[jannet.duff]

The problem, Sofia, is that being labeled "Trans-gendered" never, NEVER felt like that was an accurate description. To me, that is when a person want to be full time the opposite of what he/she was born as. Or, a person who wants to do the complete SRS thing.

The way my mind thinks, to be called trans-gendered, is worse than being called a transvestite. In my world, a transvestite just get a thrill sexually from cross dressing. And assumed to have some mental defect.

Now I realize, that the term has been made to encase all facets of the above. It will take some time before I get accustomed to having that label attached to me. I am just now understanding, that it's a label that Doctor's, Therapists and the like use to differentiate from the real troubled persons and I have to accept that I am not flawed, but it's MY normal.

I see transgendered as a feeling, a want, a need, to be seen and accepted as feminine.
Not as Full SRS or it means nothing.