Kia Ora,

Do you ever enjoy being trans ? What I mean by this is do you find it a good conversation piece, being at times the centre of attention-especially in a trans-friendly environment...

I came 'out' twice, the first when I fully acknowledged my transsexual nature-then after transition and blending into society, I've come out to people that needed to know about my past...

I must admit at times it can be an interesting experience watching the person's face and body language as they take in this information...

However the first outcoming was a somewhat euphoric event, finally free from the cocoon, a new found freedom, I wanted to share this freedom with anybody who would listen, it was a truly euphoric experience... 

Nowadays for the most part I'm in the closet just a run of the mill middle age woman with children, happy and content with life...

I could be wrong but I'm under the impression for some trans-people the shock value of their trans-status is something they rather enjoy and would miss being centre of attention if they were  to go stealth or semi-stealth[like myself]

When the euphoria ends would you miss the lime light ? Or would you welcome it ?

Metta Zenda

I hate being the centre of attention. I wish being trans was just boring and ordinary and then I wouldn't need to be stealth. But it's not so I feel that stealth is my only way to avoid being "the trans girl."

I'm sure people know... But I don't talk about it. I don't care.

But apparently none of the straight guys I knew over the past year had any idea. They were amazed when I told them. Like, "dammmmnnnn hella good job"

Quote from: Sarah7 on November 10, 2011, 12:30:25 AM
I hate being the centre of attention. I wish being trans was just boring and ordinary and then I wouldn't need to be stealth. But it's not so I feel that stealth is my only way to avoid being "the trans girl."

Echo echo echo.  I'm glad that being trans has taught me about aspects of gender and sexuality that would otherwise be a mystery to me (though as a lesbian, I likely wouldn't have been entirely clueless either), but most of the time it's not good or bad, just sort of a hassle, so I stay stealth.