Fractal irony

[Staci3336]

I'm grateful for the never-quite-man who got me safely to this ferry point, and I welcome up the newly awakened woman who was so sure of being not welcome that she slept for all those decades.

Hi Padma, I have to say I have read this part of your post over and over,,it says so much. It really summarizes the whole idea of transitioning when you really think about it?

[Padma]

I've been writing to a friend trying to explain what's going on for me, and I was struggling for a way to convey it, but it's somehow easier when I tell it like a fairy tale. So I wrote this:

It's as though the man in me was always just acting as a steward, or a regent - and now the queen has awoken, he can stand down and retire, and she can assume sovereignty of my body. And here I am, the awakened queen, and I'm wandering around this castle I've never properly lived in before, saying "Is this really all mine now?"

[Gabby]

Hi Padma, I have to say I have read this part of your post over and over,,it says so much. It really summarizes the whole idea of transitioning when you really think about it?

I saw myself as a war machine, when I've always been much much more