Public service announcement.

[aumentou]

Further to the last public service announcement, I have this to add:

Having done a lot of thinking and nine months of testing, I'm certain. This is the way forward. I'm changing sex.

Anybody with any questions, you may as well ask them now. Two that I anticipate are "are you having a wake?" and "why?".

To take the easy one first, no I am not planning on having a wake for my former identity. I understand why people might do that, but I'd find it creepy because I'm still alive and have the same memories. In fact, from in here I feel like the same person. Just less repressed, and less depressed.

As for why? Well, it's like this: my brain believes I'm female. And it always has. This causes a certain amount of difficulty when it's presented with evidence that the body it inhabits is not. This is often referred to as gender dysphoria, which you can look up, though what I'd say and what a textbook would say about it will likely differ slightly. It's a pain, and, for me, this is the way to fix it. Yes, it's a pretty drastic solution. But it's a serious enough problem to make it necessary.

Regards,

Isabelle.

Comments

[ms-rivet.livejournal.com]

It took me less than a day to get used to the idea but then maybe the people I hang round with here in Manchester have made me even more accepting than I used to be. I do think we get on better now than we used to but even if we didn't the most important thing to me is that my friends are happy.
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