I don't know , but I think if we all could just embrace being trans , eventually we would just be seen as any other woman by society. The trans thing will just turn into one of those words that people rarely use .

Well, I picked 4.  I am not too sure how much I accept me for me.  If I were really sure I would just go full time.  That is saying rather a lot as four years ago I didn't even know what transgender was let alone that I was.

Erin

I put a 3, for the most part I am fine with it but there's definitely ebbs and flows!  Lately, mostly flowing.
Paula

I am trans and I have transitioned.  Can't get any more accepting than that I guess.....

1. Fully accept it because I 100% didn't accept being born male.

Now if the question was how do you accept NOT being born a woman well that would be different

1 I am incredibly thankful for being trans.

I am very happy and thankful to be given the opportunity to be  on the front-line changing hearts and minds towards trans people across the world making it a safer place for trans people.

I love teaching others about trans people who ask helping them understand trans people these include: Police Officers, Doctors, Nurses, Hate group members, Christians and many others.

I have caused people to leave hate groups going from hating us to loving us.

I went changing hearts and minds while in Alabama US last getting 5 people to go from disliking trans people to loving us. I fear nothing if its my time I go out happy knowing I am doing the right thing knowing I am choosing the highest calling. You can kill me but you can not kill a idea the idea of love for all.

I am racking up a large count of people who I have helped change their view point on trans people from disliking us or very hateful to absolutely loving trans people who then go on to help fight for trans rights despite being cis.

I am so grateful to be given the opportunity to change the world for the better to make it a more loving place for the T community.

I am so looking forward to 2017 when I can move to the US where I can work very hard improving lives for trans people and improving the quality of life for the T community and create job opportunities for the T community and help bring down the struggle for the T community making the T community happier.

Yes, I accepted it the moment I figured it out.

There's nothing to be gained spiritually from hiding from the truth. Whether you tell other people and what they think is a different matter but my reasoning was always that if something is a problem, you work around it until it isn't anymore. That's how I dealt with anxiety, shyness, problems talking to people in the past and now this.

If there is some other way to deal with it by not accepting it, I doubt I'd be able to do it.

I'm not happy I had to deal with this burden, but there just seems no point pretending it's not there.

I've totally accepted being a transgender woman. I would hope so since I'm post-op.
What I'm working on now, is to stop wondering why.

Quote from: stephaniec on December 23, 2016, 04:29:42 PM
I don't know , but I think if we all could just embrace being trans , eventually we would just be seen as any other woman by society. The trans thing will just turn into one of those words that people rarely use .

People are still put in prison for it in other parts of the world. I don't think it will ever change until there is legit widely known proof that the brain is physically and neurologically different. And Christianity falls in favor. And there is medical procedures to chemically change the DNA, and the make the body identical to a woman... *and even then...*

Accept it... no. I've tried. For years I've tried. But the self I see behind my eyes, in my dreams, in every fibre of my being has a... realism I can never hope to attain in a way that would satisfy me. And I can't accept that. Within my soul I can't accept that. As much as I wish I could. It's one of my biggest failings, and a source of much anguish.

Deal with it... yes. Because I have to. Because life goes on. I wish I were a stronger person, to feel more at ease. But sadly I am not. All we can do is be as true to ourselves as we can be. Even when, at times, that doesn't feel like enough. Especially when it doesn't feel like enough.

Maybe one day I will reach a place where I can feel better about it, but in spite of everything, I am not there yet. I envy those who are.

