[JustEmily]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5FviqVGtOE

I really like this video, especially the left handed reference.

[GoneGirl]

Instead Of Saying She Was 'Born A Boy,' Try The Way She Phrases It. She Nails It:

http://www.upworthy.com/instead-of-sayin...-it?c=upw1

I've never liked the 'trapped in a male body' phraseology. Yes, I am female, and yes, I was born with a male body, but I wasn't trapped in it. Rather it was outside influences that trapped me. Now that, two thirds of a century later, I have at last escaped from the trap, I am still in the body I was born with. Certainly there are ways in which that body does not conform with my gender, and for my own comfort I intend to do something about at least some of them - but no way am I still trapped and I am so happy to be able to live full time as a woman.

Annie, you are fortunate to be able look past your male form to experience life as your true gender. In any fair and just world, it shouldn't matter whether or not our countenance reflects our inner sense of gender.

I admire your ability to ignore the incongruence that most transsexuals experience between body and mind. I can honestly say that nearly half of my GD is due to mind-body mismatch along with the physiological disturbance that results from once being hormonally male.

But, I agree with you that "trapped in a male body" is not exactly the way I would describe my situation. I'm okay with my body for the most part, and if I wasn't trans, I'm sure I'd be just fine with it. It's starting to break down with age, but for the most part I am still healthy and able to live an active life.

What I find unsettling is the effect that male puberty has had in masculinizing my body. Having lately taken steps to undo some of those effects, I'm finding that my genetically male body is acceptable, and in some ways advantageous for the life I live. I don't have to be some kind of girl of my dreams to be happy. In that sense, I share your viewpoint. I just need to be enough female to satisfy my internal self-image of who I am as a woman.

Clara

[pom19]

Bruce Jenner's Special With Diane Sawyer On ABC's 20/20 Sets New Bar For Reporting On Transgender Issues
Posted: 04/25/2015 7:05 am EDT

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/25...html?flv=1

[WantAPair]

Bruce Jenner's Special With Diane Sawyer On ABC's 20/20 Sets New Bar For Reporting On Transgender Issues
Posted: 04/25/2015 7:05 am EDT

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/25...html?flv=1

I didn't get to see it (I've been SOOOO busy GREATLY updating my Tangerine Dream list!!), but I heard something on it where some woman that wants to be a guy said something like, "Imagine looking in the mirror every day and seeing yourself, but the way you see yourself doesn't fit at ALL with how you perceive yourself. That's what this is like!! Your shell does NOT match your insides and all you REALLY want to do is make the outer you match the inner you!" Mom was watching it in the other room for about 20 seconds and that's where she changed channel!!

[pom19]

Caitlyn Jenner to Accept Arthur Ashe Courage Award at 2015 ESPYs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF8gd2G91Kk

[pom19]

Transgender Victoria's Secret Angel?

http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/14/showbiz/tr...as-secret/

[pom19]

10 Gorgeous Women Who Were Born Male:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ656Wn3aMY

[Shae]

@Missed Miss ~

That really shouldn't be too surprising. If you consider how it was in the 50s when women first started to wear pants... they did not want to become men, they simply wanted to do what they wanted to do. It had little to do with sex or gender and everything to do with freedom.

So when guys only want to do the things girls do, but not to become girls, we should not find that surprising at all. In fact, what should surprise us is that some men feel they need to become women in order to do certain things. Such is the weird social pressure of our times.

I can sort of vouch for this personally. When i first started what others most likely considered a gender change, for me it was not that at all. It was simply asserting freedom of choice and equality. But virtually everyone treated it as a gender change, and in recent years i have been so consistently treated as a woman that i've finally caved in to the social pressure and accepted it, simply because it's the easiest path. But if you ask me whether i am transgendered, i most definitely am not.

This situation speaks volumes about modern uber-sexist society, whose values are mostly created by mass education and mass media.

[pom19]

@Missed Miss ~

That really shouldn't be too surprising. If you consider how it was in the 50s when women first started to wear pants... they did not want to become men, they simply wanted to do what they wanted to do. It had little to do with sex or gender and everything to do with freedom.

So when guys only want to do the things girls do, but not to become girls, we should not find that surprising at all. In fact, what should surprise us is that some men feel they need to become women in order to do certain things. Such is the weird social pressure of our times.

I can sort of vouch for this personally. When i first started what others most likely considered a gender change, for me it was not that at all. It was simply asserting freedom of choice and equality. But virtually everyone treated it as a gender change, and in recent years i have been so consistently treated as a woman that i've finally caved in to the social pressure and accepted it, simply because it's the easiest path. But if you ask me whether i am transgendered, i most definitely am not.

This situation speaks volumes about modern uber-sexist society, whose values are mostly created by mass education and mass media.

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An interesting point of view. POM

[pom19]

How to Feminize Your Winter Look (MTF Transgender / Crossdressing Tips):

http://feminizationsecrets.com/feminize-winter-look/