[Marcy]

I've recently come across the work of Dr. Anne Lawrence. I must say I'm intrigued...

http://www.annelawrence.com/mtimb.html

This book is very heavy reading but I'm interested in her approach to what is actually happening for me psychologically. I've pondered it some, but have been more focused on physical changes. As I take more time to consider the emotional side, I'm drawn to this Author.

Here's an excerpt:"Whether one prefers to think of the genesis and continuation of nonhomosexual MtF transsexualism in terms of something resembling attachment (or pair-bonding) to the image of one’s female-bodied self or in terms of the ascendency of a new, cherished female gender identity within one’s self-system is not terribly important. Both represent attempts to put into words something that is hard to understand and adequately describe, even for those of us who have experienced it: the process by which a man’s erotic desire to turn his body into a facsimile of a female body eventually gives rise to a strongly held, highly valued cross-gender identity and the process by which that new identity—that image of himself as a female—becomes the focus of his desire, admiration, idealization, attachment, and love—the same emotions that he might experience for an actual female partner.