Barleymower wrote: ↑Tue Oct 11, 2022 11:31 am
crfriend wrote: ↑Mon Oct 10, 2022 9:59 pm
It sounds like you managed to dodge a bullet with the transitioning matter. Happy news indeed.
I do appreciate the discussion. I don't really have many people to talk to about this. It's quite shocking for people to hear.
In reply it is happy news. I'm not however resting on my lorels. Its not something that will ever go away. It's hard wired in. It's a case of how best to deal with it. My sympathies are with those worse afflicted than me. It would be agonising. I can liken it to a earworm - a song that goes around and around in your head driving you mad. People are humming it everywhere you go.
Please don’t take this the wrong way as I’m just a curious individual. The whole transition thing. Some women wear more manly clothes than I do. Would you still transition if you still had to wear male clothing?
I’m not trying to boil down the transition thing down to just a clothing choice, that would be absolutely wrong. I know there’s way more to it.
But I’m curious as to how much the clothing choices play a role. None? Minimal? Some? More than some? Oh, and I’m not at all trying to suggest that if you were able to wear womens clothing without judgement, you wouldn’t want to transition.
I think the biggest problem I see with transitioning is we don’t discuss it in a meaningful way to truly understand it. I’m not interested in transitioning, so I just don’t have the insider knowledge of what goes on inside. But, like I said, I’m curious.
Sorry if this comes off poorly. My interest is to learn and understand.