I Was Transgender And Didn't Know It: 6 Weird Realities
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By Robert Evans,  Christina Hitchens June 14, 2015 | via cracked.com

Society is slowly waking up to the idea that transgender people exist as something other than a fetish or punchline in a Hollywood sex comedy. When Caitlyn (formerly Bruce) Jenner came out recently, America's reaction was no doubt less terrible than it would have been 20 years ago.

But the question lots of people ask is, "How in the world someone like Jenner can reach that age and then suddenly 'decide' they're a woman?" Well, the answer is that it's not that simple. We talked to a trans woman who didn't make the transition until well into adulthood, and once again found out that society does not make it @#$%ing easy.

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This is a pretty good primer article for anyone going through transition in their adult years...

Quote from: Ms Grace on June 14, 2015, 08:05:53 AM
I Was Transgender And Didn't Know It: 6 Weird Realities
cracked.com/personal-experiences-1756-i-was-transgender-didnt-know-it-6-weird-realities.html
By Robert Evans,  Christina Hitchens June 14, 2015 | via cracked.com

Society is slowly waking up to the idea that transgender people exist as something other than a fetish or punchline in a Hollywood sex comedy. When Caitlyn (formerly Bruce) Jenner came out recently, America's reaction was no doubt less terrible than it would have been 20 years ago.

But the question lots of people ask is, "How in the world someone like Jenner can reach that age and then suddenly 'decide' they're a woman?" Well, the answer is that it's not that simple. We talked to a trans woman who didn't make the transition until well into adulthood, and once again found out that society does not make it @#$%ing easy.

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This is a pretty good primer article for anyone going through transition in their adult years...

Wow. Amazing article. Thanks for posting, Grace.

Thank you very much for this article it really does hit home for me. Somewhat of a clarity if you will. Almost got me to tears thank you.

Quote from: Ms Grace on June 14, 2015, 08:05:53 AM
I Was Transgender And Didn't Know It: 6 Weird Realities
cracked.com/personal-experiences-1756-i-was-transgender-didnt-know-it-6-weird-realities.html
By Robert Evans,  Christina Hitchens June 14, 2015 | via cracked.com

Society is slowly waking up to the idea that transgender people exist as something other than a fetish or punchline in a Hollywood sex comedy. When Caitlyn (formerly Bruce) Jenner came out recently, America's reaction was no doubt less terrible than it would have been 20 years ago.

But the question lots of people ask is, "How in the world someone like Jenner can reach that age and then suddenly 'decide' they're a woman?" Well, the answer is that it's not that simple. We talked to a trans woman who didn't make the transition until well into adulthood, and once again found out that society does not make it @#$%ing easy.

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This is a pretty good primer article for anyone going through transition in their adult years...

Jenner spent 4 million dollars on her transition??? What beyond the usual transitioning stuff did she do that would cost 4 million?  I'm not being sarcastic, I really want to know.  I wouldn't have thought it possible to spend that much on transitioning.

Just a guess on the 4 million and ya that is a lot is that well she has money and no cost is under budget. So she has the option to hire the most expensive surgeons and in L.A. no less and there goes the price way up. Do agree it still sounds out of whack but perhaps some of that is bribe money in the sense get a rush job please here is $$$.

Quote from: Amy1988 on June 14, 2015, 06:00:51 PM
Jenner spent 4 million dollars on her transition??? What beyond the usual transitioning stuff did she do that would cost 4 million?  I'm not being sarcastic, I really want to know.  I wouldn't have thought it possible to spend that much on transitioning.

I'd say it's a case of using the most expensive health care available.

Please let's not make discussion in this thread about Jenner, let's keep it to the article itself.

That article resonated with me but I was even more clueless than she was. Heck, I didn't even experiment with wearing women's garments of any kind until I was in my mid 40s! I didn't know why I was different, I only knew that I was different and that I didn't fit in with the guys.

I know exactly what she meant about our motivations to hang around girls (wanting to be them) but again I didn't know why I liked to hang around them - they were always an enigma to me, and dating never quite worked the way it does for most boys because I didn't know that I was approaching dating the way a girl does.

I grew up in the mid-southern region of the US, and transgender was a word that simply did not exist there. I was born in 1962 so I didn't have access to information that might have given me a clue. I lived in an information vacuum bubble for 40+ years.

It was gender dysphoria descending on me like a hammer in my 40's that compelled me to figure it out.

What Eva Marie said, except more so. I grew up in Michigan which is basically Florida with snow. Same rigid attitudes. And in the 60s with no internet? I didn't know what a Jew was until I was 14, never mind a gay or trans person. Despite moving to New York City when I turned 18 I still never thought about it. At least the person in the article is a straight transwoman. She had her attitudes about sex to clue her in. I'm a translesbian. I would have thought I was a straight male had I ever thought about it at all. To be honest I almost never thought about myself. I thought about attitudes and beliefs, things external to me. So yeah the article is about as good as a six page article has any right to be. I think it may put a bug in the ear of some transwoman and men who are about as clueless as I was, but it may easily miss the lesbian transwoman entirely.

A most excellent read.
It's a bit weird though to read what somebody else wrote that is straight out of your head and your life too, other than the drugs and having living parents to be disturbed at me.