[GoneGirl]

I dont want to try to pretend, however successfully (or not - mostly not) that I am a woman, I want to have been born one. Therein lies the dysphoria.

I now see how we are fundamentally different, Bryony. I don't want to pretend, however successfully, that I am a man, despite having been born one (male sex organs). Therein lies my dysphoria.

Clara

Sounds like two sides of the same coin to me, C ! Except mine is cheaper

B.

Maybe, but cheaper? That depends on how you do the accounting.
Clara

The only way that matters when money is short!

Think Mr Micawber's recipe for happiness:

"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen shillings and six pence, result happiness.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery." - Charles Dickens, David Copperfield



B.

Yes, I've read the book. I felt sorry for Mr. Micawber's financial situation, as I do yours, Bryony.

I'm extremely grateful for the position I'm in today, with a supportive spouse and enough extra money to treat my transgender condition. They say money can't buy happiness, but in my case it certainly has. I earned that extra money living and working as a man in a man's world. I'll spend it as a woman....

Clara