Some assembly required

[Tamaki]

My wife and I were out shopping last night talking about hormones when she made a comment about the hormones in her body. I mentioned that I had the same hormones in my body and she replied that she came with hers. So I guess that makes me a woman with some assembly required and my wife a woman with no assembly required. I had a good laugh about it but started thinking that this was about as good a description that I have heard for being trans.

What are some creative/funny descriptions for being trans that you have heard?

Edit: Some parts sold separately.

[spacial]

Not wishing to come between your wife and you, but we might say the same thing about a diabetic for example. Or someone being successfully treated fro depresion.

I suppose what it boils down to that that, for many women, their opposition to transgender, however they may express it, is a belief that their territory is being invaded, possibly usurped.

The same is not usually said my men about transmen.

[Tamaki]

If I can't make light of my own situation I might as well be dead. I do suffer from depression and have to laugh about it at times. Taking myself too seriously causes me nothing but grief. Laughing at the absurdity of my situation helps to lift me out the suicidal mood that I can get into when I know that I'm a woman and everyone else sees a man.

You are right that she is uncomfortable with it and it does feel like I'm invading her space and since I'm more feminine than she is it unsettling to her. However, we still choose to be together and being able to make light of our situation, not just about me being trans, allows us to get through the tough times. After all we've been through in the last 18 years it is our humor and our ability to talk about things that has gotten us through.

[spacial]

Hannah

Thank you so much for the clarification. I did kinda miss the point. You are right about trying to find something to laugh at and the absurd is often there. I do admire you for finding it.

I am also completely please that you are both still together.

Now, having said all that, I really hope I haven't completely derailed what could still be, a pretty amusing and intertesting thread.

[Lisbeth]

BTW, men naturally have estrogen in their bodies, and women naturally have testosterone. The only difference between the hormones in men's and women's bodies is the proportion of E to T.

[Tamaki]

I should have posted this in humor.

The hormones aren't the issue. Really. Being trans is an absurd proposition. Heck life is an absurd proposition. Both can be looked at as a cruel joke and we can spend the rest of our lives wondering why me or we can step back and laugh at ourselves. The last thing I want to be is some woman that didn't come with all my parts that I have to put together myself but at least I can find the humor in this insanity.

I have been called many things, not out of cruelty but of others peoples discomfort and insecurity. I could have taken it personally and become angry but I chose to laugh about it instead. Some of them were pretty funny. Every time the other person was shocked that I was laughing and it totally defused the situation. They were friends not strangers through.

I can be very healing for me to laugh about life instead of crying all the time.

[jillian]

Thank you Hannah. You actually made me cry.  Yes, I am extremely emotional right now, but I just completely got what you were saying.
Just in case you are wondering, I think that is a good thing.  It wasnt painful tears.

You are so right about laughing at it. Ive done that with so much in life. This is the hardest thing Ive ever come to terms with, so far anyways. I hope that one day, I will be able to laugh about all this. The one thing I do know, is if I push on, then I will have a day when I laugh about now. Thanks.

[JulieC.]

Well I'll try to keep within the contest of the original post:

Since it's soo expensive to become a woman how about the "6 million dollar woman"

Or when a guy says to you "you look like a million bucks"  You answer "How did you know?"

Satisfaction guaranteed.

[Tak]

always thought stuck in the middle worked personally, with the whole gender wars thing feels like being a covert op or a double agent at times, oh Double Agent kind of works on its own, *deep stereotypical transvoice* "the names Bond, Jane Bond" lol

[Rowan Danielle]

"Under reconstruction" comes to mind.

"Pieces and parts mismatch" would also work.

I am currently visualizing a tee shirt with the Venus symbol set low and three arrowheads branching from it.  Two point to the breasts and one points to the crotch.  Both of the above phrases are inside it.  It would need to be worn in a TG friendly environment though.

[Nemo]

LOL I actually saw a trans-guy's icon on LJ that said something along the lines of "Man: some assembly required" (Can't remember the exact wording) Love the other ones too ^_^

But yeah, it's very true - much rather laugh about it, done too much crying over the years