Something I've been thinking about

[WildThing]

Something that's been running through my mind recently that I've noticed about myself is I don't see any of you as "transgender men" or "transgender women." I see you all as just "men and women." I see myself as a cisgender woman in my mind, but I'm...I don't want to say "trapped," because I feel that's an overused word, but that's exactly how it feels, I do feel trapped. I'm not ashamed to call myself "transgender" or a "transgender woman," if anything I feel proud saying it, but in many ways I identify as just a "woman."

Any of you guys ("guys" being a universal term) feel like that?

[Ms Grace]

I know I identify as a woman! 

Albeit I had many years of enforced male socialisation and testosterone poisoning but I've managed to come out the other side of that!! I did feel trapped but I no longer do.

[LordKAT]

I am who I have always been. Sadly, what the rest of the world has seen in the past was wrong. While there are still physical problems to overcome, I have a hard time with being other than just a man.


Labels do have their uses, both good and bad. I think many of us have seen the bad.

[awilliams1701]

I don't feel trapped anymore. I see trans as a gift. I know who and what I am and could give a crap about what others think. Its a very powerful position to be in.

[suzifrommd]

I'm proud to be trans. I consider my transition a major accomplishment, and it's brought me wisdom from seeing both sides of the gendered world that cis people could not hope to have.

I would give just about anything to just be a woman, but it is not to be. I will always have lived my first 50 years as a male, and that gives me a perspective that I can't get rid of and shouldn't try. It's a part of what I am.

However, I demand to be treated and seen as a woman. That has nothing to do with identity and everything to do with simple human respect and decency.

[katrinaw]

I've always identified as female, but had to supress it.

When I do finally fully transition I'll still be a woman, but will proud of where I came from, what I did, the strength and hard decisions I took to get there.

I must admit for the first time in my life I can touch and feel it....

L Katy 

[Marly]

I've never really felt "trapped" Although denial was very strong for a long time. Now I just feel like I'm on the right path and my only real regret is that I waited so long.

[Mariah]

I have always identified female, but htanks to a birth defect was socialized as male. I don't feel trapped by that past and have actually let go of it. I no longer let define who I am.
Mariah