[Miranda-nata-est]

The reality of the situation is that close up, most of us are going to be discernible as having one-time been encapsulated in a fully male torso. At a distance and in casual close up, we may just about get away with it but in any kind of close contact, it will be obvious. Even with the biggest budgets thrown at change and with the best make up/styling available, it is almost always possible to tell.

We are at best just giving signals to the world as to the gender we wish to be known as, we are not really going to fool those close to us. Those signals are initially largely down to the clothing, styling and trappings we wear and carry (although women look for different features than men) but of course body shape and face carries its part. Take away all that add on stuff and how many of us would then be treated as female when walking down the street even after all the surgery in the world? Subtlety is paramount if we are not, at times, to cause an offensive reaction.



Personally, I don't have a problem with my past and don't particularly care who knows that I have made the change. I also don't care how people rationalise it to themselves or how they refer to me. I know that they just won't 'get it' - I know I wouldn't have either a few years back.


I certainly don't see any point whatsoever in creating a new world full of lies and half truths. Most of us have just escaped one of these!!!


Miranda