Does anyone like their body?

[VioletNight]

I don't like mine at all with one exception. I like my ankles. Having worn socks 24/7 nearly my entire life have left them hairless and really soft and smooth (could very well be a coincidence). My legs are very hairy but then right at the sock line the hair suddenly stops. Then nothing but soft smooth skin.

[MasterAsh]

I don't like mine at all with one exception. I like my ankles. Having worn socks 24/7 nearly my entire life have left them hairless and really soft and smooth (could very well be a coincidence). My legs are very hairy but then right at the sock line the hair suddenly stops. Then nothing but soft smooth skin.

Wow.

Once, I had a very good female friend for the first half of my senior year of high school. One day, annoyed at my negativity about myself, she'd asked if there was anything at all about me I liked. Despite having never considered it before, I responded almost immediately "My ankles." I told her I picked them because they look nice to me compared to everything else.

What a wonderful world we live in. 

[pamshaw]

I hated my body as a male because it was not much of a male body. 5' 7" 140 lbs with thin bones.
I like my body much better as a female but of course most woman are not happy with their body. I hope my A breasts continue to grow and my but and hips become larger but overall I feel quite feminine. I am very happy with my legs and my hair free skin. When SRS removes natures mistake I am sure I will be very happy. I feel very natural as a woman; as a man I felt very unnatural.

Pam

[Luna!]

Hit and miss, I suppose. I don't hate the masculine-looking areas, but they're not as nice as the feminine-looking ones. People keep telling me I'm cute, but I still have a little trouble believing it.

I wouldn't mind gaining a little weight in the right places; I've got no figure at all. Luckily, I make up for it with my charming personality. ^_^

[june bug]

When I first started transitioning I was hyper sensitive about my body on all accounts... my hands were too big, my shoulder too broad, my waist not small enough, too tall, etc. etc.

Heck.  There was a point I was seriously considering getting rib removal and fat injection around my thighs, or whatever they are capable of.

Then I started hanging out with a lot more girls (feminist lesbians and freak alterna-girls in particular) and realized female beauty came in SO many shapes, sizes, and variety.

That's when I really started to appreciate the beauty of the more androgyne parts of myself.  Suddenly I realized my hands weren't really that big for my body type, my shoulders weren't so broad, especially if I stood up straight (shoulders back!), and over time with HRT / Orchi my figure really began to shape up to be more curvy.

Sure... there's still a lot of corrective surgery I need thanks to the ravages of T on my body during puberty, but I'm going for correcting a few mistakes... not trying to look "perfect" or fit some societal "ideal" of beauty.

It's funny too, because with this comfort in my own beauty regardless of some of the things T has done to my body, I've found that people much more readily see me as a woman, and I haven't even had FFS yet, nor do I really "present" as female on a day to day basis.

Anyhow... so yeah... I appreciate where I am beautiful, am definitely going to be correcting a few "edges" that have developed no-thanks to T early in my life, but beyond that I don't think obsessing over other minor "imperfections" with my body is going to make me more happier than accepting how some of those things are actually beautiful.

You know.  Something that really helped me appreciate where I was beautiful was to stop looking at magazines, TV, and Movies with "typically" beautiful women, but rather I started seeking out women with similar body types as myself who are in the media (they're out there, for every body type, I promise!).  It was really paying attention to the subtleties and their imperfections that got me to realize how I had it good.

[Silver]

Not particularly, not as it is now.

I would like to be more masculine, taller, smaller hips, no breasts, bulkier, you get the picture (oh yeah and a dick, that's kind of important). But of course, even with hormones, it won't be the same as if I were born male.

On the other hand, I could be much more feminine. And I'm not. So for that I am grateful and it doesn't bother me so much as it used to. I think what keeps me going is the idea that I can fix this in the future.

I can't relate to you though, I don't have any side of me that wants feminine beauty. And if I do, it's so passive as to not speak up so I don't know of its existence.

Chances are, you won't feminise as much as the girl in that picture. Feminine androgyne work? Maybe like Nicky. Doesn't mean you have to be flamboyant, we're label-defyers and there's no reason why we should reestablish them (they've got too much power for their own good already.)

[june bug]

we're label-defyers and there's no reason why we should reestablish them (they've got too much power for their own good already.)

Amen! 

[Myself]

Not at all.
Hate seeing myself in the mirror every time after I shower and not just because of what is between the legs @@..

Just ugly and wrong, completely, hate it.

