How many on this site consider themselves TGirls as oppsoed to CDers...???

The past several weeks I've been talking to ememting or otherwise coming across those girls who consider themsleves as Tgirls for a variety of reasons..some have has the surgery some are on homones and others just consider themselves TG's...

In conversatiosn with them about me it seems that most feel that I'll probably be heading in that direction or see no reeason why I wouldn't or shouldn't given my particualt suitaion now...

Just want to bounce a few things off some of you TGirls to see which way you feel....

Hit me up please....

Stephanie...

bounce away......

I feel that I am transgendered, rather than strictly a crossdresser. There is a part of me that really wishes I had had the fortune of being female rather than male. The feeling never really goes away, and stays with me every day and at most times. I have decided that I will not pursue transition and SRS, though. Things are just going to have to stay the way they are physically. I'm too steeped into the life I have now to make such radical alterations to it. But it is an omnipresent regret that I can never experience true womanhood.

i am what i am... pre op tranny or if you prefer just a humble T-Girl

I used to consider myself a CD but lately after a few sessions with a gender therapist I consider myself TS now.


I haven't started HRT yet though due to my job.

*sighs*

I have known for a long time that I was born into the wrong body. I was on hormones and living 24/7 as my true self, until some medical issues forced me to give up my transition and go back to presenting outwardly as a male. In a way, I feel like I am crossdressing by wearing male clothes. I only truly feel like 'me' when I can present the female persona outwardly, but for the time being, I have to just be content knowing who I am and showing the true me when possible. I have, however, considered returning to therapy and possibly persuing hormones again but it is doubtful that I will ever fully transition. Like Marla, I have been able to somewhat establish myself in my life, and transitioning at this point would likely have serious reprocusions.

Just remember, people on the internet are not qualified to tell you that you are or are not TS and should persue HRT, etc. The only one that can tell you that is you.

crossdressing early in life led me to the eventual realization of being transgender.

Just an ole hoe CD formerly known as transvestite in the old days. My hormones are multivitamins. Am not into any other direction thank you... to each their own.

i havent really been thinking about it but somehow part of me want to be male yet the other part wants to feel what it is like to be female and wants to be one but im probably going to be stuck in my current shape.

I'm just a bona fide crossdresser me, i enjoy being a guy to much to give it up :)

I enjoy dressing in feminine clothing when i can, but not enough to give up what i have already as a guy.

being a CD! :brolleyes:

I have no idea of what being TG feels like!:eek: (Yet)!?:heehee:

I think of myself as being "female gendered" regardless of hormones or organs, therefore I tend not to think of myself as a crossdresser. Caroline to me is not another personality or a costume that I can change into and out of. She's who I am regardless of how I'm dressed. Tho, I still like my male body and have no desire for any sort of surgery or physical change.

T-girl or Transgendered is about right for me.

Me? Well a boy that once though he was a CD who grew up and realized he wasn't really a he after all and has accepted that he has always been a she.

Or the short version - I am a TS :D

T-Girl.

Hugs...Joni Mari

I consider myself a transexuall and I have the D-cup to prove - by the way they are home grown

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Originally Posted by TGMarla

I feel that I am transgendered, rather than strictly a crossdresser. There is a part of me that really wishes I had had the fortune of being female rather than male. The feeling never really goes away, and stays with me every day and at most times. I have decided that I will not pursue transition and SRS, though. Things are just going to have to stay the way they are physically. I'm too steeped into the life I have now to make such radical alterations to it. But it is an omnipresent regret that I can never experience true womanhood.

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Marla, this is exactly where I am. I crossdress but what I am really focus on is the feeling of being female, even if I don't look like one. So, my crossdressing is not about just dressing up, it's more about finding the clothes, look, etc, that reflect the feminine/female me.

[SIZE=4]If I would have grown up about 20 years later (in a time when I could get on the internet and see that I was not alone) I might have pursued hormone therapy or a sex change. It seems like it is too late now, so I am content as a CD. Plus I have grown to appreciate the convenience of being male occasionally (peeing in the woods for example).[/SIZE]

The term T-girl has been very vaguely defined, and is, AKAIK, a very general catch-all, slang term. I don't see why anyone would argue that they're a T-girl when the term is so vague.

