I feel really special to embark on this journey! Am I the only one, I feel as if all trans people are so strong to be themselves and that takes true courage. I feel as if we define beauty, courage, and strength. We all come from different pasts and its up to us where we end up. Just because were trans doesn't mean there is anything wrong with us were just special. People truly don't understand what its like to be us until it hits home. Whether you open up to your father, mother, brother, sister, wife, husband, who ever if they truly love you they'll accept you! My eyes have truly open to see beauty comes in all shape and sizes and everyone is truly beautiful and we all have good in us, its up to us how we show it. I was reading a speech President Johnson gave during the 60's and something he said stuck out to me. "Freedom asks more than it gives", what do you ladies take this quote personally? Im looking forward to hear all of your reply's!

I consider being transgender a blessing and a beautiful part of me, even as it makes my life ten times harder.

And I'm privileged to have the opportunity to see life from both sides of the gender divide.

"Freedom asks more than it gives"

Freedom only exists because it has been wrought forth by the blood,sweat,tears and the scrafice of those willing to place others and ideals above themselves and their personal safety.

Thats what it means to me..

As for the 'Special' part I think having the 'insite' from the other side is quite helpful and special ...  even though I pretended most of it, but got to see it.  It's kinda like what I know/learned from when I used to play within the dark evil side of society.  In the end what I learned was that I didn't really need to learn or try all the things I did but conversly they made me who I am today and I would not be the person I am having not been thru it.  0.@ Bizzarre!!  That insite helps with situations to this day as well even though its not wholly a TS alone experience.  I sometimes wonder how or why I survived having lived as the other sex and myself on the WiLd SiDe for so long back then.   That diversity of experience is special to me.

Being forced to act the male role for so many years has provided me with a special set of skills most females do not own.

I feel there is an ultimate meaning to my life and trek, and that at the appropriate time G-d will choose to reveal them to me, until then, I am doing my best for my children and the Nation.

Am I special because of my GID? Yes and not, at times it has been a blessing at other times a curse...

As a matter of fact I feel really special because my ability to make people feel happy, safe, and optimistic

I feel special because I have magic..I can do things most people cannot do...

Sometimes I do feel special for being trans but I don't have very many guy Experiances like some others. Everyone use to ask me to rate the difference in sex from being male and feme but I had never had any of that good old fun time before srs. But other things it is nice to know both sides of like the difference in personal hygiene and standing to pee vs sitting and peeling

Quote from: girl you look fierce on April 12, 2013, 01:57:39 PM
I feel special but not in a good way... I get so jealous of cis people...

Ditto.
Hoping to get over it one day but sometimes its cripplingly bad.

Special no.  I do not feel special.  Am I happy I got to take this journey, big YES.

As for freedom, transition for me has meant freedom from fear.  I had to confront the greatest fears in my life to become the woman I am today.  So my freedom asked me to overcome my fear.  It then paid me back by me gaining a life in return. 

I'm definately getting far more out of it than I paid in!

I wouldn't trade ths ride, this life, for anything including being born cis.

Most times I do feel special in that being trans has afforded me the ability to see life from many perspectives. Forcing me in a way to examine and analyze all I experience from multiple viewpoints.

"Special" also has the ability to send cold shivers up my spine. Many times I've heard from a g/f "You're not at all like other guys" When they find out just how unlike a guy, well.... So much for being special.

Though I often curse being given this gift, now that decades of shame and guilt have been minimized, I have come to feel that it truely is a gift and not the curse I once thought it was.

At any point prior to starting transition, I would have traded my life for that of any cis woman. I felt cursed.

Now that I've started to transition, I wouldn't trade my life or body for anything. I get to develop and go through a second puberty. But in a way unlike any cis person, I'll cherish and love each and every day of this for the rest of my life. I feel special.

I believe me being trans makes me a very special girl.

Whether or not I am trans, I am special. We all are, everyone.

Quote from: Tristan on April 12, 2013, 01:30:22 PM
Sometimes I do feel special for being trans but I don't have very many guy Experiances like some others. Everyone use to ask me to rate the difference in sex from being male and feme but I had never had any of that good old fun time before srs. But other things it is nice to know both sides of like the difference in personal hygiene and standing to pee vs sitting and peeling

Oh, that's easy...for guys, it's all about the penis and penetration...for girls, it's all about the emotional connection and arousal (specifically the "getting there" part--it's called "foreplay", fellas...)

Of course, everyone is different, but I'd bet that most people are like that.

"Freedom asks more than it gives"

Most people enjoy freedom, and have no real sense of what it is, or how we have it.

Freedom gives us the opportunity to be the best we can be--and we define what is "best".

We have this opportunity, simply because we have men and women who are willing to give their lives, if needed, so that the rest of us are safe, and can enjoy life. We owe these men and women a great debt, which cannot ever be paid in full.

I don't feel special, I feel punished.

For freedom: many brave men and women have sacrificed so much so that I can can sit around and try nail polish. I don't know how to thank them but I try.

Every human being, every living creature is special in one way or another - that is the law of Nature . Even with smallest tiny creature - there has never been one exactly the same as it and there will never be.
As for us, I totally agree with those who said that it is a blessing and curse at the same time. It used to be curse, while I was struggling against it, denying to myself what I ever was to comply with expectations of others or simply to adapt in order to survive. I started to see it as a blessing after I finally came into terms with myself and decided in favor of transition as that would be my only hope for salvation.
Girls, who mentioned those other extra skills, which would always be a totally unfamiliar territory for other females... Yes, very very much this. I could not instantly forget them and some of them are quite useful. We all now how men think and what they do they mean when they say this and that, thought at least in my case, I sometimes struggle with their motivation.

But if I could turn the time back and make sure that I was born without GD (whatever -  a boy or a girl) - I would totally do this. But, given the karmic implications probably this had to happen with me, or I was simply a part of the Universe statistics

So, if men are from Mars and women from Venus - are transgender people the true natives of Earth?

I don't know about special, but I do know we are all unique, so however we live can be right for us if we are honest with ourselves.

Karen.