Quote Originally Posted by Nicki B View Post
It may not always be that clear-cut.
Of course not. As I have expressed some CD's are Borderline TS and versa. That intersect in my opinion would be quite difficult to deal with, but I'm sure those who are on that intersect thrive in their expression and passions.

Have you ever, as IS, felt you were dysphoric?
That's a tricky question. I guess for 12 months from the time I learned about being IS and that I had been lied to all my life, then discovering all the therapy and medical interventions, I felt totally confused and lost, fall into a very very seriously dangerous depression whilst other intense stressful things were taking place and I was mentally and physically exhausted.

So I made a choice, change me or change the world. Changing the world was not what most people would consider a fair decision. So it was left to change me.

Just because people don't express themselves fulltime, it doesn't mean they only feel that way part-time; it's always dangerous to generalise, or to label others?
Depends. Most of the CDs I have great friendships with are very much part time. Friday afternoon to Monday Morning. They aren't in the closet as such, their work colleagues know about their playfulness, some have had encouragement to 'bring her to work' on occasions. But one friend told me very specifically her CD personality is her social life, not her work life and she loves it that way.

I do not thing a TS however can be 'part time' because transsexualism is so much more than just the clothes. Crossdressing isn't as physiological. It may be psychological, but its hardly a 'crisis' psychology. If anything a CD's crisis is not having the freedom and acceptance to 'switch' as they wish. Something I greatly support and encourage because for every CD that plays the gender boundary socially, a TS can be less focused on 'passing' and ore focused on living. If you get what I mean.

If you're going to tell a genetic woman who can't have children that she's 'not a woman', please let me know so I can make sure I'm not around at the same time...
I sure will never say such a thing! I use that as an example for people when asking them to define a Woman, or a Man. And I use physiological and medical 'catastrophes' to make anyone who defines a woman as 'child bearing' or a man as 'with penis' to reconsider.

So are you a chimera/mosaic? How did you come to find out?
Yes I am, it seems. I found out when I got rushed to hospital one day an orange/green colour with no feeling, no vision and no hearing. They did some basic tests and sent me home saying the tests were contaminated. I took the results regardless. Four weeks later it happened again, but I wasn't in a foreign country this time. SO just had to deal with it.

Four weeks after that, it happened again and this time I went to a private doctor. He did the same tests, came back with the same results: Estrogen and Menses in the urine. I said too coincidental, he said lets so some more tests. So took some needles - which I HATE and an still traumatized by - and took 7 samples. Four came back XX 2 came back XY and one came back contaminated.

Then he conducted some limited (because of my circumstances) physical and internal inspections and discovered post operative scaring.

Or are you XXY or XXXY?
Fortunately not. If what I am is in fact fortunate?

So far I've only found 6 other people in the world who are similar to me. I'm sure there are hundreds more, but finding them is challenging Assuming any know!

One girl I know only found out 2 years ago when she was in a car accident and they opened her up to stop internal bleeding and discovered ovaries. Eeeeps! I think I'd have gone into a coma!