Hello everyone! I am brand new to posting here, but I have been reading the forums avidly for some time.
I'm 23. During my life I've lived as a boy and as a girl (man and woman don't seem right since I'm so young), but both eventually felt uncomfortable. These days I present as androgynously as possible. I'm pretty cagey about my assigned gender because I feel like people put a lot of meaning on it that isn't there. (I may not be able to control people's reactions, but I can control the information they get!)
You could say I'm in the middle of transition or maybe at the end of it. I took hormones for several years, then stopped. I may take them again. I have one surgery under my belt and one more to go (this August!) before I feel like I'll be done with them. I've considered others but may never get them. After this next one, I want to work on finding nonsurgical ways to alter my body and come to terms with it. In most ways I like where my body is at now except that I am trying to lose some weight and gain some muscle through kind of a lifestyle change, but that's a whole nother topic!
I have a hard time trying to live in a gender space that doesn't exist in my society. But I think it was harder to try and live as someone I wasn't. I think my biggest problem is feeling very lonely, which I guess is why I finally joined these forums!
Anyway, other than all that, I love to cook, draw, and study religions. I watch a LOT of horror movies. I also volunteer a lot at my local LGBT resource center. (This is one of the main things in my life that helps me feel less lonely!) I also like to sew sometimes and make my own clothes when I can.
I'm very shy but I look forward to chatting with y'all in the future.