Dawn wrote:The comment was an allusion to the completion of a transitioning journey I am making which will end soon hopefully when I get final paperwork and the surgery dependent on that paperwork.
I'm assuming that you mean, in blunt terms, that you are an M-to-F transsexual awaiting "SRS". (I generally need to have things explained to me in "blunt" terms, being a bit slow about figuring things out from clues.)
Dawn wrote:I apologize if this is offensive to any one,...
I don't understand why this would be offensive to anyone, but there's a lot I don't understand, and I assume you would know better than me how many people take offense at what you are doing.
On the other hand, it's a desire I can't really wrap my head around. I may wonder whether I like "girly" clothes because I want to look like a girl, or just because I like them for what they are (sort of like liking strawberry ice cream.) But I've never really
identified that much with being male -- it's just the body and the role I got given -- so I've never felt that getting myself reassigned from the category "male" to the category "female" would really change who I am or how I feel about myself (or about what I wear.) I've had my name, my gender role, my genitalia, and my beard for a long time now, and while on the one hand I can't say that they're anything to brag about, on the other hand, like my troubles, I'm used to them by now and I haven't found any reason to think that I'd be any happier with different ones. If I really
identify with anything, it's with things like my ability to make things work ("techie-ness") or my relationship with music, or my love for my kids (and, at one time, my (now ex-)wife.)
and after all your mother and i went through to keep clothes on your table and food on your back. and to think that i could have been the next charles steinmetz, if i didn't have to earn enough to put your sister in that classy private stable up north!
