Laurry, Maybe the femenine gestures were always there as you say. Once you became aware it became second nature. Or maybe trying too hard would make a person more selfconcious and it would be more difficult to act and react in a femenine way.

After I got over, what's wrong with me and the tried to find a label that fit I realized my life was passing me by. I had an epithany that this is it, one life one chance, I realized and understood that the most powerful thing I could be was to be myself and not try to live up to anyone else's expectations.
I live as I want and no longer feel the need to be accepted (by anyone).
I always had some feminine mannerisms that I tried to supress. I guess now I just don't care. This is me, take it or leave it Some maleness still surfaces, the need to protect my loved ones, be the supporter but they are minor and at this point uncontrollable. I finally love myself and through that can be more loving and understanding.

hi... For me now what i see is a woman with a male back ground . . not the other way round & its taken a while to get to that point . accepting my self  body wise i did .   yet allways there was .  have some extra bits just not quite right . yet over all quite happy . till 11 years ago  when the woman was going to come out .
  Being wired both ways . has all ways been there just not working in all deptments yet was trying to . now yes there have been changes & will be .   after 4 years on h r t ... yes its been neat .. & yes the wireing is working as changes are gooing on . the male if you like is being closed down not every thing just some things .... as that gets changed over . yet still retaining a balance of both .
      i am more than happy how things are going ...mind you now i can express my self as a women . like many have said  we should be able to be our selfs no matter who we are & having acceptance is neat ..   yea its neat .
         ...noeleena...

I've always been different always new I was different I now understand why and don't want to hide the trueth but are told off for being weird