My brother told me the other day that I would never be a guy because:

A) I didn't spit, cuss and gamble
B) I had never been a guy so how could I know how to do it or what it was like

I tried to tell him that I wouldn't change just because I was on testosterone or having top surgery. I tried to explain that I want to be a 'good guy' I want to be myself ( Read more... )

ok, so alot of us smoke cigarettes, right? well until 8 days ago, I did also. I wish I could say I quit for top surgery coming soon, but, thats not it. the misses and I woke up and decided to buy nicorette gum instead of a carton of smokes. so for all those out there that talk about picking a date. and blah blah blah, not necesary! so to the ( Read more... )

Before T I tried to "act" more masculine to pass. Now I find myself restricting behavior that would make other guys think I'm gay(because I don't want hetero guys to feel uncomfortable around me not because I have a problem with gay people ( Read more... )

I'm kind of embarrassed to ask this, but I'm not really good at reading/understanding social cues, so forgive my ignorance ( Read more... )

So a friend of mine talked about how she's been avoiding strait men because she doesn't want unwanted attention(being hit on, that kind of stuff ( Read more... )

ok guys, something that I've noticed in the 2 years and change on T, my tastes have changed. the best example I can think of is, prior to T, I hated chocolate, now I can't seem to get enough of it! And certain foods that I loved before, I can't tolerate anymore. anyone else experience this, or similar to this?

I was thinking about a post someone had made in tranny_rage about how someone was like "I'm okay with you being trans as long as you don't try to bang me ( Read more... )

I'm finding that as I am farther along in my transition, I a more apathetic about social injustice. I think it's mostly because I figure I've gotten a chance to fix my biggest problem in life, thus don't feel the need to raise a fuss on behalf of everyone I presume to be as miserable as I once was. I am also about to turn 25 in a couple of weeks ( Read more... )

I was thinking about my experience with school, I've graduated now, and how I see my school experience has changed since coming out to myself. It's interesting to me now to see how being trans made me a sort of exception to the proverbial school food chain. In my school the order was popular kids/jocks, then the punks and skaters, then the average ( Read more... )

I've had some really weird experiences recently. I consider myself chivalrous, or a gentleman, and apparently have been coming across as fairly misogynist. Typically, especially when I was still female-identified, I always paid on the first date, and paid a fair amount later too, opened doors for my date and others compulsively, even when dating a ( Read more... )