As promised the email i wrote to this therapist. I needed all my courage to write this email, but i am absolutely sure that this is the only correct way.
So here we go:
I contact you, because i need you help, to clarify who i am and what i really want.
Already for 20 years i have the feeling that something is different with me. In the very first time it was just the desire, to wear woman clothes. I bought a lot in the internet and i liked to wear them. St this time i did not have any problem to be a man, i felt as a man that time. I just thought it is something strange, but ok. It is just rarely and therefore ok. I really don't thought in detail about it, i just defined me as a occasional cross dresser.
.
Bit at some point i made the expierence that there is more. My female side wanted tp present herself and wanted more to dress. So i went shopping and started to enjoy wearing high heels, corsetts and silicin breats. At this time i started my first go outs as a woman. I really liked iz and so i tokk every opportunity to dress as a womam and spend time as a woman.
And as the time went by i realized that my female side became stronger and demanded more attention. I realized that my female side wanted to be a part of my life and wanted to present more.
I tried to surpress it more or less and it was ok in the beginning. My male side tried to convince my female side on a logical way,to set limits to my female side, but it was not successful in the long run, it happened just the opposite.
I got used of it that my female side comes in waves, but the waves came stronger over the years. I noticed that my female side is much stronger now and has a strong impact on my life as a man, for instance i do not like the man's typical hair grow all over the body. If i take a closer look to typical male traits i try to deny them and try to be as much as i can not to be typical male. So i gave up to fight my female side, but i learned to accept her, which wasn't quite easy. Meanwhile i really like my female side, just one reason is that i can be so different to typical mans behavoir in the daily life.
I noticed that i became more sensitive and emotional.
In the last weeks i realized that the demand grew to go out as a woman. I just feel that my male side is just like a role i play but i am not really happy playing this role.
Now the question is what does it mean for me more and more, how i deal with it, which possibilities i have. Can i really live with a frustrated man's ego? Will be there some point, at which my internal demand to be a woman is so strong that my male side gives up?
I asked myself more often in the last time what it would mean for me just to lve only as a woman? My male side says it is nonsense, you have a great job, a family, which is really a family and friends, who i really like. Do i really want to give up for just an illusion? My female identity says please free me, i am your truely identity, but on the other hand my female identiy is scared about how my family and friends will react.
Does it make any sense? Can you help me dealing with it? What can i do?
It is now longer than i expected, but my thoughts just wanted to be written down.
This was the email i sent to the therapist and i was really a bit nervous about what the reaction will be. I thought about that she will say come on, listen to your male side. But from my point of view it wasn't very likely. In my dreams i just had another feeling. That she understands me and will confirm what i'm thinking about. I dreamed about having an appointment with her. I thought about what i would wear that day. I thought about how this appointment will be. Right in the beginning i will tell her about my feelings, about my desires, about my doubts and how happy i actually feel when i can dress me like a woman and go out. She would understand this and will tell me that from her point of view i am a transgender and she would recommend a therapy to check if my desire my demand fits in reality and that it would be the best to do a one year therapy with the goal to find out if i can live as a woman as i want and will help me with the coming outs. She would recommend to contact a psychologist to be a part of this process.
When i woke up i just said to myself this would be great.
..to be continued....
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Steps into the other gender - a commented journey
One way to find out more about what happens to me is the internet. I found this little guideline in the internet on a Austrian page and i like to share this. It is really worth to think about this. There are some stages, some recommendations which i like to comment as well.
But before i start with it just a few remarks about today. It was just a good day at work and i had a lot of fun doing my sports tonight. Now i am on the way back to my hotel and i am looking forward to dress myself as a woman. This is my highlight of the day.
I wrote about this illusion visiting a gender therapist. Last night before i finally felt asleep i thought about this once again and i dreamed the same again, but more in detail. But this time the main issue was the first contact and what i will write to her as a introduction of myself. It was quite interesting to remind me on some stages i reached. This is a very good introduction about this little gender guideline. Feel free to comment this. I really will appreciate this.
Every single step is worth as long as it is a step to your own gender
1. You realize already for a long time that you want to experience the other gender for yourself? What does it really mean? Lust? Passion? Do you promise yourself a escape from your current life situation? Check it. But be careful, what will happen, if you switch to a woman or man. If you live with somebody else talk to her, to him and share this experience.
it was some curiosity, but as well a special demand i had to wear female clothes and actually at this time i was not able to think that how far this will leads me.
2. Just try it. It does not make any sense just to dream about this. You can not learn the experience of gender at home alone. Go out in your other gender. This is not forbidden, there are no reason to blame yourself for it, if it is just a part of you or could be a part of you. But go to locations or events, where you can live your other gender safely. There are many crossdresser, transgender events out there. Just check the typical web sites.
yes this is so true and i did it and i do it. it is just being myself. and it fells wonderful.
