QuoteI'm grateful for the never-quite-man who got me safely to this ferry point, and I welcome up the newly awakened woman who was so sure of being not welcome that she slept for all those decades.

Hi Padma, I have to say I have read this part of your post over and over,,it says so much. It really summarizes the whole idea of transitioning when you really think about it?

I've been writing to a friend trying to explain what's going on for me, and I was struggling for a way to convey it, but it's somehow easier when I tell it like a fairy tale. So I wrote this:

It's as though the man in me was always just acting as a steward, or a regent - and now the queen has awoken, he can stand down and retire, and she can assume sovereignty of my body. And here I am, the awakened queen, and I'm wandering around this castle I've never properly lived in before, saying "Is this really all mine now?"

Quote from: Staci3336 on April 02, 2011, 09:07:52 AM
Hi Padma, I have to say I have read this part of your post over and over,,it says so much. It really summarizes the whole idea of transitioning when you really think about it?

I saw myself as a war machine, when I've always been much much more