I don't want to forget my past, good and bad and the journey i have been on. I'm the same person that I have always been, i just changed my expression to reflect what i was inside. The name change and all of that is part of that.

I answered no.

I have felt like a woman ever since I can remember. To me the mental is more important than the physical. I feel I was born female with a physical birth defect that medical science has now corrected.

For me transitioning has always been a journey with an end goal. I have reached that goal, I'm still working on some refinements but I consider myself a woman and will leave the transgender label behind as much as possible.

I don't see myself as trans. In fact at certain times my brain even forgets I am trans altogether, and "tricks" me into thinking I was born a cis woman. But viewing myself as the latter is usually extremely damaging to my mental health, as I incur intense dysphoria upon the realization I am not cis, if that makes sense.

That is why I feel it is important to not forget your past. For me personally I believe it is much healthier to view myself as a trans woman. It is an identity I am building on and know will be better for me to classify myself as in the long run.

Ive just lived too long presenting male to forget or ignore that chunk of my life even though the undertow of all those years was the yearning to present female.

Interesting thoughts.  I am a woman.  I am also trans, but the transition is losing importance as time passes.  It surprises me how quickly the inconceivable becomes mundane.  Two months after GRS and changing in the shared locker room at work is normal. 
I've lived my truth for years.  Now it seems that truth is just ho hum.  I'm still having some minor discharge and borrowed a panty liner yesterday and used it at once.  Imagine that a few months ago.
But I'm still trans, it is just that very few people remember that this was once important.   Kind of a comfortable result.
Peace
JB

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I think I would say no. I look at being a Trans women as just that, transitioning into becoming a women. Once the journey is complete I will no longer be transitioning into a women I will be a women for the rest of my time on this blue planet.

Huggs Niki Marie

Is it possible we're answering two different questions?

One group says, "Our femininity is real/legit/innate."

The other says, "So is the journey."

I think these ideas are compatible.

It is not the goal for me to go through everything and be seen as a person who transitioned. The goal is not for that to be seen or felt. The past is gone; only the present matters.

I would say that I wouldn't think about as much but still would have to contend with being trans. 

I'm just me really. I see transitioning more of a clinical procedure to correct something much like any other clinical procedure does. Once everything's sorted I'll always have a history but how I relate to that past is hard for me to say. Life is a transition from birth to death all the stuff in between is what makes us who we are.

Peace and love and all that good stuff,

Sadie

I have always been female. 

It was in transition (a ritual of temporary duration) that I came to believe that, and through transsexing that I came to know it absolutely to be true.   So, no, I don't carry the trans label as part of my essential identity.  I privilege my core truth -- I am female -- first and foremost. 

That doesn't mean I deny the journey; as rmaddy points out, the ideas are compatible.  Well, to an extent.  They're compatible in certain ritual spaces, like these boards (and so it's here and with a couple of very dear friends with similar experience that I give space to the journey if I ever need to talk about it).  They are not, in general, in my opinion, terribly compatible in the mundane world, at least in America. 

I don't put myself in that label.  But more power to you if that isn't the case.

Quote from: Chenji on May 17, 2017, 08:28:49 AM
I don't put myself in that label.  But more power to you if that isn't the case.

  Hi    Chenji,

  I see that you are new here, I'm Laurie. Welcomes to Susan's Place. I'd like to invite you to jump on over to introductions and create a thread to introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about you so that we can welcome you properly and get to know you.

  Hugs,
   Laurie

No.
Transition is transitory.  I have transitioned to female.  Transgender is not applicable to me now.  I am female inside and out, and on paper in all places of legal record.  I was trans*.  I am female now.  I am not ashamed of where I came from, or what I went thru (transition), but transition is not a permanent status.  It is transitory.

My 0.02¢

Quote from: Charley on May 16, 2017, 12:28:40 PM
I answered no.

I have felt like a woman ever since I can remember. To me the mental is more important than the physical. I feel I was born female with a physical birth defect that medical science has now corrected.

For me transitioning has always been a journey with an end goal. I have reached that goal, I'm still working on some refinements but I consider myself a woman and will leave the transgender label behind as much as possible.

Great post, couldn't put it better myself, I voted no, trans is a transition journey, my journey is complete a long time ago, all the surgeries have been done, I'm now all woman, I have a trans history but I'm now a WOMAN!

Quote from: JB_Girl on May 16, 2017, 05:16:19 PM
but the transition is losing importance as time passes.  It surprises me how quickly the inconceivable becomes mundane. 

Transition just drifts into the past and into history, life can become ''mundane'' the normality of it all, but very normal woman's life, going to women's groups, socialising and just being 1 of the girls, and being a wife to my husband, I never think about being trans, all in the past.

Quote from: Cimara on May 15, 2017, 10:34:12 PM
I will always consider myself trans. When I first transitioned I absolutely hated the term transgender. For me it felt like a hateful slur and being referred to as transgender highly offended me. My parents even stopped using the word transgender around me. They would say "my situation".  When I was 16 my mother told me something that has stuck with me. And it is true of every transwoman. She said:  "being transgender does not make you less female than biological women. It makes you more female because you were willing to endure so much to get there "

^^ Totally this.

Has been almost a decade since I began HRT/etc and nowadays I feel more comfortable than ever with my "transness". To me being trans is that I was just born assigned the wrong way, that simple.

Quote from: pretty pauline on May 17, 2017, 10:49:28 AM
...I never think about being trans, all in the past.

Please help me understand what you mean by this.  The fact that you are posting on a transgender board seems to indicate at least some ongoing thought about being trans.

I am a woman first and foremost that just so happens to be trans... But I am proud to be in such a great and open community fwiw <3

I am trans but that doesnt mean im not a woman.

Quote from: SailorMars1994 on May 17, 2017, 07:11:51 PM
I am a woman first and foremost that just so happens to be trans... But I am proud to be in such a great and open community fwiw <3

Its pretty much that for me to.

No, I see myself as a woman. I completed my transition, therefore I am a woman.