3. Now you can feel something of what it means to be a woman or man in the society. The other glance, yes, do you succeed to deceive other people? But what does it mean for you? How did you experienced yourself? What was different to the imagination or illusion you had before?
it was really strange but i liked it.
4. Talk to somebody. Talk about it with your best friends. You nedd support if you continue to walk this way. You need any advice, as well if it hurts. If somebody says you move wrongly is more worthfully as somebody just take it as it is and does not talk about it.
5. Go out as much as you can or want, just be yourself. Accept und do't be disappointed if you are not perceived as a man or woman at once. Boys and girls need years until they become woman or man. Why should it be different for you?
6. Get to know other transgenders. Realize where the problems are and if you thinking about little things. Try to learn from the experience of others.inform yourself about the risks and usage of hormones and about transition.
7. Is it really important for you to continue? Think about the different op-tions you have. There are a lot of different legal regulations. Think about it if the official way of transition fits your demand. But if you say yes, this is absolutely what i want it is time to see a therapist who is specialized in gender issues. But take your time you do not have to decide right now.
8. Does it make sense to you? Do you have doubts? Looking for answers in chatrooms, forums. Contact self help groups, you might find answers for your questions and find ways you can take as a guideline for your-self.
9. Present yourself to your friends. Explain them. It is not necessary that they hear any rumors about you. But don't give them the feeling that they have to judge you.don't be afraid: real friends will accept you. And just be honest you don't have to get along well with everybody. Some people will only needle you with this anyway.
10. Teach yourself to be a woman or man, just one woman, just one man, who you really are. You will realize to find new ways to express your real personality, your true identity. Live it the way you want, but be careful, what is really you and what is a mask you use to survive. Don't take it wrong.to live really your identity you have to get rid of the mask, but be yourself.
11. Good friends are a very important support. But for them it is mostly very difficult to accept you in your new gender and still talk to you as you were just the one you used to be. Others just only seem tolerate your new gender. But help yourself. Find new friends who only knows you with your new name and gender.
12. As a mtf you will spend a lot of time to get the body you want, to re-duce the hair grow at places you do not like at all. There are a lot of possibilities to reduce it.
13. If you start to take hormones and you realize the first changed it is time to give up the hiding. You will present yourself in your new gen-der. You will meet people to whom you had only little contact.some of them won't accept your new gender, some after the transition, some never.but this is not your problem, it is theirs. Do not make it to your own.
14. It is for you almost unacceptable for you to present yourself in your old gender. Start, especially if you really want the transition to pre-pare your employer and colleagues. It is sometimes helpful to change your name to a gender neutral one that anybody takes this changes as real and seriously.
15. At one day you stand in front of a mirror and you see a woman/man. There are no doubts anymore. You are truely you eant to be. It doesn't make a different if other people accept it or not. No matter how you live. You watch yourself and you know this is a woman/man. Nothing can change this anymore adnd questioned it.
In this moment you are truly a woman/man.when ever it happens, after many years or yesterday. You are what you are. But just in another gender.
So far so good.
when i just reflect this on my own there are a lot of important views.
Just for me i
I just want to tell you something else. I was running tonight and afterwards i needed a shower. But before i took the shower i took a shaver and conti-nued to shave me. I really don't like the hairs anymore. It looks so silly. The good thing afterwards my skin is so soft. It is just a good feeling. To wear nylons, a slip and a bra under the usual man clothes. I do this quite often and i really like it. Then i went out for dinner. But to be honest. What i re-ally wanted tonight was to go out as a woman. How many of you have the same feeling, the same desire, the same demand?
The interesting thing is that this comes always when i am alone. Just a bit of strange. Why only when i am alone?
I looking forward for tomorrow afternoon. I am finally back home again and i will go to the post office to pick up three packages. Inside there is a whole set of nails and everything you nedd to wear artifical nails, then my new pink and black leggings, blue and pink shirts and new nylons. When i am at home inwill try all of these and spend the evening as a woman. Maybe i will go out and walk a little bit around.
But before i start with it just a few remarks about today. It was just a good day at work and i had a lot of fun doing my sports tonight. Now i am on the way back to my hotel and i am looking forward to dress myself as a woman. This is my highlight of the day.
I wrote about this illusion visiting a gender therapist. Last night before i finally felt asleep i thought about this once again and i dreamed the same again, but more in detail. But this time the main issue was the first contact and what i will write to her as a introduction of myself. It was quite interesting to remind me on some stages i reached. This is a very good introduction about this little gender guideline. Feel free to comment this. I really will appreciate this.
Every single step is worth as long as it is a step to your own gender
1. You realize already for a long time that you want to experience the other gender for yourself? What does it really mean? Lust? Passion? Do you promise yourself a escape from your current life situation? Check it. But be careful, what will happen, if you switch to a woman or man. If you live with somebody else talk to her, to him and share this experience.
it was some curiosity, but as well a special demand i had to wear female clothes and actually at this time i was not able to think that how far this will leads me.
