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 personally wish that some people would understand that this is who I have always been, and that I’ve just finally gotten up the nerve to be myself after 40+ years.
When the question was first presented I didn’t think there was anything I needed to have understood about me; I was content. But then there was a disturbing incident with a religious fanatic which caused a sensation in one of my social circles. Fortunately it provoked a large outpouring of support for me, very heartwarming. Anyway, now I wish that the extreme religious community would learn to put things in their proper proportion, and not just cherry-pick biblical excuses to put down others. So, I guess we all have social interactions that can be improved…
Joan
i completely agree. :3 it is hardest for us in the strict areas of religious doom sayers. (the ones who end up saying we are in the hands of satan and such.) but not all of us worship satan…
i mean i kinda worship various gods and goddesses that even puts satan as the nice guy. but still the god yehweh is not the god ialdaboath. yehweh did all those crazy destructive things in the old testiment, while ialdoboath created things, (but that doesn’t have to be your belief.)
:3 i did enjoy being called a antichrist. a few times by my baptist uncle while listening to metal. but really sometimes they are more concerned with normality and tradition.
yet what irks me is when they try and use the new testiment strategy on me. by far there are some passages that would get crucified for starting my own cult.
beyond that i am a stoic discordian. 😉
I don’t want them to know at all. When Amanda exists I leave my old life behind. It is absolutely escapism but no different than anything else. Amanda is the woman I wish I could meet in real life. Amanda has closer friends and more meaningful conversations. She is fun and people that know her like her for her. Men and women. Amanda is too good for me. Why would I introduce her to my family? Besides, it helps me keep Amanda pure if she and I are separate in this world. We keep each other secret. Somehow it makes both of us feel better about the other. But that’s just me.
Amanda, :3 there will be some people who will treat you as the old you.
my family whom i live with still call me by that name they gave me. it got to the point i stopped caring and reverted.
but i still do it covertly. yet for me it is quite a challege to have the luxory of leaving the house looking too femme… due to various reasons. (yes i came out in the end of 2009.) (i would love to be at your stage. where i can go out with enough confidence and no fear of returning home without seeing my clothes on the lawn.)
:O wait i promised my self not to say sad stories to y’all.
i really wanna get more courage again though. since the only things i know are anime, making musick, and magick. only one of them would make me money.
I would to just dress and go out the trouble is don’t except you got what you are it’s easier to dress in private
I wish everyone knew what it was like to be trapped inside your own skin. I wish everyone knew what was like to be inside an eternal prison that you knew there was no escape. I wish everyone knew the claustrophobia of seeing yourself in the mirror and not recognizing the person staring back at you. I wish everyone knew the cost of trying to have peace, the loss of loved ones, family, children, friends, jobs. I wish everyone knew the pain of being Transgender.
I wish people would just accept that I’m an everyday woman in the everyday world . I’m not bound by the TG label as so many others are . Every day society has been so warm and embracing yet our own community is so constrictive and clingy !
Hi there, I really see myself as wanting to go completely gender fluid and just see where it takes me, thats the ultimate goal for this year, been coming on here for a while now off and on but this time I am defo going to take a conscious step and make what I want happen.
I have in many senses already started but I don’t want to keep repeating myself so I am pushing myself and it’s great.
I want to socialize with other transgender women and understanding lesbains wimen who is willing to help transform me into becoming really the woman of my dream. I want them to be my mistress and train me to be the woman of my dream. I am ready to come out of the closet now. I want to be a transgender woman now. Please help me ?
I would just like that our desire to dress as women was a totally acceptable way to present ourselves to the world. We must be one of the last groups to be recognised.
Caroline cd
Carolina B.
Hey! ! We older Broads have to keep these young ones in line!
You look Fabulous!
At 71 I need your opinions, be kind, but honest. ..T.J.
That 50 shades of gray applies to gender too – the world is not black and white, and all people are not just pure male or pure female. And I am one of those who are gray. I am not a typical male, I am not a typical female, I am just me – and I want to be accepted for what I am, a femandrogyne. And I wish people could understand that my desires and attempts to grow an A cup is nothing sick or pervert, but something I need to feel complete.
I really see gender identity as a spectrum, then within that spectrum I am right in the middle as I feel I am right now and would be more than happy to call myself just me.
I am a male above 50 years but I am really proud of of shape and outward appearance as almost a perfect woman. I have large natural breasts with perky nipples. I have been wearing 42″ D cup bra for last several years in private and public. I cannot container my breasts without proper bra as my breasts are very large. I wear Tshirt most of the time and any one can easily see my big breasts. Iam not ashmed of my breasts in fact I am very proud of it.
I really feel the same way. I love to crossdress as a woman. Women garments really feels great on.my body. I love to go to the movies, and while there. They treat and take me as a woman. That just makes me feel even great, being accepted as a woman. I love being a woman.