21-09-2011, 04:22 PM
Sfem and JulieTG - interesting posts from both of you. Here is my perspective to add to the debate:
I had always viewed myself as a TV, but it always bothered me that the 'standard' definition of a TV was someone who got aroused by cross-dressing because I never did (oh - maybe for the very, very, first one or two times). I dressed as I did for a need but not a sexual one. Chrissie maintains that I am really TS and I suspect she may be correct.
Taking PM has not altered my need for feminisation, but it has given me a pathway to it. There have been some changes to my body, but a lot of changes to my mind.
Last night I was at "Chrissie's Kitchen" for an evening out with other T* people (advert for Chrissie - the food was great. The Lime Possett pudding was magnificent) and Chrissie commented that I looked totally relaxed and comfortable and she is right. I was totally relaxed and comfortable. Walking through the town in an evening dress was no bother because mentally I am calmer, happier and satisfied with how I present to others. I rarely get 'read' these days because mentally I am female. Maybe the point made above - that female brains respond well to oestrogens - prove Chrissie's assertion that I am TS rather than TG. I find it easy to be content and I am less sexually driven than before which I am happy with as well.
I can still get irritated easily but I am more willing to let people have their way. I have become more passive, but that might not be PM, it might simply be caused by the way I am fitting into my new gender role - females are expected to be more accepting, more passive and less aggressive. In order to be socially acceptable my behaviour needs to be more feminine. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck then for most people, most of the time it is a duck and the same hold true for me. Quack! Quack!
There are so many variables involved that I honestly do not know how we can separate one from another.
Beverley.
I had always viewed myself as a TV, but it always bothered me that the 'standard' definition of a TV was someone who got aroused by cross-dressing because I never did (oh - maybe for the very, very, first one or two times). I dressed as I did for a need but not a sexual one. Chrissie maintains that I am really TS and I suspect she may be correct.
Taking PM has not altered my need for feminisation, but it has given me a pathway to it. There have been some changes to my body, but a lot of changes to my mind.
Last night I was at "Chrissie's Kitchen" for an evening out with other T* people (advert for Chrissie - the food was great. The Lime Possett pudding was magnificent) and Chrissie commented that I looked totally relaxed and comfortable and she is right. I was totally relaxed and comfortable. Walking through the town in an evening dress was no bother because mentally I am calmer, happier and satisfied with how I present to others. I rarely get 'read' these days because mentally I am female. Maybe the point made above - that female brains respond well to oestrogens - prove Chrissie's assertion that I am TS rather than TG. I find it easy to be content and I am less sexually driven than before which I am happy with as well.
I can still get irritated easily but I am more willing to let people have their way. I have become more passive, but that might not be PM, it might simply be caused by the way I am fitting into my new gender role - females are expected to be more accepting, more passive and less aggressive. In order to be socially acceptable my behaviour needs to be more feminine. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck then for most people, most of the time it is a duck and the same hold true for me. Quack! Quack!
There are so many variables involved that I honestly do not know how we can separate one from another.
Beverley.