Real (not legally) name: Daphne Alice (birth last name). Although I have always related to the name Phoebe. Also Penelope.
Age: 33
MTF
I just want to say hi. I am really interested in hearing other trans-women's stories. I feel so many of them resemble me and my life. I'm about to watch The Danish Girl with my awesome wife. I'm very lucky in a lot of ways, despite being a woman in man's body, not least because my wife of 8 years told me she is basically a lesbian and that my femininity is what she likes about me when I finally officially told her I am a
female.To some degree I told myself at the same time. I've always just seen myself as a very feminine man who sees his body as a a woman's body with a penis, and loved to be shaved and dainty. Kind of like a gay man who likes women. I don't come from enlightened or even all that tolerant people, so a lot of this was new to me as I became a young adult. Still is really.
I don't want to drag on and on, but am happy to talk to others like me about anything. I have a varied past of interest and careers and education. My wife and I are both engineers. Not a very feminine field per se, but who cares. We're kick-ass chicks who are obsessed with each-other even after 10 years together. We are child-free by choice, and love to play guitar (I'm a professional musician). We have regular cheese parties with wine which is both of us in bed, buzzed on wine, eating cheese. Not unlike tonight!
Anyway, I ramble. Thank you for having a place like this. Information I have found here has been invaluable. I'm sure I'll start posting here and there now that I have announced my presence.
<3 ~Daphne
