Susan's Place Logo

News:

Based on internal web log processing I show 3,417,511 Users made 5,324,115 Visits Accounting for 199,729,420 pageviews and 8.954.49 TB of data transfer for 2017, all on a little over $2,000 per month.

Help support this website by Donating or Subscribing! (Updated)

Main Menu

I'm so confused about who I am (ftm? or not ftm?)

Started by KitYan94, April 20, 2015, 05:51:42 AM

Previous topic - Next topic

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

KitYan94

Hi!! I'm Kityan, I'm 18 years old and I'm french.

The problem is I'm confused about my gender.

I tell a little bit of my life :

When I was in kindergarten, I used to be best friend with a girl but I think the only thing in common between us is that I love drawing but I didn't like playing with dolls.

In primary school, I became friends with guys and played football with them. I was always around guys and didn't have a problem hanging out with them (thank god!!! :angel:). I was super friends with them and I liked it  ;D
But I didn't like playing with girls : I was more like a protector against boys. The last time I wear a skirt was in third year and a dress was when I was 7 years old.
At the end of primary school, I started talking with girls but we didn't played things too girly because we have a new director and he didn't allow us to play football.

In middle school, I felt alone and I closed myself. I have a few friends who were girls but not boys. At second year, I found myself in a group of friends who were boys and girls, my best friend was a guy. In third year and fourth year, I found myself in a group of friends too but they were all girls.
At 14, I began bodybulding and it was weird. I begin to question myself : why I am so weird ? because the way I think was like a boy!!

In high school, I closed myself even more because it's far away and I don't have any friend that I know in there, I felt discriminated in there. In second year, I was in a group of female friends, but I didn't like the way they criticized people outside and inside the group : we have a lot of tension in the groupe. I felt that I don't belong in there but I have no choice. In third year, it was the best year : still in a group friend but they are kind of understand me the way I am.

In college, I found a closed friend and I'm still friend with those in hight school.

______________________________________________________________________________________________

So now in my life, I still don't like pink, girly things like dressing like a girl or doing make-up. Even before some friends of mine tried to do make-up in my face or dressed up like a girl and I beg them not to do it but I let them do it for fun. Normally I wear clothes that can be wear by boys and girls because I don't fell confortable in woman dress.
I like video games, dc comic's books, electronics, martial arts.

I confused because I don't know if I will be a girl or a boy in the future.
Before I never considerated being trans because I don't have a lot of approch of it : I know homosexuality but transsexuality was new for me.
It just a few days before when I watch a chinese show of a transwoman, that I respect because she assume the way she is, that I want to know a little bit more about her life and I fell like her.
Since that day I fell confused of should I be a girl or a boy because I always considerated myself as a boy mind in a girl body but I don't know if there are still a bit of girl in me.
I also concerned about my sexual orientation.  :-\
  •  

FTMax

I think a good exercise to try is picturing yourself 5 or 10 years down the road. Who do you see? Who do you want to be?

A friendly therapist would be a good idea to help you work through your feelings.
T: 12/5/2014 | Top: 4/21/2015 | Hysto: 2/6/2016 | Meta: 3/21/2017

I don't come here anymore, so if you need to get in touch send an email: maxdoeswork AT protonmail.com
  •  

adrian

Hey,

welcome to Susan's :).

First off: it's normal to feel confused. I can totally relate. In some ways I am/was very similar to what you describe until I seriously started questioning my gender a year ago (I'm 39 now, so waaay older ;)). I always felt I wasn't a girl. And when other girls/women said about themselves "Im not a girly girl either" I still felt I was different. But for me it was easier initially to define what I was not (a woman) and did not like (girly stuff, make-up, boobs...) before coming to the conclusion that I'm trans* and identify as male. It's a process that can take time and you shouldn't rush it. And remember that gender is a spectrum. It's not just male/female and if someone tells you you have to pick either one of the other, don't listen to them!
  •  

KitYan94

Quote from: ftmax on April 20, 2015, 07:57:41 AM
I think a good exercise to try is picturing yourself 5 or 10 years down the road. Who do you see? Who do you want to be?

A friendly therapist would be a good idea to help you work through your feelings.

Hi!!  ;D ftmax, glad you could anwser me.
I think in those past years, I never see myself completely as a girl nor a boy.
I never questionned my gender until now but I always describe myself as a boy mind in a girl body.
I have a weird dream last year : I dream I have a penis!!  ???*

I think when I was in primary school, I fell more being a transgender : is that normal ? but now I don't know if I am still a transgender because society forces us to be the way you are born with to fit in it.
  •  

KitYan94

Quote from: adrian on April 20, 2015, 09:14:11 AM
Hey,

welcome to Susan's :).

First off: it's normal to feel confused. I can totally relate. In some ways I am/was very similar to what you describe until I seriously started questioning my gender a year ago (I'm 39 now, so waaay older ;)). I always felt I wasn't a girl. And when other girls/women said about themselves "Im not a girly girl either" I still felt I was different. But for me it was easier initially to define what I was not (a woman) and did not like (girly stuff, make-up, boobs...) before coming to the conclusion that I'm trans* and identify as male. It's a process that can take time and you shouldn't rush it. And remember that gender is a spectrum. It's not just male/female and if someone tells you you have to pick either one of the other, don't listen to them!

