Yeah, despite the custom title, 'bishounen' (alternate sp.) is really where I'm at right now. This was what I was going for, just a kind of slow drift from vaguely feminine, through really feminine (I'm quite possibly the girliest 'straight' boy I know), to actually female-looking.
It's quite nice. I decided to slow down for a bit and rest, so to speak. The problem is that it's close enough to being a girl for me to feel alright, but not quite close enough to keep the dysphoria away all the time (though it helps).
I hope I don't offend YoungSoulRebel or his friend with this next one, but he said 'literally'...
Technically, there's not anything 'girly' in the
literal translation of bishounen; 美少年 in kanji.
Looking at the kanji themselves, it's made of the ones for 'beauty' (not necessarily fem. beauty), and 'boy'.
So literally, it's just 'pretty boy'.
No problems with the smoother translation, though, as they're (we're?) often seen as femininely pretty even if they're not trying to be. The ones who
are trying are the
really cute ones.