I think what keeps me going is the idea that I can fix this in the future.

Probably the same for me here :/ it's definitely not the people around me.

[gothique11]

What woman is happy with her body. LOL 

I know a lot of women like that, including me. It's weird when I have women who are jealous of my body. O_o

Sometimes I feel very attractive, and other times I don't.

I've done all sorts of things, too, that some may question who I am (but, blah, forget them, I'm myself and that's how I roll). I had long hair, and then I shaved it all off except the front bangs... I did that before going in for SRS. I don't think they see that often. When I did it, I got ppl in the trans community that got very angry with me -- how dare I! Then, to top it off, I went and did a drag king show before having SRS. Now, people were mad, and even threatened that they were going to tell the doctor and surgeon that I don't deserve surgery -- I wasn't really trans, according to them. LMFAO

I guess I pushed a few buttons. Although, I also inspired a few people. One friend of mine, who had SRS after me, started doing drag king shows and does it regularly now. Very cool! I haven't done any in a long while, although I went and kinged it for halloween.

I'll go shopping, and I'll go walk into the boys section if I find something funky I like, such as bondage pants or the warm hoodie I'm wearing at this moment. I've had other trans folk freak about that, too. Yet, with a group of women -- no problems. Women do that all of the time.

I guess I'm a trans-rebel. LOL 

[Northern Jane]

Except for the one major flaw (sex at birth) it was/is okay. Of course I wanted the nice hourglass figure that I never got - I got the same cylindrical shape as my mother  - but curvy enough to pass in a bikini at SRS (age 24). Hormonal mismanagement resulted in more masculinization over many years post-op so now I look like my grandmother!  but the ol' bod' is okay. It's practically hairless (nice smooth skin), sensitive in all the right places, and I have even come to like my freckles LOL!

[Miniar]

Actually, I kinda like my body.
If it weren't for my body, I wouldn't have all the good stuff I have in the world right now.
If it weren't for my body, I wouldn't be who I am.

And the body I aim to make of it is built on the foundation of the body I have, and so, I consciously choose to love this foundation, take as good care of it as possible, and accept it's limitations, so I can make the most of what I build upon it.

If that makes any sense..

[El]

I like my legs, and my back but thats about it lol, oh and my eyes

everything else needs changing lol, softer facial features, smoother skin, bigger bum, boobs and of course the "equipment" all wrong ................

[Jeannette]

It'd be a sin not to

[Silver]

I don't like mine at all with one exception. I like my ankles. Having worn socks 24/7 nearly my entire life have left them hairless and really soft and smooth (could very well be a coincidence). My legs are very hairy but then right at the sock line the hair suddenly stops. Then nothing but soft smooth skin.

Coincidence. Socks seem to have sped up hair growth on me.

[june bug]

And the body I aim to make of it is built on the foundation of the body I have, and so, I consciously choose to love this foundation, take as good care of it as possible, and accept it's limitations, so I can make the most of what I build upon it.

If that makes any sense..

Totally. 

[inoutallabout]

And that is what makes us Trans.  To change the body to match the mind.

I feel that everyone has a good idea of what they might see better in themselves with a bit of imagination.  There's plenty of time that could be spent despairing over what you haven't got.  That and well, simply because you didn't feel ideal in, "that body," doesn't mean you couldn't have seen your better qualities for that period of time.

Everyone has insecurities.  Something I've noticed often is that transsexuals let those insecurities overwhelm them to the point of cynicism about the way they feel about themselves.

Meh, just do the best you can with what you've got.  I wouldn't ask anyone to do more than that for me, likewise I don't feel that it's right for anyone to ask that of anyone else.

As far as all this matching body with mind, when does it end?  First you can change your name, your chemicals, your genitalia, but at what point can you be satisfied if you can only focus on what can be changed?


I like what Miniar posted:D

[Naturally Blonde]

No...I wanted a female body but it didn't happen back then and it's not happening now....despite my endless efforts with HRT.

[inoutallabout]

Yeah well, keep it real.  It takes a whole lot more than some mones to fix you up right.

[Naturally Blonde]

Yeah well, keep it real.  It takes a whole lot more than some mones to fix you up right.

I think I do keep it real which seems to be problem for some people!
HRT hasn't had the expected effects with me, I can't lie and say it has. Others may have had better results?

[Walter]

I don't really like my body but I don't want to change it through any kind of surgery either. It's just not what I want to do. If I could change it by other means than I would