Nope.
Succinct, right?
Nope.
Succinct, right?
When I die, bury me face down so the world can kiss my
nope,even though i always wanted to be female,i would not trade my male side for anything..i got used to being both terry and cheryl,i have the top part of a female and the bottom of a male,so like two people sharing one body...when i hit puberty i stopped taking my shirt off and quit dressing out for gym,i was mistaken for female til i said something that lasted til i was 17 and finally grew a mustache to show i was male,never had much body hair either..but you know i get to enjoy being me..i have a supportive wife who has helped me see reality,a son who knows and loves cheryl..what more can i ask for...now the power to change back and forth maybe..
The problem with rolling back the clock more than 50 years (to 1959) is that you also roll back 50 years of social evolution. If I could have grown up in today's world, with sympathetic parents, I would have lived my childhood as a girl, and would have transitioned as soon as possible. But growing up when I did, the choices I made at the time were certainly the correct ones. Not being able to express my true self led to a lot of frustration, but it was the only hope of having a more-or-less normal life.
It doesn't really work to ask or tell "would you have done this back then". If I had known then what I know now, I would have bought stock in Microsoft.
When I was young, I knew I was a boy and that boys and girls were different. I knew that from what my parents and school taught me. While I sometimes wore my mother's bra and/or panties, it never occurred to me that I could be a girl or even that I wanted to be one. I've had a decent life as a male and there's no telling what it might have been like if I had been a female. Transitioning in high school? No way, even if it had been possible back in the dark ages.
In the era when I grew up, there was absolutely no support system for transgender youth. none. It was unheard of. Besides, I was already isolated, shunned, had no friends, and was made fun of. So it would have just been more of the same Life back then....sucked big time. Age 3-18 was a nightmare for me.
If I had the option to do it in today's world, with at least some type of support, I'd like to think, well maybe; but then again, today it's a different world. Plastic surgery is way more available to fix what was wrong with my face, and the same with my teeth.
Could I do it today? yeah. Would I? I don't know. The option isn't available. So I don't dwell on it.
Some causes of crossdressing you've probably never even considered: My TG biography at:http://www.crossdressers.com/forums/...=1#post1490560
There's an addendum at post # 82 on that thread, too. It's about a ten minute read.
Why don't we understand our desire to dress, behave and feel like a girl? Because from childhood, boys are told that the worst possible thing we can be, is a sissy. This feeling is so ingrained into our psyche, that we will suppress any thoughts that connect us to being or wanting to be feminine, even to the point of creating separate personalities to assign those female feelings into.
What a wonderful opportunity these treatments are for our transgender youth but I doubt they consider it a choice. More like correcting a mistake. I wouldnt have done it. I didn't choose to be a crossdresser either. All I can do is be happy society is beginning to be more accepting of a new generation of those transitioning.
Being a late bloomer, hormones worked well for me at age 18.
Work on your elegance,
and beauty will follow.
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