I know quite a lot of fabulous, amazing femme transguys. In fact, I know more femme or genderqueer transguys than "butch" or binary ones, which makes me feel a bit lonely sometimes. I'm the only one in my circle who doesn't like glitter. It's not uncommon or weird, and it doesn't invalidate your identity.

Quote from: therewolf on January 15, 2012, 03:39:33 PM
I know quite a lot of fabulous, amazing femme transguys. In fact, I know more femme or genderqueer transguys than "butch" or binary ones, which makes me feel a bit lonely sometimes. I'm the only one in my circle who doesn't like glitter. It's not uncommon or weird, and it doesn't invalidate your identity.

There's no cookie-cutter mold for any kind of person.  Don't be afraid to be different.

There are drag queen transmen.
There are transmen who want to be curvier and have bigger breasts.
There are transmen who thought of themselves as girls their entire lives.
I once met a transman who thought of himself as a woman, but also as a transman -- he got a lot of ->-bleeped-<- for it, but he never backed down.

There's no one way to be a man.
Hell, if cismen can be femme and not be MTF, then transmen can be femme and not be women.

The same goes for butch transladies. 

Gender expression doesn't need to conform to any standards. You don't have to be overtly masculine to be FTM. Why can't a cisguy wear makeup and still identify as male if he wanted to? 50 years ago, a cisfemale wearing pants and still identifying as female would have been considered crazy. You don't have to conform to any type of gender binary.
Parkerkennith on youtube identifies as FTM and he's on T, but he still likes wearing makeup and sometimes wearing girl's clothes. That doesn't make him any less trans.
Forget society and its labels and expectations, and just do what makes you comfortable and happy.

Quote from: Berger on January 19, 2012, 11:36:22 PM
Gender expression doesn't need to conform to any standards. You don't have to be overtly masculine to be FTM. Why can't a cisguy wear makeup and still identify as male if he wanted to? 50 years ago, a cisfemale wearing pants and still identifying as female would have been considered crazy. You don't have to conform to any type of gender binary.
Parkerkennith on youtube identifies as FTM and he's on T, but he still likes wearing makeup and sometimes wearing girl's clothes. That doesn't make him any less trans.
Forget society and its labels and expectations, and just do what makes you comfortable and happy.

I couldn't agree more.