[Lenneth]

Bryony said "(they have a tick-box mentality - TS = SRS)". I can see why you think that but let me tell you that the view from inside the process is very, very different. It is very easy to fall OUT of the programme but these days the professionals are very aware that full transition is not the goal of every TS and that there are shades of transition.

well, the So-Called Professionals in the usa have yet to reach that point...

And yet, the odd thing about being TS is how little changes. In one respect nothing changes at all. Your life is still there and you still have to do everything you did before, but the inner change - knowing you are female - is beyond price and I cannot describe the contentment it brings. Being TS is not looking like a beauty queen or even looking like a woman. it is about knowing that you are female and feeling that physical feminity and being socialised as female but life still carries on.

take that then insert being a synthesis of both male and female and you will understand at least some (if not most) of us.

I hope I have not upset any of you because that is not my intention but if I have misunderstood you or upset anyone then I apologise without reservation. I just want you to understand why I have posted what I did and why this is not really the correct forum for me to be on.

No upsets at all, and misunderstandings are a part of life.

I may still call back from time to time - I guess it all depends on how things go and what mood I am in.

Please do!