Thanks, Scotti, your history of gender dysphoria runs along the same thread as many others. Reading your story reminded me of some of my own early childhood experiences, like learning how to knit and sew. I remember needing a new pair of mittens for winter but unable to afford them at the time, I found an old coat lining of fake fur and sewed my own. Also, the imaginary game playing with my younger sister. She was quite the tomboy, actually, so we bounced back and forth between typical girls and then boys play; cowboys and indians one day, and playing house the next.
I'm rather new to this NBE road myself, as many of us are. No one seems to know where it leads. I figure the road takes as many twists, turns, and detours as there as members here. It does seem to me that if you keep at it, the inevitable outcome is transition to some degree. It depends on the proportion of male to female in one's gender identity. The problem for me is not knowing what the ratio is. I started out thinking it was 70/30, then I revised it to 60/40. I'm starting to think 50/50 now. Where will it stop??
I feel for you GD girls that are in the middle years of your life, though. That's the hardest time to want to take steps to resolve your gender issues. In some ways, I'm glad I was blissfully unaware of the whole cross gender, cross dreaming bugaboo when I was your age. I guess 'blissfully' isn't the right word to use. It was anything but.
You've come to the right place, Scotti. We are a family. If there ever was a group of souls who can understand and sympathize with your challenges, it's this diverse cadre of crossgendered, avatared, crazies that gather together here every day.
Clara Kay
I'm rather new to this NBE road myself, as many of us are. No one seems to know where it leads. I figure the road takes as many twists, turns, and detours as there as members here. It does seem to me that if you keep at it, the inevitable outcome is transition to some degree. It depends on the proportion of male to female in one's gender identity. The problem for me is not knowing what the ratio is. I started out thinking it was 70/30, then I revised it to 60/40. I'm starting to think 50/50 now. Where will it stop??
I feel for you GD girls that are in the middle years of your life, though. That's the hardest time to want to take steps to resolve your gender issues. In some ways, I'm glad I was blissfully unaware of the whole cross gender, cross dreaming bugaboo when I was your age. I guess 'blissfully' isn't the right word to use. It was anything but.
You've come to the right place, Scotti. We are a family. If there ever was a group of souls who can understand and sympathize with your challenges, it's this diverse cadre of crossgendered, avatared, crazies that gather together here every day.
Clara Kay