Crossdressing and Transgender Issues
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Crossdressing and Transgender Issues
| Sun, 11-11-2012 - 2:02pm |
I'm new here and would be happy to offer advice regarding gender identity issues that may threaten your relationship.
Now in my early seventies, I've been aware of my transgender status on some level since the age of six. It took a very long time and a great deal of study to understand and come to terms with the person I feel I am.
Having been very happily married for decades to an understanding woman, I consider myself fortunate to have escaped the sad fate that awaits a large percentage of my kind in our society. I've published a book that I hope will be helpful to others who suffer because of a mismatch between the genders of their bodies and their minds.
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It's unfortunate there is a stigma still attached to so many things. For instance, I have clinical depression, which is actually a mental illness, so I'm reluctant to let people know I HAVE the problem for fear they'll start to look at me sideways, even though a zillion others have the very same condition. Good for you if you have your head on straight about it, better late than never!
Kudos to you for taking a very difficult life condition and turning it into something positive : ) We can choose what we say and what we do, but we cannot choose who we are and the world would be so much more interesting if everyone embraced their individuality and so much more pleasing if everyone could accept others without judgement. It's disturbing that many wonderful people have taken their own lives because of unnecessary shame and isolation. Good luck in all you do. Your efforts are bound to help more than one person but if even one life is enhanced or saved, you've made a huge impact in our world.