Add me to the list of people who see themselves as "guys" and that's it. Not that I don't identify as trans, or that the identity isn't important to me, I just... I AM a guy. I don't want to be part of a different category of men, because then it feels like I'm not man enough to be a man, if that makes sense.

So, I'm a man. If you'd like to be more specific, I'm a hobbit-sized, geeky, awkward man. If you want more details, then I'm a hobbit hobbit-sized, geeky, awkward trans man.

There's more to me than my gender identity. Much more.

Gonna echo what many others have already said here: I'm a man with a medical condition, and that's about the long and short of it.

I've worked hard to not feel ashamed about being trans, but it's still not a point of pride -- and even if it were, I'm a private person and wouldn't see a need to make that information available to all. Regardless, I'm just doing my best with the hand I've been dealt, like everyone else on the planet. My problems and circumstances may be a little more unusual than most, but my primary goals in life -- to be happy and to be my most authentic self -- are no different from anyone else's.

I don't identify as trans at all. I hardly use the word actually. However, people will know and will think that due to the fact that I don't 'pass'. It's like I am outing myself without even trying to.

Trans is no more an identity than any other medical condition. I don't identify as 'anemia' just because I have it. Being trans is just a condition IMO. My identity is male. My body isn't aligned properly with that and so my condition is 'trans'.

Medical conditions aren't anyone's business but your own.

I am just a man, nothing more.
I feel more like I'm lying when I'm forced to pretend I am a woman.
No, more accurate would be that the others are lying to me when they call me "she"...

Quote from: ScottyMac on December 01, 2014, 02:13:34 PM
I know I am, as I'm a male currently in a female body. But I just can't relate to it all, I just see myself as a normal teenage boy. I think as soon as I get the hormones and surgeries I won't even think that I'm any different from other guys, the only thing different is my childhood but I never think/talk about that anyway.

I seem to always see people feel like they're lieing to their friends by not telling them they are trans. I just don't understand that, I won't be telling anyone. I'm just a normal guy, and want to be treated like it. Does it really feel like you're lieing by not telling people?

I sort of have always felt this way too. I feel like I have always identified pretty much the same way and not disclosing every medical detail I had to go through isn't "lying" & I think it's silly anyway belitles anyone for not feeling comfortable with certain parts of themselves that other's aren't & never will be. Where I break away from seeing all trans* people as a community is if we are both transitioning in the same direction, a lot of us happen to set each other to the same standard is NOT true.

Personally, my transition is the most honest thing I have ever done. I don't want people to see me any other way. I know everyone is not that way and that is totally okay. The problem is that a lot of people don't seem to realize one little thing doesn't make us all alike...and that's where things get thorny.