2. Just try it. It does not make any sense just to dream about this. You can not learn the experience of gender at home alone. Go out in your other gender. This is not forbidden, there are no reason to blame yourself for it, if it is just a part of you or could be a part of you. But go to locations or events, where you can live your other gender safely. There are many crossdresser, transgender events out there. Just check the typical web sites.
yes this is so true and i did it and i do it. it is just being myself. and it fells wonderful.
3. Now you can feel something of what it means to be a woman or man in the society. The other glance, yes, do you succeed to deceive other people? But what does it mean for you? How did you experienced yourself? What was different to the imagination or illusion you had before?
it was really strange but i liked it.
4. Talk to somebody. Talk about it with your best friends. You nedd support if you continue to walk this way. You need any advice, as well if it hurts. If somebody says you move wrongly is more worthfully as somebody just take it as it is and does not talk about it.
5. Go out as much as you can or want, just be yourself. Accept und do't be disappointed if you are not perceived as a man or woman at once. Boys and girls need years until they become woman or man. Why should it be different for you?
6. Get to know other transgenders. Realize where the problems are and if you thinking about little things. Try to learn from the experience of others.inform yourself about the risks and usage of hormones and about transition.
7. Is it really important for you to continue? Think about the different op-tions you have. There are a lot of different legal regulations. Think about it if the official way of transition fits your demand. But if you say yes, this is absolutely what i want it is time to see a therapist who is specialized in gender issues. But take your time you do not have to decide right now.
8. Does it make sense to you? Do you have doubts? Looking for answers in chatrooms, forums. Contact self help groups, you might find answers for your questions and find ways you can take as a guideline for your-self.
9. Present yourself to your friends. Explain them. It is not necessary that they hear any rumors about you. But don't give them the feeling that they have to judge you.don't be afraid: real friends will accept you. And just be honest you don't have to get along well with everybody. Some people will only needle you with this anyway.
10. Teach yourself to be a woman or man, just one woman, just one man, who you really are. You will realize to find new ways to express your real personality, your true identity. Live it the way you want, but be careful, what is really you and what is a mask you use to survive. Don't take it wrong.to live really your identity you have to get rid of the mask, but be yourself.
11. Good friends are a very important support. But for them it is mostly very difficult to accept you in your new gender and still talk to you as you were just the one you used to be. Others just only seem tolerate your new gender. But help yourself. Find new friends who only knows you with your new name and gender.
12. As a mtf you will spend a lot of time to get the body you want, to re-duce the hair grow at places you do not like at all. There are a lot of possibilities to reduce it.
13. If you start to take hormones and you realize the first changed it is time to give up the hiding. You will present yourself in your new gen-der. You will meet people to whom you had only little contact.some of them won't accept your new gender, some after the transition, some never.but this is not your problem, it is theirs. Do not make it to your own.
14. It is for you almost unacceptable for you to present yourself in your old gender. Start, especially if you really want the transition to pre-pare your employer and colleagues. It is sometimes helpful to change your name to a gender neutral one that anybody takes this changes as real and seriously.
15. At one day you stand in front of a mirror and you see a woman/man. There are no doubts anymore. You are truely you eant to be. It doesn't make a different if other people accept it or not. No matter how you live. You watch yourself and you know this is a woman/man. Nothing can change this anymore adnd questioned it.
In this moment you are truly a woman/man.when ever it happens, after many years or yesterday. You are what you are. But just in another gender.
So far so good.
when i just reflect this on my own there are a lot of important views.
Just for me i
I just want to tell you something else. I was running tonight and afterwards i needed a shower. But before i took the shower i took a shaver and conti-nued to shave me. I really don't like the hairs anymore. It looks so silly. The good thing afterwards my skin is so soft. It is just a good feeling. To wear nylons, a slip and a bra under the usual man clothes. I do this quite often and i really like it. Then i went out for dinner. But to be honest. What i re-ally wanted tonight was to go out as a woman. How many of you have the same feeling, the same desire, the same demand?
The interesting thing is that this comes always when i am alone. Just a bit of strange. Why only when i am alone?
I looking forward for tomorrow afternoon. I am finally back home again and i will go to the post office to pick up three packages. Inside there is a whole set of nails and everything you nedd to wear artifical nails, then my new pink and black leggings, blue and pink shirts and new nylons. When i am at home inwill try all of these and spend the evening as a woman. Maybe i will go out and walk a little bit around.
Thursday, April 3, 2014
The first step is done
Hi everybody,
tonight it was too much. When i returned from work i went running and afterwards i wanted to take a shower but instead i started to shave my arms (my legs are already shaved) and felt so disappointed about at how many places hairs are grown. i do not want them. And after shaving i took a shower and my arms feel so soft, so great. It does make a real difference between to be hairy or not. Then i wanted to go out for dinner and i decided to wear a slip, a nylon and a bra under my shirt and jeans, but all i wanted was to go out as a woman tonight. It was such a strong desire and it is still there. So when i returned from dinner, i needed a cafe.
