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[coniferous_you]

Hey all,

I'm new to this whole LJ thing, but I've been lurking around for awhile --- so bear with me. I've just got a question --- and figured this would be an appropriate place to ask it. Anyway, I'm currently experiencing some incredibly intrusive gender dysphoria, whereas I haven't really before. Although, ever since I was a child, I always saw myself, in my mind's eye, as female. For the most part I just lived with it, but now it seems my body is finally starting to rebel against me. Facial hair, receding(but not really?) hairline, broadening shoulders, etc. It seems I can't just take my idealistic view that I am simply more androgynous than other girls or something. Ah. Enough rambling. My question, I suppose, is this --- did any of you recognize very early that you were transgendered but didn't have the body dysphoria set in until during/post puberty? I apologize for the length, perhaps the nonsensical quality of this question, but, as it stands, I am very confused.

*Phew*

Thanks,
Elena.

The New Goddess finally available from borders.com

[ftmichael.livejournal.com]

From an E-mail. Please cross-post as appropriate.

It is with great pleasure that I announce that FINALLY The New Goddess: Transgender Women in the Twenty-First Century is available for purchase. It was posted today at http://www.borders.com/ . The book is $19.95 and I think a must for every Transgender person on the planet. Also I recommend it to all sociology, anthropology, women's studies, gender studies, sexuality, and counseling departments.

Minor But Interesting Aspect of Gender Dysphoria

[shelleybear.livejournal.com]

Have any of you found your speech patterns changing?
The words you use? How you say them or the physical actions that go with them?
I am finding myself having to be increasingly careful about how I respond in public.
Even more interesting. Times I could be just sitting around and how I see the world will just "shift" in ways that I can't begin to explain. If the eyes are the windows of the soul my soul shifts, that MIGHT be a good way to describe it.
Anyway, just curious.

Shelley