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lil  ·  4196 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: From boy to girl in three years and 1000 pictures

Interesting. I know the transgender thing can be difficult for people to understand - but it seems pretty critical to me to feel that you are your body and your body is you. Best formerly female friend is now living pretty happily as a boy, calls himself liminal, no surgery. Also a cousin doing brilliantly as an f to m, including surgery. Male relative struggling with transition issues, but at 65 there are some fears that the hormones might exacerbate already existing heart disease.

How is it that I personally know three trans people. What about the rest of you? Do you think you could always tell? I'm pretty sure NOT.





Hein  ·  4195 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I have known 5 transgender people (that I know of) and had a short relationship with one of them. The earlier you start on hormones and surgery the better the results. But even after all that they still had a lot of gender issues.

thenewgreen  ·  4196 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    How is it that I personally know three trans people. What about the rest of you? Do you think you could always tell? I'm pretty sure NOT.
definitely not. To my knowledge, I don't know anyone struggling with gender issues, but if I did I would like to think that I would be a good person to talk to an provide support. My guess is that your a great person for those three to know.