brief intro/help

[pulling-focus.livejournal.com]

Hi my name is Ty, I'm 23, and I don't know what I am anymore. I created Ty as a manifestation of my male self, which I cannot be all the time, because I am biologically female and people in the world outside the Internet know me as a bio girl who dresses somewhat like a little boy. I have started playing again with the possibility of expanding upon Ty as an identity and adapting him more but I am afraid. I do not want to transition to be completely male but I know that I do not feel 100% female either and things have never felt right unless I'm at a moment where I can just kinda drift in the middle. I worry immensely about what other people will think, especially my family and my co-workers. I feel like I am too old to go through this stuff but a little part of me wishes I could go through life as a male. PLEASE HELP ME! I hit these points in my life where I start thinking about this stuff and I always convince myself it is a phase but it has happened so many times. I feel trapped.

Flamewar between GenderSupport and Sane Folks

[justanormalgirl.livejournal.com]

EDIT: I talked to Kristin a long time today. She would like to say that she does not condone what steviejayne said. She has de-opped her and has said that anyone who uses the word "shemale" or related will be banned. She apologized in her LJ last month for anti-non-op comments she had made: link (this post was previously friends-only so I didn't see it). She clarified that GenderSupport is only for those looking to discuss genital surgery-related information and thus it is inappropriate for non-ops. She said that she does not consider non-ops men.

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Today I learned about a group called GenderSupport that recently split off of TSSupport led by kgalway in order to distinguish themselves from non-ops (who they call "shemales" and "men"). So I decided to have some fun, I didn't have to wait long...

(The main points are in bold.)

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