What type of transgender are you?

[amberwish]

i agree with vanessa.im cd and having the best time of my life. at this time i dont want to change that. but i also dont want to say never in case what im doing progresses even further.  joining susans i have found out more about myself and what i am.  still learning and wanting to learn more. i see myself now as a person who wants to dess up more and more.  next step going out dressed up.
hugs to all

[Melissa]

Yeah, I agree that there is a certain amount of stress involved with just presenting as your true self in a world that doesn't like it on a daily basis, but I wouldn't live life any other way.

Melissa

[tinkerbell]

Labels, labels, labels. I'm just a girl.  I know that and you know that!


tinkerbell

[Becky Sue]

I feel that I have been/and I am a girl that is trapped in a boy's body.  I feel that I was made to wear the wrong clothes. 

[Melissa]

I recently realized that it wasn't that I "felt like a woman living in a man's body", as we can't know for sure what other women feel like, but rather I felt I should have been born in a woman's body and that I should be living as a woman.

Melissa

[umop ap!sdn]

That comes as a relief for me actually. After all the soul searching asking myself do I really feel like a woman - that I shouldn't try to force myself to feel that. Should I have been born a girl? Yes! It seems unfair that I couldn't have that, when half the people on this planet do without even needing to do anything to get it.

But do I sometimes feel like a woman, just automatically without thinking anything beforehand? You betcha.

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I was thinking, we have the gender field in our profiles but even that is only a binary. Where does it leave CDs, not to mention androgynes, what about those who are still questioning, etc. I wonder what would be the social effect on the board if it were more inclusive than that.

[Melissa]

I was thinking, we have the gender field in our profiles but even that is only a binary. Where does it leave CDs, not to mention androgynes, what about those who are still questioning, etc. I wonder what would be the social effect on the board if it were more inclusive than that.

It's actually trinary.  If you click the drop down, there are 3 options: male, female, blank.

Melissa

[umop ap!sdn]

Heh, that's true. 

(And yet there's no blank mood? Strange. )

[katia]

im a woman, but some [wacky] people call me, male to female transexual  ,

[Yvonne]

Most people don't believe I'm a male to female transsexual.  I guess my physical beauty tantalizes them.  I wasn't born female in case you care to know...

[Attis]

I'm a pirate.

*squawk* I'm a parrot! *squawk* :3

-- Bridget

[Christo]

nothin female 2 male.

[Floritine]

M2F Lesbian,

but that really dosen't matter dose it ?   

Floritine

[Lisbeth]

Unicorn - I'm no expert but the way I've heard it is "M2F" is your sexual identity and "Queer" is your sexual preference.

No, I believe Unicorn is talking about being "gender queer."  It's a category for people who do not want to be limited by the male/female binary system.

I also identify as an androgyne.
We are not always considered to be transgender.
Many believe androgynes transcend gender entirely.

Emerald is an example.

I was thinking, we have the gender field in our profiles but even that is only a binary. Where does it leave CDs, not to mention androgynes, what about those who are still questioning, etc. I wonder what would be the social effect on the board if it were more inclusive than that.

It's actually trinary.  If you click the drop down, there are 3 options: male, female, blank.

In one of the tribal languages of New Guinea, there are 11 genders.

[Emerald]

I believe Unicorn is talking about being "gender queer."  It's a category for people who do not want to be limited by the male/female binary system.

I also identify as an androgyne.
We are not always considered to be transgender.
Many believe androgynes transcend gender entirely.

Emerald is an example.

Oh? I'm genderqueer?!? News to me!
True, I've been told I'm somewhat eccentric, but not in reference to my gender/sex! Few would assume from my appearance or behavior that I'm something other than cisgender.

'Genderqueer' describes people who defy gender norms in the very same way homosexuality is referred to as sexually 'queer'. It's more of an umbrella term for those who are not gender 'normal'. The word is not frequently used as a self-reference in my experience.  According to Wikipedia, 'genderqueer' is used more by Transsexuals to describe themselves than any other gender variant group.

I'm apt to believe transcendent Androgynes don't possess a gender... much less a 'queer' gender.
I think gender itself is queer!

-Emerald 

[Lisbeth]

Oh? I'm genderqueer?!? News to me!

LOL.  And nobody agrees on the terms to be used.  Sorry if I used one that you don't identify with.

[J.T.]

not quite sure what type I am yet. andro/intersex/ftm

[Chandra21]

I'm a Male to Female Transexual. I don't really have the money to correct my body at the moment though, and I'm thinking of completing college before I actually begin going forth with hormone therapy (If it gets unbearable, I'll begin hormone therapy before completing it though.)

[Hypatia]

A young woman asked me: "Do you identify as transgender?"
I answered: "I identify as a woman. Transgender is how I got here... I took the long way around."
She said, "Well, I'm glad you finally made it here!"

Right after that, I heard the Dixie Chicks singing "The Long Way Around" from their new album, and it expressed my feelings exactly.

[Butterfly]

M2F to F