not filtered because i'm pretty sure. . .

[zen_pop_culture]

. . .that everyone on my friends list knows about The Tran by now. as in, i am FTM. a transgendered guy. transman. whatever you want to call it--assigned female at birth due to the appearance of my junk. said junk contained gonads that mass-produced estrogen that gave me some pretty prominent woman-type characteristics (anyone who has ever seen my

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[loadhan]

"my voice has pretty much changed, though i still sound like a woman over the phone sometimes"

Yeah, I get that often too. And I'm still mistaken in person sometimes. :p

But I'm glad you can make yourself into what you want to be and thus be happy. :)

[zen_pop_culture]

thanks, pal.

yeah, it's interesting--sometimes i remind myself that it's not only transmen who are mistaken for women (or transwomen who are mistaken for men). people just have really, really silly predilections about columns A and B, and those of us who aren't 100% whatever get flak for it.

though, have you noticed that people feel really stupid when you correct them, and they apologize profusely? ("oh no! i called him a WOMAN! what an insult, an inferior woman!!")

[loadhan]

Actually... I don't think they often apologize to me about it. Or when they do they do it jokingly. Sometimes I think the tone is "Oops, but can you blame me with your long hair and all?" Maybe I'm just reading too much into it. I'm usually not offended... sometimes annoyaed... sometimes more annoyed at my friends who will have to bring it up seconds later as if I hadn't heard it before. :P

[zen_pop_culture]

the hair thing is a good point. like, it probably is the reason most people mistake you for a woman, and at any rate it's a nice ass-covering (no pun intended.) with me, they don't really know what to say, though some people will admit it's because i'm short/look really young. (one server at a Denny's told me, "honey, i didn't think a guy could be as pretty as you." blush. :))

[honey_doomelon]

I read this after I replied to your post in wrongbathroom. I just thought it was interesting that 5 minutes later I read an echo of it (though written previously) in your own words. I am one of those not-trans queers mistaken for the "opposite" (as if there are only two piles of people) sex.

[honey_doomelon]

I mean, after I replied to YOUR reply to MY post in wrongbathroom.

oops.