My female side or just the one i am just started to write a email to the therapist, but only to test if it is really possible to find the correct words to express what i am feeling, what i want. it was so easy. I found the correct words, corrected one or two sentences and i was quite happy with it. So i sent it out.
i will post this later, i just have to translate it into english.
Now i'm feeling really nervous but on the other hand excited, it is just the only way to deal with the whole situation. But right now i think it was the best what i was able to do and i am looking forward to read the answer and to get an appointment.
Does anybody of you dear reader have any experience with therapists?
Thanks to good friends who encouraged me to do this.
More tomorrow, just to let you know.
Simone
tonight it was too much. When i returned from work i went running and afterwards i wanted to take a shower but instead i started to shave my arms (my legs are already shaved) and felt so disappointed about at how many places hairs are grown. i do not want them. And after shaving i took a shower and my arms feel so soft, so great. It does make a real difference between to be hairy or not. Then i wanted to go out for dinner and i decided to wear a slip, a nylon and a bra under my shirt and jeans, but all i wanted was to go out as a woman tonight. It was such a strong desire and it is still there. So when i returned from dinner, i needed a cafe.
My female side or just the one i am just started to write a email to the therapist, but only to test if it is really possible to find the correct words to express what i am feeling, what i want. it was so easy. I found the correct words, corrected one or two sentences and i was quite happy with it. So i sent it out.
i will post this later, i just have to translate it into english.
Now i'm feeling really nervous but on the other hand excited, it is just the only way to deal with the whole situation. But right now i think it was the best what i was able to do and i am looking forward to read the answer and to get an appointment.
Does anybody of you dear reader have any experience with therapists?
Thanks to good friends who encouraged me to do this.
More tomorrow, just to let you know.
Simone
Monday, March 31, 2014
Feelings and its meaning
Feelings and its meaning
I already mentioned that i found two very kind persons here and we started a discussion about feelings, demands, options and more. I just want to present this and add some own remarks on this. I really appreciate if you dear reader, will share your thoughts and write a comment. I assure that i will answer them.
But first of all i just want to write about something else.
I quite often ask myself what this feeling means to feel like a woman, like a man. There are a lot of different explanations, hints, stereotypes etc. but the question is what does it make to feel me as a woman? Is it just to dress up as a woman? No i do not think so. There must be more. We all have stereotypes. My first approach is something i've read in an answer by Heather in a blog and this is absolutely something which i think it fits.
I already wrote about this nice habit to watch women very closely, to study their behavior, their beauty. and then i just say i just wanna be like them. But what does this means in reality? nobody could be someone else. But sometimes i just dream i would be ellen barking in the movie switch. i really love this movie and when i first watched this movie i was fascinated by the story and Ellen Barkin. This blond beauty. And then i just thought what would it mean if this happen to me. Would it be wonderful, would it be like a dream come true?
A further thought. there is a part in the musical dance of the vampires in which Sarah sings that she dreams to be a woman. How often i heard this song and i love it.
Just wonderful dreams. I love the beauty and i take over this beauty to me, to my desire to be a woman.
Maybe it is confusing, it is so confusing for me as well to sort out all this thoughts, this dreams, this illusions, this demands, this pain, the logical thinking.
I know that i ask questions i only can answer for myself, but what does this feelings really mean to me?
I just think about the options i have. and actually i have to decide which of the options i will follow. Just now i identified
- keep it as it is in secret
- integrate few female traits to my characteristic and wear whenever it possible female underwear & crossdressing when i am alone
- live a few days in the year as a woman like this trans woman weekend in may and cross dress as much as possible
- change my wardrobe to more unisex and check the limits
- transition as the last option to be one with myself?
I know that can only be a part of potential options but it helps me to identify what i really want.
Are there other options?
What do you think about my current situation? Are you in the same situation as i am? or have you been in the same situation as i am just now and how did you decide? And are you happy with this decision?
But there is one thing which makes me thinking. Usually my female side comes in waves, for 2 or three weeks and then everything is fine again. it is like that my male side keeps my female side under control. But this time it is so different. My female side just does not want to be taken under control. Just the opposite. I have the feeling that my female side, my true identity wants to repress my male side. This is sometimes very strange. I do not like my hairs on the body so i shaved my legs, my breasts etc. When i go to the restroom i sit down at anytime. It is just that i am not identify with some of my male bodes characteristics and i want to get rid of them. I really love the feeling of nylons on my skin, it is a wonderful feeling.
I'm really curious about how this will continue, what happens next. Sometimes i just wish that everything goes back to my normal male life, but i think this is too late. I have to accept that my female identity is a part of me, a very important part of me and i have to find a way between being male and being female.
But back to the original question: what does it really means to be a woman? it is quite easy to say yes, you have to fill the typical cliches, dress like a woman, behave like a woman. hmm, sounds nice, bit it isn't an answer which satisfied me.
