Sure not going to miss...

[dreamer_2.0]

UFC talk. Ugh. That or wrestling, or boxing. Car talk, too! And guys nights. Way too much testosterone. Can't wait for girls nights!

What won't (or don't) you miss about your male life?

[Angela Campbell]

lessee...........shirt and tie, aggression, being called "Mr" or "sir", barber shops, turn your head and cough.....

[Bridgetlagurl]

Once you get to the point of knowing your a girl, it's easy to understand why you thought all your male friends were such dumb asses. I am with you sister. no more stories about how they played the 16 hole today.

[Kimberly Kael]

Guys who think cigars are cool would be high on my list of things I don't miss at all, but that would only be at weddings and similar events where I'm surrounded by strangers. For the most part the people I spent time with before and after my transition are much the same, and they weren't obsessed with overtly manly things. I've never had anyone engage me in a discussion about wrestling, thank goodness.

The one true irony in my life is that I grew up with zero interest in sports, but somehow I met a woman who is a sports fanatic. She has taught me to appreciate some of them enough to watch games together with at least some level of interest. We've even held a few Super Bowl parties together as women, which is evidently somewhat common. Lesbians are far more likely to be interested in football than gay men, statistically speaking. ;-)

[StaceyJane]

My daughter watches UFC all the time so I've never thought of it as a guy thing.
I don't do many traditional male things. I've always just lived my life. As Stacey I'm pretty much the same person when I'm a guy.

[Rianna Humble]

Although I am not into violent sports personally, I'm with Stacey that sports are not the sole preserve of the guys.

As for what I won't miss? I can't remember anything worth missing - even male privilege.

OTOH, I was trying to be polite and let a bloke past on a narrow section of street and he replied with a phrase I thought had gone out of fashion
I've always believed in ladies first

[Kimberly Kael]

As for what I won't miss? I can't remember anything worth missing - even male privilege.

Turn it around like that and it's all too obvious you're right. I haven't given up anything I valued, except my father's respect. Even there what I actually lost was my respect for his world view, which hits new lows on the infrequent occasions that I hear from him.

Anything of importance to me that isn't classically feminine, like my fascination with technology and my love for my wife, remain utterly unchanged. Why would I leave behind anything that I value?

[I Am Paula]

I won't miss- People that expect me to talk about UFC, wrestling, boxing, or cars. Guy used to just walk up to me in social situations, and ask 'How about them Maple Leafs', like it's assumed I know what the hell they're talking about.

[Angela Campbell]

Another thing I do not miss at all is ....uhh...that uncomfortable....uhh....."condition" I used to wake up with every morning. :o

[Zooey_91]

I can't really think of anything that I'm really going to miss but the one thing that I'm sure not going to miss is soccer. I know it's not as popular in North America but here in Europe (I've lived in Ireland and Spain) men never shut up about soccer. Ireland is not as bad as Spain in this regard but we do have our own sports (Gaelic Football and Hurling)

[LeaP]

I won't miss walking into the wrong restroom by accident - something I do *constantly*. I won't miss the type of expressive control I exert today.

On the other hand, I've realized that unwinding a lifetime of coping mechanisms isn't going to be easy. One is avoiding serious conversation and genuine contact by turning everything (aside) into a joke. Jokes, sarcasm, jabs, puns, twisting things around, etc. I often feel compelled to do it, and I don't really like it. They say humor comes out of pain. Well, I've been feeling the pain a lot more than the humor lately.

[Ariamythe]

What I will not miss is being stuck on the guy's side of the party. You know how it is: every gathering, from a kid's birthday party to Christmas at grandmas, inevitably seems to segregate by gender. And while I'm not opposed to sports, or hunting, or whatever else is being talked about on the guy's side of the room, I just can't *relate* to those topics, and I find talking about them *boring*, and so I never do more than grunt out a "How about them Tigers?" every once in awhile. It doesn't help that the men in my extended family tend to be very Christian and conservative, so even when they get to more engaging topics they're usually on the opposite side of my opinion and VERY aggressive in promoting their views.