Hi!! ;D Adrian
Thank you that you understand me!  :D
I don't think it's too old  :P
What do you mean by different compare to others girls who aren't a girly girl?  ???
I fell the same about what I wasn't and what I didn't like : when puberty starts at 9, it was a choc to me, it made me fell inconfortable bacause when we are going to the swimming pool, I was to scare to tell the teacher that I have menstruation so I have to tell a friend to tell him.
So should I'll be transsexual or not?
  •  

adrian

Quote from: KitYan94 on April 20, 2015, 03:55:50 PM
Hi!! ;D Adrian
Thank you that you understand me!  :D
I don't think it's too old  [emoji14]
What do you mean by different compare to others girls who aren't a girly girl?  ???
I fell the same about what I wasn't and what I didn't like : when puberty starts at 9, it was a choc to me, it made me fell inconfortable bacause when we are going to the swimming pool, I was to scare to tell the teacher that I have menstruation so I have to tell a friend to tell him.
So should I'll be transsexual or not?

Hey :)
What I meant was: I even felt different from (cis) women who aren't "girly girls" -- like I felt even less female than I thought they must feel, but it never occurred to me that this might mean I'm trans*.

Nobody but yourself can say what your gender is, and if it matches the gender you were assigned at birth. But I must say from what you wrote it sounds as if you could be transgendered. I'd suggest you continue to read and write here, there are many folks here with similar experience. We understand how it feels!
  •  

KitYan94

Quote from: adrian on April 21, 2015, 12:27:04 AM
Hey :)
What I meant was: I even felt different from (cis) women who aren't "girly girls" -- like I felt even less female than I thought they must feel, but it never occurred to me that this might mean I'm trans*.

Nobody but yourself can say what your gender is, and if it matches the gender you were assigned at birth. But I must say from what you wrote it sounds as if you could be transgendered. I'd suggest you continue to read and write here, there are many folks here with similar experience. We understand how it feels!

Ok so I'm transgenred. Thank you !!  :angel:

But what about sexual orientation ?
  •  

Atypical

No no no.

You're confusing your gender identity with gender roles. How you dress, who you hang out with, your hobbies? Those have absolutely nothing to do with whether you're male or female.

Plenty of men like feminine things, and plenty of women like masculine things. It's also entirely normal for ciswomen to dream about having penises-- there's an entire nich of psychology around it.

These things don't mean anything other than you're a normal human being.

What defines you as trans is much more complex and yet, much more simple. Are you comfortable being called a girl, with all the gender role stuff aside? Are you comfortable with your body parts?

For me, that's all it takes to know my gender. My body is supposed to be male. So are my pronouns. And that's what makes me a guy.
  •  

mac1

Quote from: KitYan94 on April 20, 2015, 03:37:51 PM
.......................I have a weird dream last year : I dream I have a penis!!  ???*.......................

It is possible to be a guy and not have a penis. Most people will never notice.
  •  

KitYan94

Quote from: Atypical on April 21, 2015, 03:18:32 PM
No no no.

You're confusing your gender identity with gender roles. How you dress, who you hang out with, your hobbies? Those have absolutely nothing to do with whether you're male or female.

Plenty of men like feminine things, and plenty of women like masculine things. It's also entirely normal for ciswomen to dream about having penises-- there's an entire nich of psychology around it.

These things don't mean anything other than you're a normal human being.

What defines you as trans is much more complex and yet, much more simple. Are you comfortable being called a girl, with all the gender role stuff aside? Are you comfortable with your body parts?

For me, that's all it takes to know my gender. My body is supposed to be male. So are my pronouns. And that's what makes me a guy.

Ok !!  :laugh:
For the first question :
Not really because of gender role, I fell like a boy in a girl body. Nobody called me a girl or a boy!!! So can't tell you  :P
I know people who called me weird, and it made me confortable because the way I fell myself was so different from the others.

For the second question :
When I was a kid and puberty started, I really don't like it, it was hell !!!
I mean when boobs are growing, I was like : I have to hide it and when there was the menstruation, I was so ashamed of myself.
Confortable or not, I don't know  :-\
For the boobs, I tried to hide it when I wear pajamas because I don't like showing them, but when I'm outside, I wear a bra for not getting attention on me, and I don't like wear a bra, I don't fell confortable and it hurts!
For the mentruation, it was hell in primary school, I was so scared because it was a shock. I don't like having blood coming out, I struggle every time I have them ans wish they don't come back.

I always ask my mum if I was supposed to be a boy and then turned into a girl during her 9 months of pregnancy
  •  

KitYan94

Quote from: mac1 on April 21, 2015, 05:19:04 PM
It is possible to be a guy and not have a penis. Most people will never notice.

Yeah I know  ;D but it was weird to dream about a penis!!  :laugh:
  •  

mac1

Quote from: mac1 on April 21, 2015, 05:19:04 PM
It is possible to be a guy and not have a penis. Most people will never notice.
Quote from: KitYan94 on April 22, 2015, 06:24:30 AM
Yeah I know  ;D but it was weird to dream about a penis!!  :laugh:

I sometimes dream about being a woman down there; it is really exciting for me.
  •  

KitYan94

Quote from: mac1 on April 22, 2015, 08:14:35 AM
I sometimes dream about being a woman down there; it is really exciting for me.

Yeah me too!!  :laugh:
I was like : I sooo wish it was true!  :P
  •  

adrian

Hey,

Yeah, what about sexual orientation? :D

If you feel you would like to put a label on yourself, pick one that you're comfortable with :). I'm a gay trans guy.
  •  

KitYan94

Quote from: adrian on April 22, 2015, 11:16:35 AM
Hey,

Yeah, what about sexual orientation? :D

If you feel you would like to put a label on yourself, pick one that you're comfortable with :). I'm a gay trans guy.

:P I don't even know : I never have a crunch on guy or girl!
  •  

mac1

Quote from: KitYan94 on April 22, 2015, 10:29:39 AM
Yeah me too!!  :laugh:
I was like : I sooo wish it was true!  :P

That would be really wonderful.  ::)  :angel:
  •