In response to Goldy's thread about being a bioguy. Thought we should have our own.

Me - tits.

1) a horrifying fear of pregnancy, illness in my female parts, menopause, etc.  it just doesn't seem part of me at all. and i never get anything checked on.

2) not having facial hair. i don't want to grow it, just want to feel stubble. i try to get it by shaving, doesn't happen...tell your female friends who are skittish about razoring their fuzz...it doesn't grow back thicker OR darker. (or maybe it's my native american, no facial hair genes! durnnit!)

3) when talking to someone i don't know at work, my voice gets all high and mousey... just happens when i'm trying to be accomadating. i can't control it.

i don't know if i'd ever want to go through operations but i do often really really want the hormones so i could shave my face and all.  otherwise i do all i can on my own to change things.  feels more like i'm walking around dressing up or being an actor 24 hours though.

Before T, I'd have said the same things - voice, period, tits. Now, it's just that my parts don't match and it leads to awkward situations, like bathrooms and change rooms. I always have that extra bit of stress.

Dennis

1. the monthly illness
2. chest
3. height/weight
4. voice
5. people trying to squeeze me into a certain social role
6. being treated as one expected to conform to that role
7. increasingly bothersome bottom dysphoria
8. feminine endearments

I could go on and on but I shan't.

Before T and Still now :-

Tits
Period
The contant reminder I dont have a penis
The fact I personally wont be able to have kids.
My weight/height.
My hands
My smile

I could go on and on and on and on...

Mostly just that it doesn't feel right. I don't hate anything about the female body or the female gender role. It just doesn't feel like me. It sucks not having my boy parts.

Uh...   let me think...

I hate having to pack to swim.  I hate making an impromptu overnight at my lady's place only to remember later that i didn't bring supplies to do my shot.  I hate those weird situations where my old name is still on random records. 

Packing isn't the thing I hate. The packer helps me. It's the fact that if I'm in the mood to have sex, I have to two cartwheels and sing the National Anthem before I'm ready to even get started. I've gotta make a girl wait because I don't have the proper tools.

...O CANADA

Tits/period/voice. Being stuck on the wrong side of chivalry.

What I hate most is nothing physical.

I hate that I must constantly prove over and over that I am just as good, and in some cases better, than any male at what I do (I work in IT, currently tier 2 server support. ) That my boobs and/or gender are not an intelligence indicator.

Physical stuff is much easier to fix.

WR

Just having the female body. Period, breasts, femenine voice, and when I get angry I act angry in a girly way which is uncontrollable for me. My parents raised me as a girl all my life and since it's not even been a year since I started identifying as male it's still hard to me to really act male. And that just because I have a female body that I should act like an average female. It's hard for me to even socialize because I know anyone I talk to sees me as female. It sucks

Quote from: Nero on November 20, 2008, 07:07:45 AM
In response to Goldy's thread about being a bioguy. Thought we should have our own.

Me - tits.

My soon to be 17-year-old daughter has said pretty much the same thing. But, that's about the extent of what she's mentioned thus far. I don't know how dysphoric she is in that regard. But she's mentioned numerous times she'd like to be rid of her breasts.

Who knows; I might have a TG daughter, though it still seems too early to tell.

My sister, even as a "natural" female, wishes she did not have (large) boobs.  They get in the way of all sorts of things, such as exercising.

Quote from: kephalopod on November 20, 2008, 04:22:01 PMBeing stuck on the wrong side of chivalry.

Is there a good side to chivarly.  To me, the whole idea of it quaint, and benevolent sexism is still ultimately sexism.  That's not really good for anyone.

It's good for people to do favors for others, but it should be because we care about them as people, not because of the bits attached to them.

before T:
feeling "wrong"
monthlies
and everything below

now:
chest
height
fact i look a decade younger
not a bio-dude

Quote from: Kaelin on November 20, 2008, 08:38:11 PM

Is there a good side to chivarly.  To me, the whole idea of it quaint, and benevolent sexism is still ultimately sexism.  That's not really good for anyone.

It's good for people to do favors for others, but it should be because we care about them as people, not because of the bits attached to them.

I've got to apologize for my wording here. I picked a short facetious quip over a wordier spiel on gender and society when I probably shouldn't have.

I largely agree with your view of chivalry. (The idea that women need special treatment because they are women is inherently sexist.)

What I intended to say is that I find the social role that's been handed to me intensely uncomfortable in all its generalities and particulars.

Quote from: Windrider on November 20, 2008, 04:36:52 PMPhysical stuff is much easier to fix.

I beg to differ. Phalloplasty is not a "fix" for me. I want a transplant, and not only is it expensive, but no doctor in his right mind would do it.

Quote from: Elwood on November 21, 2008, 01:41:48 PM

Quote from: Windrider on November 20, 2008, 04:36:52 PMPhysical stuff is much easier to fix.

I beg to differ. Phalloplasty is not a "fix" for me. I want a transplant, and not only is it expensive, but no doctor in his right mind would do it.

And until the male dominated society accepts that boobs or the lack thereof does not indicate the level of the person's intelligence, my fight will *never* end.

I stand by my original statement.

WR

Quote from: Elwood on November 20, 2008, 02:45:19 PM
Packing isn't the thing I hate. The packer helps me. It's the fact that if I'm in the mood to have sex, I have to two cartwheels and sing the National Anthem before I'm ready to even get started. I've gotta make a girl wait because I don't have the proper tools.

...O CANADA

Its ok, I'd be waiting anyway... : \ (Lol...)

The lumps of doom and the parentals' refusal to let me get my hair cut. That's literally all that's keeping me from passing. Well the boobage can be dealt with, but the hair is the only thing that keeps me looking iffy.

I'm starting to get bothered by my boobs more lately. At first I didn't mind them too much but for the last couple of months I'm getting annoyed by 'em.
And yeah, having a penis would be nice. And facial hair

The rest doesn't bother me too much.