Quick poll - Gender-blessed or Gender-cursed?

[Emerald]

Just a quickie!
-Emerald 

[TheBattler]

I first glance my guess is how is your happiness about being TG. Since I am currently very unhappy  I guess I am cursed by my Gender.

Alice (who should be working)

[Melissa]

I chose neither because I just am what I am.  I don't look at it as a blessing or a curse - just another thing in life.

Melissa

[Buffy]

I chose neither because I just am what I am.  I don't look at it as a blessing or a curse - just another thing in life.

Melissa

What Melissa said above...

Buffy

[Chaunte]

I put both.  It's wonderful being able to understand both sides.  It's terrible at the cost that it requires.

CHaunte

[Nero]

Hello Emerald.
Very good question.
I chose "gender-cursed", but I just got out of the shower so my answer may change in an hour or so.

My feelings on this depend on certain factors. If I couldn't transition, if I have to go the rest of my days with these two hideous growths on my chest, and being perceived as a "large, aggressive butch woman"
then I am cursed.
Now, if I transition (and while I have hope about transition), then I am blessed.
In that case, it doesn't bother me having been born this way.
Sure, had I been born anatomically correct, life would be so much easier, and I may be tall and handsome like my father (or not), but I seriously doubt I would be ME.
I wouldn't be the same person I know and love, so I wouldn't wish it any other way.

Nero

[Mario]

Not one or the other. I was the born the way I was for a reason, no mistake by God. I had a very good childhood as a tomboy, and a very interesting, non boring life as a woman and a man.

                                                    Marco

[sky]

Well I feel proud that so many want to join my sex.

People here make me feel I have something special.

And thats a great feeling thanks everyone.

So Gender Blessed.


sky

[Robyn]

Gender blessed. 

How many have the opportunity to have lived in two genders?

I'm so happy that I found my way home.

Robyn

[tinkerbell]

Gender blessed. 

How many have the opportunity to have lived in two genders?

I'm so happy that I found my way home.

Robyn

Ahhhhh  my kind of girl!  thanks Robyn!


tinkerbell

[Jillieann Rose]

I put both. I'm blessed with my gender. It is great to be female.
But also cursed for what it is doing to my relationship with my wife.
After the joined theropy session we had tonight i'm down.

Jillieann

[LynnER]

I said blessed..... read my "what did I do to deserve this" topic to see why....

things could be allot worse, Trust me  *Hugs*

[Casey]

I said gender blessed. I've had to look at some things that most people simply accept as true and never need to examine. Plus I've gotten over that whole "I can't do that because of my gender" thing. My new motto is what's the point of being transgendered if you're going to restrict the experiences you'll allow yourself to have.

[amberwish]

right now i say im gender blessed. because i see and hear from all the loving people here at susans i am now as a crossdresser enjoying my life more than i ever have.   i dont want it to change fromthat for now but you never know what will happen.

   hugs and 

[MarcosGirl]

Gender-blessed!


Pam

[Vanessa V.]

Blessed...

Being in touch with both sides gives you so much more insight into the mystery of gender...

You understand both where men and women are coming from...

That kind of empathy can be helpful in life...

-Nessa

[Sheila]

I put both as I feel very blessed to be who I am. I love being female, but on the other side of the coin I would not put this on any other person. It was hell in my first 50 years of life. If I would not have had this my life would have been so much happier or if I could have transitioned earlier then my life would have been a lot happier. So it was a curse in a way but it has been a blessing as I have always seen things that other guys didn't. I tried to hide them but I saw a lot of good in people and I have always tried to nurture people. I guess I was a nurturer as I was the so called man of the house, I think I became the wife, housekeeper and babysitter all in one final swoop at age 8 or 9. I took it on and I feel that was a blessing that my brother and sister had someone to come home to. I got married early and had more kids, didn't learn my lesson did I? LOL So it is a blessing.
Sheila

[Sarah Louise]

I have been thinking about this one since you put it here, looking at it each day and not responding.  I guess both would have to be the answer.

Cursed because the first part of my life was so miserable and blessed because I realized the problem and corrected it by transitioning.

Sarah L.

[cindianna_jones]

As I concluded in my book:

I have had the unique opportunity to see life from both sides; male and female.  I have lived much more than a full life.  I have lived two lifetimes.  No one should be so blessed.

It is a wonderful life.  There have been some very tough times.  That makes victory all the sweeter.

Cindi

[grazia]

Till now I have considered myself gender-cursed and I think that this will be my opinion till (and if) I'll be able to be finally myself.
Anyway I am trusting that my opinion will be different then, but now that I feel like a secret agent behind the enemy lines I am unable to see the good that there is in any experience.
Neverless, I have to say that my perspective is changing and I have to thank all of you for this.