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The worst thing about being transsexual?

Started by Nero, July 01, 2007, 10:30:20 PM

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Nero

Hello guys and dolls.
In your opinion, what is the single worst thing about being born in the body of the opposite sex?
I know a lot of stuff about it is simply awful, but what is the worst thing to you?
I look forward to your answers.

Nero
Nero was the Forum Admin here at Susan's Place for several years up to the time of his death.
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Elizabeth

Hey Nero,

For me, it was having to hide who I was for most of my life. Having to live this huge lie. Never being able to tell anyone how I truly felt. It isolated me and made me feel all alone. I am not sure I can ever overcome this feeling and feel like I am a part of something. It seems no matter what I do, I always feel like I am inside looking out.

Love always,
Elizabeth
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tinkerbell

Puberty.  Knowing that you are a girl and physically developing as the opposite sex.  It's one of the most difficult things a human being can endure.

tink :icon_chick:
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Buffy

Having bottled up the emotion, fear and pain for 30 years. The relief when I finally talked about my feelings to my Doctor was like the world being lifted of my shoulders.

Buffy
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Maebh

Growing up with the isolation, the confusion and the frustration.

HLLL&R

Maebh
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seldom

Quote from: Tink on July 01, 2007, 10:43:43 PM
Puberty.  Knowing that you are a girl and physically developing as the opposite sex.  It's one of the most difficult things a human being can endure.

tink :icon_chick:

I have to agree with Tink here.  I did not figure out everything until the first signs of puberty (very early on).  Feeling hormonally wrong and not sure what I could do about it.
The anxiety, the shame, the fear.  SO MUCH.  ALL of it related to puberty. 

God where else to go.

Luckily I was not socially isolated in HS and beyond, and I figured out to act a little bit more like myself.  But it was a poor compromise that showed cracks as T's poison (no offense transmen, its poison to me) began to take over my physical appearance more.

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Dorothy

I agree with Tink and Amy too.  When in puberty I thought nobody was going thru what I was. I was very alone.  I thought I was the only one.  I was wrong. :(
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Christo

my chest.  can accept evrything else.  my chest gotta go & its goin' :icon_dance:
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almost,angie

   #1.   Being punished as a young child, say, 4-7, I was punished for numeruos things that boys don`t do. Out of frustration my mom would shake me by my hair and screem at me. I played with girls. ran with girls, sang with girls, but was punished for being like girls, (myself).
 
   #2.    For servival, I watched what boys did and how they act really closely. When I started school they had to hold me back because they thought I had learning disabilities. No I dont!!!!! I was preoccupied with trying to act like a boy so the boys would stop saying," ewww you act like a girl" and the girls would say," ewwww go away this is girls only.

   #3.   To depressed for edjucation. I missed out all the way through school. I was depressed and progressingly worse as years went on. I would loose bits and peaces of my self worth every year I would have to act for acceptance.  Again for servival; I learnd to stop the teasing and bulliing through violance. With my male body, size, and cordination I was capable of learning to punch but used this as little as possible. I hated hurting people.
 
   #4.   My children....................................................................... :embarrassed:   
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Melissa

I would say the worst thing is not having experienced growing up as the gender we knew we should have been.  I wish I had a history as a girl, that my parents, brother, sister, family saw me as female, but now everything is messed up.  Just the fact that my memories will never be of growing up as a girl really hurts.
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Steph

Hmmmm this is a hard one as I've yet to live my life.  However I would like to feel that at the end of my life I will have at least a fleeting moment, a chance to look back and say the worst thing about being a transsexual would have been not being able to transition.

Steph
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zombiesarepeaceful

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mavieenrose

Quote from: Steph on July 02, 2007, 01:33:11 PM
Hmmmm this is a hard one as I've yet to live my life.  However I would like to feel that at the end of my life I will have at least a fleeting moment, a chance to look back and say the worst thing about being a transsexual would have been not being able to transition.

Steph

I really love your post Steph, I think it's a really positive take on an otherwise tragic situation :) 

That said, I'm going to be far less imaginitive and go with...

...being the only girl in an all boys secondary school and having to spend far more time with boys than I should have done as I was growing up.  I have so many memories of staring out of the classroom window at the girls' school across the road and just preying I'd be magically transported there; I just wanted to be with my girl friends, as I should have been, and not where I was.

MVER XXX
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Suzy

Worst thing?  Well I would have to say the secrecy and taboo that I've had to negotiate for over 40 years now.  After a while that turns into shame, which is never a good emotion.  Later in life, it has developed into confusion in every little aspect of life, down to having to always consciously think about which restroom to enter.  One other difficulty is that by this time in life, there are so many other lives intertwined with my own, that it is impossible to think just of my own happiness.  It is like having to traverse a mine field on a pogo stick.

Kristi
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Shana A

That I spent so many years in pain before finally coming to the realization of who/what I am. And the damage that hiding my feelings caused to myself and people around me. I think my life would've been much happier if I could've expressed my gender differences openly from childhood.

zythyra
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde


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almost,angie

Quote from: Kristi on July 02, 2007, 06:20:42 PM
It is like having to traverse a mine field on a pogo stick.

Kristi
;)  I agree,
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katia

the inability to express my feelings to my loved ones.  i  wish i were able to make people understand how it feels to be a woman born into a male body.  i wish they walked in my shoes for [only] one hour, just one hour.
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