growing up a chubby kid never experienced the freedom of going shirtless. Hell when I swam in a pool or at the river on the farm had a shirt on. Great farmers tan. Now that I'm in shape I try to wear as less as possible. I call them my tit and tattoo tops

[kaye]

Kind of. Wearing a bra sucked yesterday in almost 40 degree heat.

[Beth Andrea]

Kind of. Wearing a bra sucked yesterday in almost 40 degree heat.

Tell me about it! It was 40^ here too, but we had to wear heavy coats!

Oh wait...are you talking Celsius? 

[kaye]

Tell me about it! It was 40^ here too, but we had to wear heavy coats!

Oh wait...are you talking Celsius? 

Yup because celsius is the global temperature standard

[Vestyn]

Reading all of these responses has been really interesting and enlightening, thank you for your many thoughts and comments.

It seems like most women here were never comfortable going topless in the first place - why do you think that is? (Besides the weight concerns, etc.) Why is being topless such a "man's thing?" To me it always seemed like an *efficient* and *practical* thing. How nice to not have to deal with the extra accoutrement! Especially now, I've been living a few degrees north of the equator for 3 years in an apartment without air conditioning, so it's been like clockwork: come home, fan on, shirt and bra off. Relax. (And then: Is that a knock at the door? SCRAMBLE AROUND; OMG, WHERE'S MY SHIRT??) 

Once I had a couple of male couchsurfers staying in my apartment. I'll never forget the resentment I felt when, with the three of us relaxing at home, I was uncharacteristically but necessarily wearing a shirt and bra and sweating bullets while they - guests in my home! - were lying around comfortably shirtless, completely oblivious to my envy.

I just got so fed up with the double-standard. I don't understand why more women don't feel this way. 

[Hikari]

I never went shirtless in public and it always kinda bothered me that anyone did so no I don't miss it.

[Beth Andrea]

My conscious mind reasoned "having a shirt protects against UV rays", while my emotional mind was embarrassed to expose my nips...which at the time I thought was an irrational anxiety, but I just piled it on top of all the other irrational anxieties I had.

[Jess42]

Reading all of these responses has been really interesting and enlightening, thank you for your many thoughts and comments.

It seems like most women here were never comfortable going topless in the first place - why do you think that is? (Besides the weight concerns, etc.) Why is being topless such a "man's thing?" To me it always seemed like an *efficient* and *practical* thing. How nice to not have to deal with the extra accoutrement! Especially now, I've been living a few degrees north of the equator for 3 years in an apartment without air conditioning, so it's been like clockwork: come home, fan on, shirt and bra off. Relax. (And then: Is that a knock at the door? SCRAMBLE AROUND; OMG, WHERE'S MY SHIRT??) 

Once I had a couple of male couchsurfers staying in my apartment. I'll never forget the resentment I felt when, with the three of us relaxing at home, I was uncharacteristically but necessarily wearing a shirt and bra and sweating bullets while they - guests in my home! - were lying around comfortably shirtless, completely oblivious to my envy.

I just got so fed up with the double-standard. I don't understand why more women don't feel this way. 

Because it may be way deeper than what anyone can imagine or guess. Even the most educated and intellecutaul among us. It really nakes no sense. I, even as a small child, never felt comfortable without a shirt.

Personally I think it is way deeper in our Psychies than even psychologists and psychiatrists can even begin to imagine. I donlt mind the nudist thing like Julie mentioned, trans or not.

[Jess42]

I never went shirtless in public and it always kinda bothered me that anyone did so no I don't miss it.

I never could but a guy with some hellacious pecs though. Where is the line. Not to mention if he can flex them. OK I am going to shut up now.

[katiej]

In high school I had a friend who was shirtless every possible minute he could get away with it.  I never understood it.

Yup because celsius is the global temperature standard

What is this "global" thing you speak of?  In America we use the real degrees...Fahrenheit.