Ok going deeper:
there are some social traits which are linked typically to woman or typically to man. If you are looking for typical female traits you just work with cliches.
I just found a very interesting list of traits in the net:
WORDS COMMONLY USED TO DESCRIBE FEMININITY
dependent --> not me
emotional --> yes absolutely
passive --> not at all
sensitive --> yes i am
quiet --> sometimes
graceful --> yes indeed
innocent --> yes
weak -->sometimes
flirtatious --> sometimes
nurturing --> yes
self-critical --> yes
soft --> yes
sexually submissive
accepting --> yes
touchy --> yes
WORDS COMMONLY USED TO DESCRIBE MASCULINITY
independent --> yes
non-emotional --> no way
aggressive --> no way
tough-skinned --> no way
competitive --> sometimes
clumsy --> not at all
experienced --> yes
strong --> sometimes
active --> yes
self-confident --> yes
hard --> no not at all
sexually aggressive
rebellious -> yes
loud --> no
Clearly, society’s categories for what is masculine and feminine are unrealistic. They may not capture how we truly feel, how we behave, or how we define ourselves. All men have some so-called feminine traits, and all women have some so-called masculine traits. And we may show different traits at different times. Our cultures teach women and men to be the opposite of each other in many ways. The truth is that we are more alike than different.
Androgyny
People who express masculine and feminine traits equally are sometimes called androgynous. Among androgynous people, neither masculine nor feminine traits dominate.
So the result is as i expected i have a few female and a few male traits..great..what does it tell me?
it is just that i identify with female traits more than typical male traits. Sometimes i think this typical male traits are ridiculous. And i don't want them.
it is already late again and i have to go to my bed. I will write more tomorrow and will come back to the comments by Jack and a few further email thoughts i had which i like to share.
Have a great time
Simone
I already mentioned that i found two very kind persons here and we started a discussion about feelings, demands, options and more. I just want to present this and add some own remarks on this. I really appreciate if you dear reader, will share your thoughts and write a comment. I assure that i will answer them.
But first of all i just want to write about something else.
I quite often ask myself what this feeling means to feel like a woman, like a man. There are a lot of different explanations, hints, stereotypes etc. but the question is what does it make to feel me as a woman? Is it just to dress up as a woman? No i do not think so. There must be more. We all have stereotypes. My first approach is something i've read in an answer by Heather in a blog and this is absolutely something which i think it fits.
I already wrote about this nice habit to watch women very closely, to study their behavior, their beauty. and then i just say i just wanna be like them. But what does this means in reality? nobody could be someone else. But sometimes i just dream i would be ellen barking in the movie switch. i really love this movie and when i first watched this movie i was fascinated by the story and Ellen Barkin. This blond beauty. And then i just thought what would it mean if this happen to me. Would it be wonderful, would it be like a dream come true?
A further thought. there is a part in the musical dance of the vampires in which Sarah sings that she dreams to be a woman. How often i heard this song and i love it.
Just wonderful dreams. I love the beauty and i take over this beauty to me, to my desire to be a woman.
Maybe it is confusing, it is so confusing for me as well to sort out all this thoughts, this dreams, this illusions, this demands, this pain, the logical thinking.
I know that i ask questions i only can answer for myself, but what does this feelings really mean to me?
I just think about the options i have. and actually i have to decide which of the options i will follow. Just now i identified
- keep it as it is in secret
- integrate few female traits to my characteristic and wear whenever it possible female underwear & crossdressing when i am alone
- live a few days in the year as a woman like this trans woman weekend in may and cross dress as much as possible
- change my wardrobe to more unisex and check the limits
- transition as the last option to be one with myself?
I know that can only be a part of potential options but it helps me to identify what i really want.
Are there other options?
What do you think about my current situation? Are you in the same situation as i am? or have you been in the same situation as i am just now and how did you decide? And are you happy with this decision?
But there is one thing which makes me thinking. Usually my female side comes in waves, for 2 or three weeks and then everything is fine again. it is like that my male side keeps my female side under control. But this time it is so different. My female side just does not want to be taken under control. Just the opposite. I have the feeling that my female side, my true identity wants to repress my male side. This is sometimes very strange. I do not like my hairs on the body so i shaved my legs, my breasts etc. When i go to the restroom i sit down at anytime. It is just that i am not identify with some of my male bodes characteristics and i want to get rid of them. I really love the feeling of nylons on my skin, it is a wonderful feeling.
I'm really curious about how this will continue, what happens next. Sometimes i just wish that everything goes back to my normal male life, but i think this is too late. I have to accept that my female identity is a part of me, a very important part of me and i have to find a way between being male and being female.
But back to the original question: what does it really means to be a woman? it is quite easy to say yes, you have to fill the typical cliches, dress like a woman, behave like a woman. hmm, sounds nice, bit it isn't an answer which satisfied me.
