Quote Originally Posted by ReineD View Post
The members who have come to the conclusion they are TS themselves, will sympathize more towards the possibility that any Questioners might be TS as well
Excellent observation RD, but I think my perspective has tilted since being an active member here. I definitely used to think that people don't question their station for nothing. Where there is smoke there's fire right? But that perspective was born of ignorance about the "continuum". I didn't really understand that people could cross dress and still be perfectly happy with their genetic situation. My story has been one of resistance and eventual acceptance so I just kind of colored everyone else with the only brush that I had on me.

Lately I've come to learn that there are indeed degrees of TG'ness but I've also noticed a tendency to sort of idealize the TS girls. I sense a feeling that some of the CD's want or wish they could be TS because they think of it as more of an elite sorority instead of what it really is. A bizarre and horrifying life change that begins with a 100 days of terror and eventually becomes just an average life as an odd looking woman.

I have become sensitive to this idea that CD'rs are "ready for the next step" or that they are "almost full time already" so transition is just paperwork. What me and the other transitioners have done is simply make a commitment to be honest with ourselves and the world. It's a commitment that ripples through every single aspect of our lives and so I have to admit to a little eye rolling when a CD'r decides that they are "really transsexual". They may be of course and I'm certainly not making judgements nor do I think I'm qualified to do so. I'm just a another tranny struggling through transition, but I'm living a real life and suffering real consequences and people who dress up and go shopping in the next town over don't get to say they are just like me.