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Title: Lost in transition: Searching for belonging as a trans man
Post by: Natasha on October 01, 2008, 05:25:04 PM
Post by: Natasha on October 01, 2008, 05:25:04 PM
Lost in transition: Searching for belonging as a trans man
http://www.xtra.ca/public/Toronto/Lost_in_transition-5593.aspx (http://www.xtra.ca/public/Toronto/Lost_in_transition-5593.aspx)
9/30/2008
My wife and I were knee-deep in February snow when we
arrived at a northern Ontario campground earlier this year. I was
proud and uncharacteristically confident with my breasts strapped
down, my voice a high tenor and my chin boasting a month's sprout of
reluctant, pubescent hair. It was the first time I'd attended a
queer retreat since coming out as transsexual and beginning the
physical transition from a female body to a male body just four
months prior.
For weeks I had entertained visions of myself walking through those
doors as a man, possibly attracting the gaze of a few gay guys (what
better validation than that?) and sparking some buzz about who I was
and why I had a wife.
http://www.xtra.ca/public/Toronto/Lost_in_transition-5593.aspx (http://www.xtra.ca/public/Toronto/Lost_in_transition-5593.aspx)
9/30/2008
My wife and I were knee-deep in February snow when we
arrived at a northern Ontario campground earlier this year. I was
proud and uncharacteristically confident with my breasts strapped
down, my voice a high tenor and my chin boasting a month's sprout of
reluctant, pubescent hair. It was the first time I'd attended a
queer retreat since coming out as transsexual and beginning the
physical transition from a female body to a male body just four
months prior.
For weeks I had entertained visions of myself walking through those
doors as a man, possibly attracting the gaze of a few gay guys (what
better validation than that?) and sparking some buzz about who I was
and why I had a wife.
Title: Re: Lost in transition: Searching for belonging as a trans man
Post by: Dennis on October 01, 2008, 06:22:00 PM
Post by: Dennis on October 01, 2008, 06:22:00 PM
Dunno. Maybe I'm different from a lot of guys with a trans history. Although I dated lesbians and tried to convince myself I was one, it always felt like sticking a square peg in a round hole to me. It never felt like my community, although, as in many groups, some became my friends and remained my friends. I just never got into the whole culture.
Now if I lost my straight guy fishin and beer drinkin culture, I'd be a little choked.
Dennis <--- redneck wannabe
Now if I lost my straight guy fishin and beer drinkin culture, I'd be a little choked.
Dennis <--- redneck wannabe