just giving myself a shove forward

[jonjon]

Maybe if i write it down i might feel more confident. So none of you have to reply.

But i'm unsure about going to work in shorts. Since i discovered myself as FTM i've been trying to slip away from the female roles that i felt i had to be a part of and get into my own routine of just being me. I remember getting picked on TONS at school for not having shaved my legs... so i got real conscious about it.

So... i'm a short ass, to put it one way and i still haven't found anywhere that sells 'small' sized trousers for guys. So i guess i'm guna have to spend the rest of my life in shorts... cos they're the only things that fit. Yanno those long legged shorts that are in fashion these days? And i got myself a great pair the other day and i wana wear them for work... But i'm so self-conscious about what the guys at work will feel about seeing me in my hairy legs >_>

I duno... maybe i'm just being silly >_> Maybe i should just stop worrying what everyone else thinks and just go and do what i wana do. Maybe i'll think about it 

[Dennis]

It actually took me a while to get over feeling self conscious about hairy legs. Must've been all those years of programming me that I must shave my legs. I finally got over it last Christmas in Mexico. Helps that I pass all the time now so of course nobody's going to make a fuss about hairy legs.

I think just biting the bullet and doing will help you get past it. And have you tried children's sizes for pants?

Dennis

[angelsgirl]

It's almost funny that you're still concerned about hairy legs. It just goes to show how hard that gets drilled into girls in childhood. I won't even let a doctor look at me if I haven't shaved, and how dumb is that, like a doctor wouldn't know that women grow hair too!

Try viewing your hair as manly, maybe you'll feel more comfortable about it when you do. As for the folks at work, well, I think it'll help them recognize your manliness if anything...unless they are really in denial, then just ignore them. 

[jonjon]

Yeah, i was guna wear my shorts at work today, but the weather looked too cold this morning. But it brightened up real nice and warm later! And according to the weatherman it's gune be like it until the weekends over - So i might wear them tomorrow!

What i worry about though, is the customers at work who still see me as female and then they see me with hairy legs... are they just guna think i'm a dirty tom-boy?  Or will they actually turn away thinking to themselves "so it really is a guy?" I would personally prefer the second option myself >_>

But maybe i should feck them all anyways. It aint their problem... and it really aint my problem, it's just life. My life after all and it's no one elses business  Now.. if only i could drill that into my conscience >_>

[ssindysmith]

You know before I transitioned I shaved my legs at least three times a week, seeing a guy with shaved legs is not that uncommon just like earings.

[jonjon]

You know before I transitioned I shaved my legs at least three times a week, seeing a guy with shaved legs is not that uncommon just like earings.

That is one of those things i'm guna save for huge goth nights out on the town ^_- I'm bi and i also consider it a turn on to see a guy clean shaven from top to bottom. I think i might shave my legs actually because i'm off out tomorrow night and that is another thread i need to create in the fashion forums ^_^