Ok going deeper:
there are some social traits which are linked typically to woman or typically to man. If you are looking for typical female traits you just work with cliches.
I just found a very interesting list of traits in the net:
WORDS COMMONLY USED TO DESCRIBE FEMININITY
dependent --> not me
emotional --> yes absolutely
passive --> not at all
sensitive --> yes i am
quiet --> sometimes
graceful --> yes indeed
innocent --> yes
weak -->sometimes
flirtatious --> sometimes
nurturing --> yes
self-critical --> yes
soft --> yes
sexually submissive
accepting --> yes
touchy --> yes
WORDS COMMONLY USED TO DESCRIBE MASCULINITY
independent --> yes
non-emotional --> no way
aggressive --> no way
tough-skinned --> no way
competitive --> sometimes
clumsy --> not at all
experienced --> yes
strong --> sometimes
active --> yes
self-confident --> yes
hard --> no not at all
sexually aggressive
rebellious -> yes
loud --> no
Clearly, society’s categories for what is masculine and feminine are unrealistic. They may not capture how we truly feel, how we behave, or how we define ourselves. All men have some so-called feminine traits, and all women have some so-called masculine traits. And we may show different traits at different times. Our cultures teach women and men to be the opposite of each other in many ways. The truth is that we are more alike than different.
Androgyny
People who express masculine and feminine traits equally are sometimes called androgynous. Among androgynous people, neither masculine nor feminine traits dominate.
So the result is as i expected i have a few female and a few male traits..great..what does it tell me?
it is just that i identify with female traits more than typical male traits. Sometimes i think this typical male traits are ridiculous. And i don't want them.
it is already late again and i have to go to my bed. I will write more tomorrow and will come back to the comments by Jack and a few further email thoughts i had which i like to share.
Have a great time
Simone
Another day another thoughts
Yesterday evening i've read an article about the equalization of gender.i know that there are tendencies, especially in bigger cities that the gender should not play a role at all. In many school books the main persons are gay, lesbian, transsexual, single woman with kids, but no traditional family with kids. Furthermore man are presented as weak or as a house man. Hmm, pretty hard stuff. I know that nearly 80% live in classic families and only a minority live the way school books tell us as the common way of living.
I never liked these people, this gender philosophy of equalization. I actually think that it is really important to be the way how somebody feels as a man or woman. I admire women who are looking really female. Women, who dress like a man, ok, i don't think i appreciate this.
There is a study about women, who go the way through transition that in the very first years they dress very female. Yes because, this is my pint of view they are happy to be finally female and want to live this way.
It is the same with me. I love to dress me like a woman, i enjoy it, this is the way i like it.
This evening i saw a woman, she was so pretty. She wore a white pattern rock, a black nylons, a blue jacket. She just looked female. I really like it. And i want to look like her. This is really something i realized the last weeks. I look at women in a different way. I watch how they are dressed, how they behave. Then if i like it i just try to add it in my own way of life. This sounds really silly. Do you have the same experience? How do you think and feel about it?
I never liked these people, this gender philosophy of equalization. I actually think that it is really important to be the way how somebody feels as a man or woman. I admire women who are looking really female. Women, who dress like a man, ok, i don't think i appreciate this.
There is a study about women, who go the way through transition that in the very first years they dress very female. Yes because, this is my pint of view they are happy to be finally female and want to live this way.
It is the same with me. I love to dress me like a woman, i enjoy it, this is the way i like it.
This evening i saw a woman, she was so pretty. She wore a white pattern rock, a black nylons, a blue jacket. She just looked female. I really like it. And i want to look like her. This is really something i realized the last weeks. I look at women in a different way. I watch how they are dressed, how they behave. Then if i like it i just try to add it in my own way of life. This sounds really silly. Do you have the same experience? How do you think and feel about it?
Dreams and demands - a therapist session illusion
I did not write anything the last days. I was quite busy but now i really want to write more again.
It is really strange. When i arrived yesterday evening in my hotel and did my sports, had something for dinner all i was thinking about was to change my clothes to female looking. A bra, a slip, a pink short rock, a nice red shirt, a brown wig, my favorite high heels, black, with 10cm. I felt so good.
So i spent the evening in my favorite clothes and all i wanted was to be this way the whole time.
I actually thinking about to go to a therapist and i'm thinking about how to contact her. In my dreams i wrote her a few impressions of what i feel, of what i am looking for. And her reaction that she offers me an appointment.
The next thing is how this appointment will be. I have already a few ideas how this appointment will be and what i will say. But the very first thing is how i will dress myself that day as a woman.
In the last years i bought different sizes of silicon breasts and i really love the big ones, but i guess for such a appointment the smaller ones (size b) will be ok. But what would i wear? I've ordered yesterday a few leggings (pink, black), a few shirts. So i dreamed about wearing a pink shirt, my black leggings, a night blue rock and black high heels but with a low heel. I dreamed about doing a perfect decent make up and a red brown wig. I would look really good and i would love me the way i look.