Sephirah kinda echo'd my thoughts, I've acknowledged that I am transgender, that the only way I'll ever have a chance at any semblance of quality of life is to transition but I do not now or ever think I'll ever accept/like the fact that I'm trans. Lost out on a proper childhood, have a body/bones that are waaay large for a girl, forever have a empty hole inside of my stomach that in my lifetime will probably never be filled, have to undergo many extremely painful treatments to remove male traits that never should have been there in the first place, have to be the target of extreme hatred by many in the world and so much more all because of a birth defect that was completely out of my control. There really is only 3 choices I've ever had 1) Live as a "guy" which impossible because I've never been one and pretending to be one and hiding my true self is the ultimate form of torture and if I didn't start hormones when I did early this year I doubt I'd be here typing this as I couldn't take it anymore. 2) Suicide.... I've tried many times throughout my life but in all my thankfully unsuccessful attempts I've learned that the only thing I fear more then never getting accepted/being able to be me is dying and truly never getting a chance to be myself. I'd like to think theres some heaven or reincarnation or something where I'll get "rewarded" or something for everything I've been through but I just don't know and I just don't want to die never getting to be myself... even thinking about it makes my hard feel squeezed.... 3) Transition/what I'm doing now. Certainly far from perfect and many limitations but it's really the only option I have.

Of course the above only applies to myself as I know there are quite a few people here happy being trans and I'm very happy for you! Just for me though I don't think I'll ever be happy with my situation, a permanent asterisk reminding me that I'm always different, it's just unfair and nothing I can ever do to rewrite the past =/

Does anybody remember this one from the classic prayers greatest hits collection?

"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."

Quote from: Jane Emily on December 25, 2016, 11:47:23 AM
Does anybody remember this one from the classic prayers greatest hits collection?

"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."

That's almost it.

QuoteI find within myself the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Each of us holds the key within ourselves.  When the time is right, we will unlock our inner serenity, courage, and wisdom.

In that sense, I fully accept being transgender. 


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That's nice. I like it.

I fully accept that I am the 3rd gender. I'm proud to be that. So 1.

Quote from: Sephirah on December 25, 2016, 01:09:05 AM
Accept it... no. I've tried. For years I've tried. But the self I see behind my eyes, in my dreams, in every fibre of my being has a... realism I can never hope to attain in a way that would satisfy me. And I can't accept that. Within my soul I can't accept that. As much as I wish I could. It's one of my biggest failings, and a source of much anguish.

Deal with it... yes. Because I have to. Because life goes on. I wish I were a stronger person, to feel more at ease. But sadly I am not. All we can do is be as true to ourselves as we can be. Even when, at times, that doesn't feel like enough. Especially when it doesn't feel like enough.

Maybe one day I will reach a place where I can feel better about it, but in spite of everything, I am not there yet. I envy those who are.

+ 1. Exactly, all that! Couldn't have said it better.

¡¡¡ UNO !!! One! Not a second of hesitation.

I know that there are tremendous benefits to us individually, and to society in general for us being the way we are and doing the things we do. I don't know what all those benefits are. Yet. But I am wildly eager to learn more as this story of human evolution unfolds around us and within us.

Love, Miharu

I feel I'm about a 5. I say 5 because I've come to terms with being trans, but obviously if I could have been born cis, naturally I'd take that over having to go through a transition. And 5 also because I'm stealth but I know that I'm not 100% stealth because I told some ex boyfriends and old friends. So at any possibility, I know that me being "stealth" could be ripped away from me at any moment and I'm fine with that.  I recently had srs and I'm the happiest I've even been in my life and I cherish life now more than ever

10

I am almost a 1, but still trying to figure it out.  I always felt female but never knew why well recently found out; after 25 doctors, several surgeries they reluctantly told me I have a form of moasic Kleinfelters syndrome with partial androgen sensativity from prenatal exposure to DES. I developed severe osteoporosis and only hope to slow it was estrogen.  Fast forward three years the osteoporosis has been reversed but not the damage it did and yes I got the dreaded side effects lol. I love the new me but sadly I'm still under the radar for sake of family, business and especially health insurance but maybe 2017 will see changes since my doctors have said I will need to stay on estrogen for life. PLEASE any girls born between 1940-1972 please get a bone density test especially if not on HRT because second puberty is tough without going thru it disabled. hope everyone has a HAPPY 2017, thank you all.