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- From: scg@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Kelly Martin)
- Newsgroups: alt.transgendered
- Subject: Re: Tough questions.
- Message-ID: <SCG.92Nov15153606@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 20:36:06 GMT
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- Organization: Gender Anarchists United
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- In-Reply-To: hackbod@xanth.CS.ORST.EDU's message of 15 Nov 92 06:30:40 GMT
-
- hackbod@xanth.CS.ORST.EDU (Dianne Hackborn) writes:
-
- >scg@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Kelly), in reply to me, writes:
-
- >>My, this sounds familiar....
-
- >.....
-
- >>Oh, dear. This is sounding even more familiar...
-
- >You mean.... you mean...... I'm not totally weird and strange and
- >atypical and unordinary and queer and odd and peculiar and
- >bizarre????
-
- Oh, definitely. So am I. I'm damn proud of being weird, strange,
- atypical, unordinary, queer, odd, peculiar, and bizarre. Must be my
- Sun in Aquarius. :)
-
- >Drat. ;)
-
- >>>And I don't know if I can say that I _hate_ my genetalia... But I
- >>>know that I don't want them how they are, and _wanting_ to pay
- >>>$10,000 to have them fixed probably requires quite a bit of dislike.
- >>>:)
- >>
- >>Well, I don't really hate them; I just don't think they really belong
- >>there. It's not their fault, after all. :)
-
- >Oh yeah, but what else am I going to blame it all on? I don't
- >believe in Ghod and haven't yet found a higher power who will answer
- >for all of this. Maybe there was a surplus of male genitals when I
- >was born and they decided to try hooking on to me, thinking I
- >wouldn't notice. ;)
-
- Blame your father for making the wrong type of sperm that day.
- Better yet, blame his Y sperm for beating out the X sperm in teh grand
- battle for the egg.
-
- >>Unfortuantely, the psychiatric establishment often makes you do so if
- >>you want do anything about it. :(
-
- >I haven't really encountered that. I first started seeing a
- >psychologist while I was home this summer, and I told her up front
- >that the main reason I was seeing her was because that's what you
- >need to do to get approval for hormones, etc. She never made me feel
- >like I had anthing to prove and allowed to me talk freely about all
- >of the doubts and questions I had. [And don't get the wrong
- >impression about my saying that I was mostly seeing her to get
- >approval -- I had a LOT of doubts and questions. :)]
-
- I'm tempted to take this tack when I go in for counseling (Nov.
- 24th).... at this point I have pretty much accepted the fact that I
- am TS and nearly need to determine now what I am going to do about it.
-
- >Actually, when I first started seeing her I told her I was planning
- >on transitioning during Spring break... then we started talking about
- >doing it at Christmas break. However, I realized in a little while
- >that it would just be too soon and told her that I would rather wait
- >until spring. She replied that that was fine, but if I later decided
- >to wait until summer, "we would have to have a _serious_ talk." :)
-
- I want to transition soon (the target I had was May of 1993), but my
- wife is insisting on a gradual process... so it might be a few years
- before I can.
-
- >>*sigh* You and I sound almost exactly alike.... I'm also sub and
- >>fetishistic (unfulfilled, for the most part, grumble; money reasons,
- >>mostly), as well as bi. And I am most probably TS.
-
- >Darn money... But one day, I promise, I will own a corset. ;)
-
- Ooooh, don't tempt me. :)
-
- >>Oh well. I just had to reply because I felt such a connection to
- >>Dianne I couldn't let it go by unsaid. Long lost sister, maybe?
- >>*grin*
-
- >Perhaps, sis. :) *hug*
-
- You too. *hugs* Too bad you're too far away for real ones. :(
-
- Kelly
- --
- Intolerance is not a lion. It's a weasel.
- -- Dean Kaflowitz (decay@cbnewsj.cb.att.com), talk.abortion
-