Do you feel like you don’t fit into traditional gender norms?
Whether you’re a crossdresser, a transgender woman, or someone who embraces a different gender identity, one thing is clear: society still has a lot to learn about gender non-conforming people.
Do you agree? If so, let’s talk about it!
What do you wish people understood about you?
Whether it’s the people closest to you or the world at large, what message would you like to share?
The more voices and perspectives out there, the more others will hopefully begin to understand.
I’d love to hear from you, so please share in the comments below!
Love,
Lucille
I wish that people understood that I am not one dimensional. Most that I know only want to see my male dimension and ignore the femm dimension that has been there since I was a child. I have long ago come to terms that I slide along the gender scale in my behaviors and actions, but people only acknowledge what they want to see, not the other part of me.
I wish more people would accept us for being who we are without discrimination.I am just a person trying my best,just like everyone else. Making my life as comfortable as it can be. I am not ashamed of dressing like a woman,it’s me.
I find that the feeling of acceptance really does start at home with the family. I grew up in a family of criticism. I knew as a young boy that my inner feelings were female. I loved dressing up in my mom’s cloths and putting on some bright red lipstick. Eye liner etc. I am an older cross-dresser and I still find myself dressing up and not being able to go out in public from fear of criticism. I have really deep admiration for transgendered people. Someday maybe.
It always surprises me to realize the separation within the LBGT “community” .A lot of gay Women & Men also have a hard time recognizing the different levels of “T”. Take for instance a recent movie release The Danish Girl.People are up in arms about a straight man playing a curtain role who is portraying a will be trans individual who really has love for his-she’s female wife. Others are currently calling out his Woman as perhaps being Gay because she, as an artist, painted some females apparently with other females in a some of her works. Sure the born Male character apparently goes on to purse a life as predominantly Female,yet the two born Female and Male (biologically) pocess an inter soul love connection. It is something that Heterosexual & Homosexual Men and Women often can’t or choose not to understand.
The Activists Community likes to include many when it’s politically convenient (LGBT), but some continue to draw black & white lines only further dividing “Man Kind”.
Let us not in the Season of the Recognition of Christ birth alienate each other, rather choose to accept him as our Saviour who came for us all and promises to return for us again!
These are my wishes & realities. My prayer is they are all of ours.
Ashley Brooks
hi I want people to know I need help I have just come out to my wife that I have secretly crossdressed for years since I was young she has understood fully and is fine with it which makes me happy as I have always had to hide it and make sure I was looking acting everything s man is “supposed” to do. I Need Help from someone to tutor me in every aspect as to make me look how I’m supposed to look with wig makeup etc so I can then learn how to do it right myself I am genuine and need someone’s help.
I wish people would understand that no matter how I’m dressed on the outside, I’m still the same person on the inside. I have no desire to embarrass anyone or make others uncomfortable by presenting as a female–I just want the ability to be myself, be accepted for who I am and wear what I want, when I want.
Passing in public is no problem. What is the problem is those who haven’t disowned, or acknowledged the new me, get perverse pleasure playing head games. I thought that when I became an adult, that the petty games and other crap would stop. Silly me, guess I was wrong. Getting very tired of it.
I really wouldn’t change anything I have had no trouble going out shopping to dinner go anyplace I like and just feel and act as I belong there people have been great get many compliments and a lot of women want to know how I can walk and wear hi heels all day without any problems , many compliments about my legs.. I love being a girl