Sarah,
truce.

"We do not see things they way they are, - we see things the way WE are"
And BTW, I have NO issue to apply this also to myself.

Also no need to apologize for me, I beg you! That's just so downright patronizing to the oldest female on the block. Wow, girl, take a deep breath as was suggested.
I'm grown up enough at 65, to know when that is needed. And then I'm quite capable to do it myself.

@Jen,
* I'm waiting to see how that first kiss from a man makes me feel before I say anything about my sexuality. 

... not feeling social pressure to date girls has been one of the huge side-benefits of coming out/starting transition. *

Thanks for that input, it also speaks for me, quite easily :-)

How did Bob Marley sing it? "No woman, no pain..." he he.

That's got something to it, eh
Axelle

I'm just starting a relationship with a woman (I'm off to see her today for the first time since we admitted being into each other ) and she knows I'm transitioning, but I've no idea how this is going to work. On paper, she can relate to me as "becoming a woman", and she's bi, but I suspect the reality will be more challenging for both of us, if we get seriously involved. In my mind, we're starting a lesbian relationship, and in hers? Going to need a lot of talking as well as the "other stuff" .

Funny - I was planning on not being sexually active while I was going through this transition, but as people plan, the gods giggle... when you meet the right person, stuff just starts happening. But I find myself both wanting a man in my life, and at the same time acknowledging that the kind of man I want may not exist. I'm more and more physically attracted to very masculine men, and more and more turned off by those same men's personalities! It's all good - one partner at a time is complex enough.

You can join the line of us lesbians who'd go straight for Sean Connery, then Padma.   Hope you have a great date.

I'm off to see a counsellor this afternoon to get over my fears of being rejected by other women because of the genital difference.  I hadn't planned on socialising until after SRS, but it's just been too bloody lonely for too many years.  Friends are great, but we all need someone special too. Will post if there is anything worthwhile to come out of it.

Karen.

Although my orentation is still pointed toward women, I have found that the what attracts me to people is  has  changed, these days I am more attracted to a person's personalty and how nice they are , rather then attraction based on appearance. Although it is still that way, based on looks , personalty plays a part in it to. this started to change to be more like this, once I started taking hormones a little over a year ago,  I feel what it is the Estrogen is changing the way my brain is wired and my feels toward people are now much more complex, as I feel my brain is getting a lot more female. I don't always understand all of my feelings and why I have them, I just accept that it is because I am a woman and I am still relativityly young.

Quotethese days I am more attracted to a person's personalty and how nice they are , rather then attraction based on appearance.

Me too. Appearance could turn me on before hrt but now it's just a ho hum with out a good personalty.

Honestly I don't think HRT changed my sexual orientation that much apart from making me feel  more at ease with my sexuality. Always been attracted to strong women but for me it's all about being wanted, that sounds awful I know. Never, ever have I made the first move. I just like the way women look and the way their minds work, virtually all my friends are women and I feel unease around men although I've been with a couple who at the time I was hopelessly in love with. Is that denial or is it just that I can't live with them because they infuriate me and so end up in relationships with women?