Well, I will start by saying that I am new here and that my name is Gene. I'm fairly new to the topic and I'm sorry if I offend anyone with word misuse. I'm 25, I am in the military, and I have recently come out as being transgendered. My story is probably a little longer and more complex than you would care to read about here, so to keep things short and to the point: I have recently been forced to confront transgender feelings that I have had since about preschool. I had always felt deeply ashamed of them and because of this I said to myself "Leave it be, someday it will fix itself." I would focus on non sexual (and to some extent social) areas of my life to find satisfaction. I've lived for my job and education since adolescence . The issue never fixed itself and the feelings of being very uncomfortable as a male and only got worse if I tried to suck it up and conform to traditional gender roles. Recently my job has hit a rough spot and I decided to try to conform once more by seeking a relationship - with my feelings becoming more intense than ever. I told myself all of my anger, sadness, confusion and so forth about my body, assigned gender, and my role in sex were not going to resolve themselves so I decided to see some people for help and support. This seems like a great resource for transgendered people so I signed up and that's where I am right now.
There is always hope is a life lesson that I am very fond of. Hope helps keep people going and is the promise of what's to come. Something that I like about the world is that good people can leave the world better off than when they found it.
Once again, I'm Gene and it's nice to meet everybody! :)
Hi Gene :icon_wave:
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V M
Quote from: V M on June 08, 2013, 08:59:30 PM
Hi Gene :icon_wave:
Welcome to Susan's :) Glad ton have you here
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V M
Thanks for the links, I will check them out!
Hi Gene, it's nice to meet you :) . I know exactly what you mean whe you mentioned leaving your TG thoughts alone so they will fix themselves - I took the same approach for 12 years myself. It took me a while to realize that my thoughts don't need "fixing" sure, it may not be normal but that doesn't mean that I'm broken either. Anyway, we're happy to have you here and I look forward to reading your future posts. Good luck! :)
Hi Gene, :icon_wave:
Welcome to our little family. Over 11560 . That would be one heck of a family reunion.
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Janet )O(
Welcome, Gene. I just want to add, thank you for your service.
Hi Gene, welcome to Susan's Place! I'm up near Boston. Thank you for your service, we have quite a crowd of veterans here as well. Here's our Roll Call (https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,96755.0.html) thread. See you around the site, hugs, Devlyn