Maybe its meaning has evolved and I'm not aware of it.

Carol

Crossdresser for me.

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Originally Posted by Julogden

The term T-girl has been very vaguely defined, and is, AKAIK, a very general catch-all, slang term. I don't see why anyone would argue that they're a T-girl when the term is so vague.

Maybe its meaning has evolved and I'm not aware of it.

Carol

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Do any of the terms generally bandied about, except possibly "transsexual", have an exact meaning? Definitions that are generally agreed on by everyone? Just curious. Most of the labels I've run across in various groups seem kind of nebulous and subject to personal preference.

Hugs...Joni Mari

I have always felt trapped in the wrong body. I am not currently transitioning, mostly because, like others, I pass very well as a man - but it is growing increasingly difficult.

Honestly, I don't really understand the urge to crossdress - unless by crossdress you mean me walking around passing as a guy.

I'm a stuck up snob. But in real life I'm a "trans woman." :heehee:

On hormones and slowly transitioning, someday will have SRS. :battingeyelashes:

The term "tgirl" is ambiguous. It could mean TS or TG. TG is an umbrella term that covers both TS and CD. I regard myself as CD and hence as TG. I would never give up my male side. I sometimes think of myself as bi-gendered, although that term is used in different ways.

After many years of contemplation, understanding and self awareness, I can say that for me, it is far more than "just about the clothes" so I cannot simply consider myself a crossdresser.

:)
jenn

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Originally Posted by TGMarla

I feel that I am transgendered, rather than strictly a crossdresser. There is a part of me that really wishes I had had the fortune of being female rather than male. The feeling never really goes away, and stays with me every day and at most times. I have decided that I will not pursue transition and SRS, though. Things are just going to have to stay the way they are physically. I'm too steeped into the life I have now to make such radical alterations to it. But it is an omnipresent regret that I can never experience true womanhood.

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I have reached a similar state of resignation, though in my own case I'm not sure that I'm not just rationalizing. I believe, quite sincerely, that if I were forty years younger, I would be transitioning fully (if only I had known then what I know now).

As others have posted, it is definatly about more than the clothes. If I had been born some years later I would have pursued transitioning much more actively. I do not consider myself transexual in that I do not wish to have SRS, but I do wish I could express my female side more fully, and would consider Breast augmentation, FFS, hormones and probably going full time. So I am definately in the TG camp. And I somewhat agree that TG is a spectrum, from occasional crossdressing for whatever reason, to full SRS, and most of us fall somewhere in the middle.....Stephanie

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Originally Posted by Michelle S

The term "tgirl" is ambiguous. It could mean TS or TG. TG is an umbrella term that covers both TS and CD. I regard myself as CD and hence as TG.

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Originally Posted by Stephanie-L

As others have posted, it is definatly about more than the clothes.

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Is it ever really just about the clothes? Clothes send powerful signals, both to ourselves and others.. Surely they're just a symptom, not the underlying cause.. :strugglin

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Originally Posted by Sherry-Stephanie

The past several weeks I've been talking to ememting or otherwise coming across those girls who consider themsleves as Tgirls for a variety of reasons..some have has the surgery some are on homones and others just consider themselves TG's...

In conversatiosn with them about me it seems that most feel that I'll probably be heading in that direction or see no reeason why I wouldn't or shouldn't given my particualt suitaion now...

Just want to bounce a few things off some of you TGirls to see which way you feel....

Hit me up please....

Stephanie...

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There's not much to bounce off you really... Only YOU know in your heart of hearts what you really are..
I KNOW without a doubt what I am, and always have, but fought it off since early childhood.. But then it became so apparent & overwhelming because I felt like I was losing the battle & the war as time past, so I had to finally face to truth and myself in order to make a decision..Like, Do I really want to continue to abuse my body & mind and ultimately a tormented souls death in mans body by my own hand??, OR do I want to face the facts and choose life...and bring my body into alignment with my brain to live the rest of my life as a woman as I was truly meant to be from the very start, & feel complete in my body, mind & soul..

