I am a Woman. nature played a cruel trick on me at conception leaving me in a male body. 
I will, I must, I am going to persist until this is rectified. With the help and support of those like me.

love you all so much.

Simone.

Quote from: MissTina on December 13, 2010, 05:10:37 PM
I think that much of my hurt and confusion both in the past and currently has stemmed from me trying to convince myself that I really WAS what the accident of my flesh told everyone around me that I am. Once I just accepted that I AM female, and not someone who "wanted" to be female, my hurt got a bit [lot] less. It helped me, at least, to realize that what I really wanted is for me to match inside and out. If that makes sense.

Amen, sister.

*hugs*
Kate

Quote from: lucaluca on December 13, 2010, 11:38:36 AM
hmm... what i am thinking of is, how do you know that you are a female in the wrong body, so that you could say "i am a woman, but sadly with the body of a man". how do you know it?

I didn't know it. However, I strongly suspected it.
Living as a woman was test that verified for me that the female paradigm fit much better than the male one. If the test had failed, then I would have gone back to my assigned birth gender.
Having a rational approach is important, I think.

Quote from: CaitJ on December 13, 2010, 11:21:55 PM
I didn't know it. However, I strongly suspected it.
Living as a woman was test that verified for me that the female paradigm fit much better than the male one. If the test had failed, then I would have gone back to my assigned birth gender.
Having a rational approach is important, I think.

This is a good point.  In the beginning I knew only that I had always thought I should be a woman and that I had trouble living as a man.  Transition was an experiment, to see if living as a woman would suit me better.  In the beginning I did only those things I could undo if need-be and return to trying to live as a man.

As the experiment progressed, I found that living as a woman suited me so well that I knew I could never go back.  Living as a woman was a real pleasure and for the first time I could just relax and be me, not worrying about how I presented myself.  My biggest fear was that I would be forced back to living as a man.

When I had GRS, the effects on my feelings and how I thought were so profound that I was at last certain that I am and have always been a woman, regardless of my birth anatomy.

So it was, to paraphrase the Little Engine That Could: I think I am, I think I can, I am I am I am.

- Kate

Kate --

love that paraphrase!!!

hugs,

--Tina

Well said Tamaki,

QuoteI just know that mentally, emotionally and spiritually I'm not male. So I'm moving away from being male and hope that other women can see me as something other than male and treat me more like one of their own.

And Marrisak, I related to what you said, "I fit better on the female side of the world".

Still, feeling this way and looking in the mirror and seeing a male face is confusing.

Kendall

I am a girl and I want the world to see me as who I am and not this shell ...

I am tired of being a girl trapped in a guy and am more happier than I have ever been since I have stopped trying to  be "normal" and accepted that I am not a guy trying/wanting to be a woman but girl stuck in a guy's body and wanting to change my body to that of a woman to match who I am on the inside....