Too Old?

[Bree-asaurus]

It is sad that you feel somehow diminished by the discussion here. I have always thought that being gender variant is no lesser of a burden than being transsexual. In fact to me it is clear, that in many cases being gender variant is a much greater burden.

I have to agree here... I don't know what it's like to be between two genders. Easier, harder, I don't know. One thing I do know, however, is that at least transsexuals can transition and be themselves and still fit into society's binary society. We're still one or the other. It's harder for people to wrap their heads around someone who isn't male or female, or who is somewhere in between.

Moderator for this section feel free to remove this post but I have to say something. Something that has bothered me for a long time here. It is the idea that Transsexuals HAVE to have surgery. My post was stating that some of us feel we are beyond and age where surgery will be an advantage to US. That we are in reality just as transsexual as the ops, as the hormonals. The first posts were leading to the "You are not trans if you don't have surgery and you should NEVER have an excuse not to." I am militant in that I want everyone to be able to have what they want and not have anyone tell them they cannot. When a TS says "You have to...or you are not a TS" here it bugs the heck out of me. When the first posts were calling people like me out for being less than, I had to post and from the responses there are many of us who fall in the "I ain't having surgery" category. OK it isn't age, I just don't think in MY time of life which is later, that the advantages of surgery outweigh the happiness I have with who I am. I am so over the class warfare here

You said this before and I agreed with you that transsexuals don't HAVE to have surgery... many people also agree. You're taking what one or two people say and making sound like ALL transsexuals are on a war saying that if you don't have surgery you aren't transsexual.

Are you actually reading what we are saying or do you just have this chip on your shoulder and won't actually open your ears (or eyes...)?

Again, transition does not require surgery. And this is coming from a transexual that has already had partial surgery down there and WILL get full SRS as soon as things fall into place.

Can you accept the fact that the majority of transsexuals here aren't against you??? It sure sounds like you're fighting this one woman war that nobody sees but you.