I decided to go the hard way & chose life over death..:straightface:

It sucks hard, I was born wrong and I have to live with it. However I love my wife so much I will never screw that up. SO I was born wrong and lesbian! :Angry3:

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Originally Posted by Julogden

The term T-girl has been very vaguely defined, and is, AKAIK, a very general catch-all, slang term. I don't see why anyone would argue that they're a T-girl when the term is so vague.

Maybe its meaning has evolved and I'm not aware of it.

Carol

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I take it as meaning transexual...like me. it someone wants to split hairs,more power to them.

Maybe it is just me, but I feel I am more Transgender then CD.. I shave my entire body, I let my nails and hair grow long. I work on walks and body movements that are more female then male. I have always looked at CD ing as just wearing the clothers.. Dressing as a female only. When you work to appear female.. or as some say pass then I see you as a Tgirl.

I used to think I was a CDer. Now I think I am TS. I wish I came to this understanding when I was 17. Dammit. But now, I don't know if I'll ever become a woman. Too much time under the bridge with family, etc. If I could magically change and have my family recognize my new self and forget the old self. I would do it right now.

Oh yeah. I can't stand being a guy. I feel like it's a facade, like I'm in some weird Twilight Zone episode. Indeed, I have never felt happiness going back to guy mode for any reason.

Important thing is to live as you see fit.
LAbels are silly and basically if one claims a label, it just causes arguments.

"You are not a real TS if...." gets rang too often on forums or real life.

Live as you need to

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Originally Posted by Nicole Erin

Important thing is to live as you see fit.
LAbels are silly and basically if one claims a label, it just causes arguments.

"You are not a real TS if...." gets rang too often on forums or real life.

Live as you need to

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Labels to me are just an attempt to understand my inner self, they don't define me.

[SIZE="3"] Reminds me of the joke whats the difference between a CD and TS.......about 3 years.

Non-Op TS here altought not presenting as female full time that is my own shoulder lenght blonde highlighted hair, smooth and hairless here, mannerisms are more female than male, oh almost forgot 2 years on HRT[/SIZE]

I feel like a crossdresser who sometimes feels like a TG. MMMM you know maybe I am cd on her way to being a tg?

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Originally Posted by Sherry-Stephanie

The past several weeks I've been talking to ememting or otherwise coming across those girls who consider themsleves as Tgirls for a variety of reasons..some have has the surgery some are on homones and others just consider themselves TG's...

In conversatiosn with them about me it seems that most feel that I'll probably be heading in that direction or see no reeason why I wouldn't or shouldn't given my particualt suitaion now...

Just want to bounce a few things off some of you TGirls to see which way you feel....

Hit me up please....

Stephanie...

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idk the technical diference between the terms. all i know is that i am a beautiful girl. surgery or not. doesnt matter. you cant put a lable on me baby. (unless its gucci!) lol

Just a gray haired old crossdresser here. No real internal feeling about being female, Just must rather would be dressed iin female clothing. I just love he feeling of them much better than mens clothes.

i think the fantasy of being tg sounds like fun
but in reallity if i were tg and started that jeorney
the magic would end and what then
for me is deffinatly a fun thing ,a cder
i am what i am and love it

TG or not TG, that is the question? (Sorry Will)
I vaguely remember trying to look like a girl when I was pre-teen (such a long time ago) and wondering why I couldn't wear pretty things like they did. Now at the other end of the time line I love to dress completely and look like a woman (and fool myself occasionally that I feel like one too:daydreaming:). Unfortunately that happens far too infrequently nowadays. :sad:
So I guess I am just a CD.

:love:

Edwina

I consider myself as transgendered, I identify and dress as a woman most of the time, I do not want SRS, I am happy with my plumbing.

