[GoneGirl]

For many of us, and I include myself in this group, bringing our bodies into alignment with our inner gender identity is the only way we know how to ease our GD. The misalignment of body and soul is the very source of our dysphoria, and had we addressed our gender identity issues while still young, we likely would have transitioned to life as a girl and a woman and avoided the suffering that many of us have endured for decades.

Those of us who for one reason or another did not transition early, and are only now doing something about it, are at a terrible disadvantage with so many years passing under the effects of testosterone. CD clubs provide some GD relief certainly, but not complete escape.

I guess that's why I keep pushing the boundaries day by day, moving inch by inch, trying to close the gap between my true self and the image of that true self that I hold dear. I will never completely accomplish that goal despite hours and hours of time and thousands of dollars attempting to do so. I don't even know if in the end I'll think it was all worth it.

Transgenderism that is not treated early in life becomes a chronic condition that too often brings frustration, humiliation, impoverishment, even death.

Without support networks like we have here at BN, the despair of transgenderism would be unbearable.

Comments?

Clara