So i went to the therapists, being really nervous. Then i would enter the door, saying to the receptionist that i have an appointment.
After a short while i would call out and enter the room and i would become more nervous. Then i would say hi and just starting a short story of my life. How i found out my female side, how i feel when i starting to wear female clothes, my first coming out as a woman in public. And that in the last month the feeling that something changed grew up, this waves which became stronger. My thoughts about playing a role as a man. I already mentioned that i do not feel so well playing this role. I would tell her everything about this feelings to play a wrong role, that deep in my soul in my heart i want to be just the one who i really am. That i dream and want to be a woman, just being myself.
But that i'm afraid of the reaction of my family, friends, customers, my whole life. I guess nobody knows about this side of me.
We would talking about options, about possibilities to live with my female and male side. About what transition would mean for me, for my life. When i lay in my bed in the morning and thinking about this this would be fantastic, that would be everything i am looking for. Her reaction would be that she understands my fears but there will be always a way to find the way to the real ego, if it is female or male. She would suggest that after she heard the whole story that i am a real candidate for transition. That she would recommend me to test to live as a woman for 12 month and then if i feel that i am really happy as a woman i should continue this way. And she strongly recommend to meet each other regularly.
But then i realize that it is easier to dream about but maybe it is just an illusion.
It is just a freaky situation.
It is really strange. When i arrived yesterday evening in my hotel and did my sports, had something for dinner all i was thinking about was to change my clothes to female looking. A bra, a slip, a pink short rock, a nice red shirt, a brown wig, my favorite high heels, black, with 10cm. I felt so good.
So i spent the evening in my favorite clothes and all i wanted was to be this way the whole time.
I actually thinking about to go to a therapist and i'm thinking about how to contact her. In my dreams i wrote her a few impressions of what i feel, of what i am looking for. And her reaction that she offers me an appointment.
The next thing is how this appointment will be. I have already a few ideas how this appointment will be and what i will say. But the very first thing is how i will dress myself that day as a woman.
In the last years i bought different sizes of silicon breasts and i really love the big ones, but i guess for such a appointment the smaller ones (size b) will be ok. But what would i wear? I've ordered yesterday a few leggings (pink, black), a few shirts. So i dreamed about wearing a pink shirt, my black leggings, a night blue rock and black high heels but with a low heel. I dreamed about doing a perfect decent make up and a red brown wig. I would look really good and i would love me the way i look.
So i went to the therapists, being really nervous. Then i would enter the door, saying to the receptionist that i have an appointment.
After a short while i would call out and enter the room and i would become more nervous. Then i would say hi and just starting a short story of my life. How i found out my female side, how i feel when i starting to wear female clothes, my first coming out as a woman in public. And that in the last month the feeling that something changed grew up, this waves which became stronger. My thoughts about playing a role as a man. I already mentioned that i do not feel so well playing this role. I would tell her everything about this feelings to play a wrong role, that deep in my soul in my heart i want to be just the one who i really am. That i dream and want to be a woman, just being myself.
But that i'm afraid of the reaction of my family, friends, customers, my whole life. I guess nobody knows about this side of me.
We would talking about options, about possibilities to live with my female and male side. About what transition would mean for me, for my life. When i lay in my bed in the morning and thinking about this this would be fantastic, that would be everything i am looking for. Her reaction would be that she understands my fears but there will be always a way to find the way to the real ego, if it is female or male. She would suggest that after she heard the whole story that i am a real candidate for transition. That she would recommend me to test to live as a woman for 12 month and then if i feel that i am really happy as a woman i should continue this way. And she strongly recommend to meet each other regularly.
But then i realize that it is easier to dream about but maybe it is just an illusion.
It is just a freaky situation.
Learned vs. innate - a discussion
Learned vs. innate - a discussion
A friend of mine, she decided to go for transition and is very happy now, asked me about what the source of my feelings are. Is it a learned behavior or innate? I think i mentioned it already. Yesterday evening she sent me a very impressive documentation about the psychologic basics and how psychologist deal with this.
Furthermore she asked me a lot of further questions about what i wrote and what i feel and this is so interesting.
But first of all i just want to tell you what happened the last two days.
I told you that i have the feeling that all this feelings are coming in waves and the waves are getting stronger and stronger from time to time. It is a very new experience for me and i really don't know how to deal with it. But i already have some ideas and i'm working on this.
I've contacted a self help group and they recommended a project, which takes care about transgender people. They offer a lot of services as make up, styling, how to move, talk and behave as a woman and they offer a weekend as a woman in may. This is such a great thing. I already wrote an email to them that i like to participate at this weekend. I really looking forward for this weekend and just live as a woman i want to be? I think this weekend will show what it means to be a woman all day long. Will i enjoy this? Is it really all what i am looking for so badly? What i daydreaming about?
