denial
[dinī′əl]
Etymology: L, denegare, to negate
1 refusal or restriction of something requested, claimed, or needed, often causing physical or emotional deficiency.
2 an unconscious defense mechanism in which emotional conflict and anxiety are avoided by refusal to acknowledge those thoughts, feelings, desires, impulses, or facts that are consciously intolerable.
Mosby's Medical Dictionary, 8th edition. © 2009, Elsevier.
Thus I don't believe Brandy is in denial. She (and I because I am in the same boat...we might call it NON-op TS?) knows what she is she just does not feel the need to act on it at this time. Also she (and those of us who are in that boat) don't have physical or emotional deficiency so we don't fit (1) either.

Are there TS's who are in denial? Yes. Those of us who are not acting on it at this point may have been there at one time (heck most of us oldsters were in denial over just being TG) but others may have never had any doubt but either didn't have the resources (Thus if you win the lottery) or we didn't like teh surgical options available at the time (Basically it was nothing more than a castration and penectomy...and really just because you don't have a penis doesn't make you feel any more feminine...it just makes you a "nullo" as they call them). And here is the basic thing "we" see. Just because a TS is on their way and they feel that they will physically soon match their needs, does not make those of us who are not going through this for whatever reason less cognizant of who we are.

I will speak for me and if Brandy wants to say otherwise, she can, but we are not denying anything. We are in our minds realistic and logical for who we are.