how open are you?

[cindybc]

Hi, JENNIFER, You are so right. Becoming a woman is not the easiest job there is. I mean this transitioning from male to female will mean that many changes need to take place. 

I believe that HRT will facilitate these many changes in views, concepts and thought patterns. These changes will be very profound and different from anything you have been used to and comfortable with in your previous life, quite the opposite you were conditioned to feel, experience, and think as you did in the old persona.

One needs to refine and accept the female within, the embodiment of a very complex individual who has a set of very different characteristics, feelings and understandings of the human environment around her.  Welcome to the new you. You are still the same person just your attitudes and personality will be changed to new persona, spiritually and psychologically as well as physical. It's about like turning oneself inside out to view the things you once viewed.

Cindy 

[cindybc]

Ok thanks for clearing that up for me Redfish, now it makes all the sence in the world. Yes regardless the labels and the label transsexual is only transitory during the transitioning years once one crosses the line (SRS) one should be ready to accept and bu the true self, the one we have longed to be for most of our life.. I quite agree. There is probably as many different descriptions to this evolutionary part in our lives as there are folk transitioning

Cindy 

[cindybc]

Hon if it is for the reason is for guidance I would call that being of service to another. I do agree also about graduating transitioning before they have the surgery. Actually I have looked at that part as putting the period at the end a sentence.  I was full time for 4 years before the surgery and I believe that I was ready to be myself much before then. I look forward to seeing your book.

Cindy

[DonnaC]

Hi Jon,

What a great topic!  Being open is the only way to go.  Like you said, there are times when people are walikng on egg shells when I'm around, asking each other "is she or isn't she"?  And like you I simply appraoch them, inotroduce myself as Donna and that relieves the tension.

Donna

[deviousxen]

I told another friend. So now its basically this one guy I never see, who's pretty open minded, my best friend sibling thingy, some random girl who doesn't know the full extent, and now my old friends older sister. She is very nice and supportive and is pretty smart. She took it fine... Which surprised me. My older sibling thing knows TONS more about me cause of "In wine there is truth". It actually started when we were one upping each other on how weird we were respectively. I mentioned anti androgens and she was basically only concerned about my health, which is understandable. I'm more worried about my friends though....