I am a cross dresser and love my time dressed, it is an amazing feeling, but mine stops at cross dressing, no wishes or needs to take it any further

IMHO, most of us aren't sure what we are, and many of us have changing notions about it. I believe that we are all part of a TG (transgender) spectrum. Some of us are okay with an occassional "girl day", and some of us must live the life 24/7.

The key is for us to support each other regardless of our personal need and try to put our best face forward as a tolerant and loving community.

Well... medically defined I'm transsexual... I kind of see myself as being defined by two words the first beginning with a capital F and the second word is up. I'd not wish transsexuality on anyone, but I don't rightly know what 'T-girl' refers to... It's a bit of a buzz word really... Another vague umbrella word that muddies the water further.

So in medico-legalese I'm a transsexual. I'm kind of just trying to be a Lisa though.

Dropped that premise long ago. I'm a person first and foremost, this that ot the other thing second.

When talking with people I more often refer to myself as a T-girl.

Tranny seems like an unfriendly word thru it's uses sometimes.
Transexual really doesn't fully apply to me. No plans for 24/7.
Transvestite is just an old, medical term that I dislike.

Crossdresser also of course applies to me, but doesn't describe me as well as T-girl. I try to fully feel and display a female when I'm out. I walk and move as a female as best I can. I even try to work the voice into a female mode when I can.

Transgender: crossing gender. T-Girl: Transgender Girl, aka not born biologically female. They are not specific terms ( as in TransSexual ).

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Originally Posted by Julogden

The term T-girl has been very vaguely defined, and is, AKAIK, a very general catch-all, slang term. I don't see why anyone would argue that they're a T-girl when the term is so vague.

Maybe its meaning has evolved and I'm not aware of it.

Carol

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Boy (or girl) do I have to agree with you on that thought there Julogden. I've always been confused as to what the hell that meant. It was really vague and seemed to paint everyone with a generalized gender brush. 20 years ago when I was just getting used to being a TV, it gets changed to politically correct CD, then someone at a TV?CD meeting comes along and mentions the TG abbreivation and I ask "what the hell is that'? I know what the CD is and TS is in a class of its own as a transexual, but now we get a TG? , now its shortened to T-Girl. WTF?
Don't shoot g-men?

pretty Boy Floyd

Now that marriage is down the tubes and I will be changing jobs soon (hopefully) and more than likely moving out of this area and starting anew I am faced with this situation....

I think I can pull off dressing enfemme pretty good...so that being the case and I am being told by a few people that "I'm more than just across dresser...I'm a Tgirl" do I want to kick this up a notch or two....do I want to take hormones which my understanding is it will make my hips and but more fuller and woman like...give me some increase in my breast where I can get cleavage naturally it will smooth my skin and amybe do afew other things...

I will never have another relationship with a woman, not because I don't want to but because I am a non fuctioning male. Am illness 10 years ago left me incapale of being able to do the manly thing..so what woman would be interested in me. I'm not interested in totally transitionng and have the plumbing removed because I am not opposed to my maleness...I'm just thinking of improving on my female presentation...

To be honest about the whole thing I'm not sure exaclty what I am suppsoe to be in reference to "your a TGirl"....is it something I am not yet???? or is it something I'm trying to go to... a point I'm trying to reach and I need to do soemthing new to reach it i.e. hormones????

I have a lot of things on my plate at the moment, so no decidion is forth coming or required at this time...but I am obviously in a major transition of my life at the moment....so it's more of a journey at this time...a process jsut as it's been a process the first time I fully dressed to where I am today. I would like to hear from some of you who have been in this situation for which I am sure there are some who have similar experiences to what I am going though at this time...I'm not confused as much as I am not exactly sure what I want to do or how to get to where I am suppsoe to be going now....time will tell and thought and information and guidence will determine where i go...

I want to sit to think to ponder and to talk so if any of you can take the time to sit with me and be a sounding board to me I'd appreciate it....it's a journey for me with no guide, no mentor, no friend...and I guess I need one of those in my life...for Steve has been cast aside and Stephanie has been rejected...so now I need to know and discover who is left...so I can become who I need to become now....

Thanks....