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transHello,
Well reading some of the other posts here and the positive responses has inspired me to make a post here. I have been looking for some supportive friends who have either already gone through MTF SRS and transition and those who are anywhere along the path.
I am 26 yrs old and work in a cable company on the phones durring the graveyard shift. I grew up with just my mother and her girlfriends and always fit in. Had some bad experiences with male family members and very early in my life began to hate who I was. I didnt know what it was, but something was never right. Then I ended up with a step-dad who constantly made fun of me for the feminine things I did and constantly ridiculed me. After that I learned to hide most of it though I failed miserably on alot of things but they were masked by the fact I was a computer geek who was expected to be a "wuss" as its put.
A few times along my life I have questioned my gender identity but was very uninformed on what it meant or what options were out there. I just knew that I would have been much happier if I had just been a girl. But quickly I hid these feelings as I knew they would make things even worse then they were. Well about 6-8 months ago I started researching things online and even talked to a few of my close friends about it and about how I felt. Amazingly those I talked to about it were very supportive of me but yet I still swept it back under the carpet out of fear of loosing my job and the few other friends I have. Well just the other day there was a documentary on the discovery channel so I asked my girlfriend if we could watch it (without even really thinking of what I was doing) and so that sparked alot of discussion. She says she loves me very much but she doesnt know how she could take it. She says she wants to be with a man and that she wants to have kids and stuff so I swept it back under the carpet. But I really dont want to. I want to go somewhere with it. I hate being stuck but I just dont know how or what to do.
Well now that I have probably bored you all to death I will let you go hope to hear from some of you soon.
Luv,
Alexis
Well reading some of the other posts here and the positive responses has inspired me to make a post here. I have been looking for some supportive friends who have either already gone through MTF SRS and transition and those who are anywhere along the path.
I am 26 yrs old and work in a cable company on the phones durring the graveyard shift. I grew up with just my mother and her girlfriends and always fit in. Had some bad experiences with male family members and very early in my life began to hate who I was. I didnt know what it was, but something was never right. Then I ended up with a step-dad who constantly made fun of me for the feminine things I did and constantly ridiculed me. After that I learned to hide most of it though I failed miserably on alot of things but they were masked by the fact I was a computer geek who was expected to be a "wuss" as its put.
A few times along my life I have questioned my gender identity but was very uninformed on what it meant or what options were out there. I just knew that I would have been much happier if I had just been a girl. But quickly I hid these feelings as I knew they would make things even worse then they were. Well about 6-8 months ago I started researching things online and even talked to a few of my close friends about it and about how I felt. Amazingly those I talked to about it were very supportive of me but yet I still swept it back under the carpet out of fear of loosing my job and the few other friends I have. Well just the other day there was a documentary on the discovery channel so I asked my girlfriend if we could watch it (without even really thinking of what I was doing) and so that sparked alot of discussion. She says she loves me very much but she doesnt know how she could take it. She says she wants to be with a man and that she wants to have kids and stuff so I swept it back under the carpet. But I really dont want to. I want to go somewhere with it. I hate being stuck but I just dont know how or what to do.
Well now that I have probably bored you all to death I will let you go hope to hear from some of you soon.
Luv,
Alexis
