"Are you a woman!"

[TxKimberly]

Reine - I don't think it is the same for the people who transition "once it's convenient". Honestly, amongst the people I know (and this is across all age groups), you can usually tell because the women are just women, and whatever the other ones are, they're the folks trying to act like "women".

I know people like to say that "it's hard to learn how to be a woman, especially when you're old". My personal belief is that, outside of purely practical skills like makeup application (which not every cis woman knows), if you have to learn how to be a woman, that's telling in some ways...

My God, do you have any idea how arrogant your posts are? Many of us were born long before you were a gleam in your parents eyes. Long before your average muggle knew what "transgender" meant. Long before WE knew what "transgender" meant. Many of us came to learn all about what it meant to be TG far too late to jump on the wagon and say " I am a woman". Nope, we looked around us figured there must be something wrong with us, and tried to make the best out of our screwed up lives. Now, 50 freaking years later, and everyone knows exactly what it means to be TG and it is too damned late for us. We a have jobs, we have wives, we have families, we have decades of learning and habit to overcome, and so we do the best that we can and we sacrifice.
And yeah, some of us have come late to the game and need to unlearn decades of habit and training. . . .
As if that were not enough, and the derision of the typical muggle was not enough, now we have conceited TS's that want to point at us and say that we are lacking. . .
I'm too pissed off to remain polite so I'll leave off here. . .