GenderTalk

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"I'm a transgendered guy in my 20's who started transitioning at the beginning of this year. I'd say that I pass with strangers & acquaintances approximately 50% of the time at present and while that bugs me, I take a certain amount of pride in walking a difficult, in-between places kind of line. I am forced never to relax when it comes to gender - and while sometimes I fantasize about taking T, I'm really conflicted about the notion of assimilating into a comfortably gendered biological appearance. I feel a guilty imperative to be okay with my unaltered body, even though I'm not - since I know that it's only in the gaze of people who don't respectfully understand what it means to be a transguy that my female biology bugs me out. And it isn't it precisely those people we're trying to change? When I do pass, it's often as a pretty young guy - say 15 or 16 - which gets to be strangely humiliating. I manage fine, but I'm concerned about what will happen when I get a bit older and my face ages a bit - and my voice stays the way it is, and my frame stays skinny, not very tall, and slight. I guess I feel kind of forced to consider T more seriously than in many ways I want to, just in order to pass. I can't stay a 'boy' in the gaze of people who don't know I'm trans forever, and after all, I'm not sure I'd want to. Any advice?"
(From: Teht)

• Visit the Fantasia Fair website at www.fantasiafair.org
• Visit Transgender Tapestry Magazine publisher IFGE's website at www.ifge.org
• Write to IFGE at PO Box 540229, Waltham, ma 02254
• Call IFGE at 781-899-2212

• Visit the website for Getting Bi
• Visit the Bisexual Resource Center website at www.biresource.org
• Buy a copy of Getting Bi (supports GenderTalk)