Yeah I bet it is real nice for those who might be thinking they are TS and then get ran off by the wonderful "advice" of some folks here. I am honestly glad I didn't have some forum to look at back when I was first trying to figure all this out. Back then, I would have been one of those "leaving with tails between legs". And I would have felt horrible and shunned by the TS community. These days, I do not care cause I finally learned I don't need someone telling me how to live.
Think of the noobs who are still trying to figure it out - they stumble across some Ts board, find a bunch of arguing about what a "real" tranny is with things like "If you don't do this or that, if you don't obsess over your genitals, if you get turned on by any article of clothing, or whatever rubbish, you are not real".
You know what? I have a certain article of women's clothing that turns me on. I do not obsess over my genitals, and being poor, I cannot afford to do this or that. Yet I live as a woman. I don't give a crap what some post-op or someone with too much spending money thinks.
I pay no mind to the Qualifiers.
I am trying to make myself a life in the real world, I care less if some other "real" tranny approves or not. But like i said - had i had the "benefit" of a forum telling me I wasn't real when i was still in the "nervous about buying a dress" stage, I would probably be really f****d up today. Thankfully I was able to figure things out on my own.