Hello

I happened across Susans by accident.  Serendipitous indeed.
A little about myself.  I had just turned three years old when I told my parents that I wanted to be a girl.  The response was a chuckle from my father, and the words "you can't be".  I asked why not, and he said because I had not been born a girl.  I had not the knowledge to challenge what I now see to be a preposterous statement, but I can also see that it was reasonable and logical for him to say such a thing, in 1953.  This did nothing, of course, to convince me that I could not be a girl.  After bedtime when the house was quiet, I would quietly put on a dress, and experiment, even then, with make up.  I should explain that I had, and indeed still have, two older sisters, being 6 & 7 years older.  It may, or may not, be amazing just how easily items of clothing can go missing in the wash!  I admit that I became a thief, purloining my sisters' clothes and make up.  Of course, they were too large for me, and I suppose I must have looked quite comical, although this was less of a problem as I grew!  But I did not care, I felt like a girl, and that was all that mattered.

Welcome Suzanne.  So, chapter 2?

Susanne, you probably aren't aware of this but the late Christene Jorgensen was just returning to New York frm enmark as a result of a sucessful surgery on herself ! That was the first sucessful trans surgery done at that time . Ms Jorgensen , a headline act was then a pioneer of sort for all of us. I met Ms Jorgensen at Virginia Commonwealth University in 1971. She spoke to the student body at large as to being a transwoman . I was so impressed by her stage pressence ! To this day, I shall never forget what we were able to talk about after her presentation . I only wish she were alive today. She would see that we have made some minimal strides . I only wish we had made leaps such as gay people have !  By the way , welcome , let me know if there is something I can do to help ! Ellen Shaver 

Welcome, Suzanne.  My, you were quite precocious.  I didn't figure out I should be a girl until I was 4.  But then I was a late bloomer.  And we've come a long way since 1953, thankfully.

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Janet

Morning and hank you for the welcome.  Sorry I have taken so long to reply, and I look forward to a mutually fulfilling association.

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Post Merge: July 28, 2009, 08:20:09 PM

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Hi again ...
Now I can't spell, should be thanks, not hanks!

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Post Merge: July 31, 2009, 01:23:43 PM

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Chapter two Arlene?  It is being written.  Hmmm. Sounds a bit threatening - in the sense that a thunderstorm is theatening - no, that's not what I mean either - I think I should stop before the hole I am digging gets any deeper . . .

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Post Merge: July 31, 2009, 02:29:24 PM

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You are quite correct, eshaver, I was, until now, unknowing of Christene Jorgensen.  You were, I think, fortunate not just to have heard such a pioneer talk, but to have met and talked with the lady puts you an a level I could only dream of.  Such an inspiration to those who follow in her metaphorically huge footsteps. A memory to last, and to cherish for, a lifetime.

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Post Merge: July 31, 2009, 03:33:00 PM

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We all, k8, develop at our own pace, and this is how it should be.  We should not try to measure ourselves against others, but be ourselves, and to revel in our uniqueness, and in our transgender, and to pity mere males for not knowing any better.

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Post Merge: July 31, 2009, 04:34:21 PM

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Last, but by no means least, Janet, thank you for your warm welcome.