And if it is really that i feel my woman in me so strong and do i have real problems to switch to my normal live as a man and i actually want to be a woman then i will go to a therapists and talk to her about this. I already found a specialized gender therapist near my home and i almost contacted her last weekend.
If i do not enjoy it (to be honest i do not think this will happen at all, i know me) then i think that the category of crossdreamer will be the correct definition for me.
But as everything in life nothing is only black or only white. It could be any stage within and then? What should i do then?
Right now my mood is changing from hour to hour sometimes everything is fine, sometimes i feel just bad about this and want to stop it right now and sometimes i just feeling ugly to be a man. Isn't it strange? Is it the normal process of finding the true identity?
But what does this means? I already wrote about this learned vs innate and now i just want to describe in my own words what is about.
The definition if innate is existing from birth, inborn. So usually if you are born as a woman you are female and if you are a man you are male. Quite easy to understand.
Learned means that behavior is learned from an external stimulus. In the way of transsexuality the assumption is that it was learned because of some circumstances, learned as a reaction of something happened in their environment. Then the psychology says if you can learn something it must be possible to unlearn it again. The result was that this can be cured by any therapy.
Psychologists continued to working on this and found out that it was not successful and so they started to analyze the patients and found out that they are healthy person and this behavior is caused by psychological reasons.
So the common understanding is that gender identity issues are not generally learned behavior, but some innate structure of the brain which these individuals are born with and must be coping behavior to deal with the inherent confusion it causes.
This is quite interesting. I think it is a combination of both, but i do have some doubts. It is obvious that because of hormones and other biological indicators in every man there a female parts as well in the opposite direction. So there are a lot of man having more female hormones than the average and does have female traits as well on the other hand there are woman having more male hormones than the average and so they are looking more than a man.
I just want to quote the asian theory of yin and yan as well as the theory of a human being could have more than one gender and the differentiation just between woman and man are just seeing black and white and not all the different grays beside.
Hmm what should i think about this? And does it explain my feelings?
A friend of mine, she decided to go for transition and is very happy now, asked me about what the source of my feelings are. Is it a learned behavior or innate? I think i mentioned it already. Yesterday evening she sent me a very impressive documentation about the psychologic basics and how psychologist deal with this.
Furthermore she asked me a lot of further questions about what i wrote and what i feel and this is so interesting.
But first of all i just want to tell you what happened the last two days.
I told you that i have the feeling that all this feelings are coming in waves and the waves are getting stronger and stronger from time to time. It is a very new experience for me and i really don't know how to deal with it. But i already have some ideas and i'm working on this.
I've contacted a self help group and they recommended a project, which takes care about transgender people. They offer a lot of services as make up, styling, how to move, talk and behave as a woman and they offer a weekend as a woman in may. This is such a great thing. I already wrote an email to them that i like to participate at this weekend. I really looking forward for this weekend and just live as a woman i want to be? I think this weekend will show what it means to be a woman all day long. Will i enjoy this? Is it really all what i am looking for so badly? What i daydreaming about?
And if it is really that i feel my woman in me so strong and do i have real problems to switch to my normal live as a man and i actually want to be a woman then i will go to a therapists and talk to her about this. I already found a specialized gender therapist near my home and i almost contacted her last weekend.
If i do not enjoy it (to be honest i do not think this will happen at all, i know me) then i think that the category of crossdreamer will be the correct definition for me.
But as everything in life nothing is only black or only white. It could be any stage within and then? What should i do then?
Right now my mood is changing from hour to hour sometimes everything is fine, sometimes i feel just bad about this and want to stop it right now and sometimes i just feeling ugly to be a man. Isn't it strange? Is it the normal process of finding the true identity?
But what does this means? I already wrote about this learned vs innate and now i just want to describe in my own words what is about.
The definition if innate is existing from birth, inborn. So usually if you are born as a woman you are female and if you are a man you are male. Quite easy to understand.
Learned means that behavior is learned from an external stimulus. In the way of transsexuality the assumption is that it was learned because of some circumstances, learned as a reaction of something happened in their environment. Then the psychology says if you can learn something it must be possible to unlearn it again. The result was that this can be cured by any therapy.
Psychologists continued to working on this and found out that it was not successful and so they started to analyze the patients and found out that they are healthy person and this behavior is caused by psychological reasons.
So the common understanding is that gender identity issues are not generally learned behavior, but some innate structure of the brain which these individuals are born with and must be coping behavior to deal with the inherent confusion it causes.
This is quite interesting. I think it is a combination of both, but i do have some doubts. It is obvious that because of hormones and other biological indicators in every man there a female parts as well in the opposite direction. So there are a lot of man having more female hormones than the average and does have female traits as well on the other hand there are woman having more male hormones than the average and so they are looking more than a man.
I just want to quote the asian theory of yin and yan as well as the theory of a human being could have more than one gender and the differentiation just between woman and man are just seeing black and white and not all the different grays beside.
Hmm what should i think about this? And does it explain my feelings?
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