Like many other correspondents I did deal with dysphoria & depression and like so many here, find transitioning to be filled with enormously positive experiences.  I feel great and profoundly fortunate to be able to transition with love and the other resources I need.

Quote from: Shantel on July 23, 2013, 02:43:23 PM
Hah Jay, you and I are on the same page and indeed wisdom comes with age, experience and hindsight along with buckets of frustration and tears! What a fine gentelman you have become, and I am just a curmudgeonly androgynous being stuck in non-binary suspension, but even that is better than what it was in my past. 

I've often thought that when I read your posts-- that you and I are often on the same wavelength even though coming from different sides (if that is what they are--- I'm not convinced) of the gender divide.

Fine gentleman (I wrote gentile man)haha, hmm well....

I think wisdom does come with age, it's a good thing we get SOMETHING!!

--Jay

Quote from: aleon515 on July 24, 2013, 02:40:45 PM
I've often thought that when I read your posts-- that you and I are often on the same wavelength even though coming from different sides (if that is what they are--- I'm not convinced) of the gender divide.

Fine gentleman (I wrote gentile man)haha, hmm well....

I think wisdom does come with age, it's a good thing we get SOMETHING!!

--Jay

You bet, hugs for my cool friend Jay! 

Quote from: JulieR on July 24, 2013, 05:22:29 PM
Joanna, the "D" in GID stands for disorder, not dysphoria.  No, dysphoria, dissatisfaction, disgruntlement or any other "D" is required to support a diagnosis of GID.  That threw me for a while too, until my therapist informed me otherwise.  My GID diagnosis is based on gender euphoria of a sort, I imagine how great it would be to be female, but I don't really horribly hate having a male body.

Even the GID diagnosis draws fire, as if implying a person with trans tendencies is somehow sick or defective.  One alternative descriptive term I've heard proposed is "Gender Expression Anxiety Disorder".  Even though it is still called "disorder", it comes closer to a descriptive, but not destructive, term for having trans tendencies.

Wow, very interesting. This hadn't occurred to me, though the "euphoria" you mention does sound right also. I generally get anxious about things that I perceive to be completely selfish and that make me happy, suspicious even, so I'm happy-but-not-quite too. But there definitely is that feeling of aspirational desire to... become, I guess. What I have right now, at this very moment, isn't incorrect, but that doesn't mean there can't be something else even more right.

Maybe the other thing that tempers my gender dysphoria is that I don't know what my ideal body would be like, being nongendered inside and all. I don't really know what direction I would go in, even if it were made available to me, beyond the hysto.