[Missed Miss]

You could be right Miss.
Most of the time I have found if I treat people I meet with kindness
and respect they tend to over look my little oddities.
With that said I have also found to keep the inner girl in check.
Meaning that if you let your female look and mannerisms get out of hand, you become more female than generic everyday females and this will cause you problems. Nobody dresses like June Cleaver anymore except me
when I get home after work lol.
As far as family and friends.
That's on a need to know basis.
Meaning I do not advertise the fact I am transgender. If they ask I will tell them the truth and then its kinda up to them at that point.
My parents are both gone now and they never knew nor did I ever feel the need to express it to them. I will say I am sure they both realized I was a little out of the norm lol.
My sister who is 7 years older knows and while at first she did not quite get it, now excepts it and we are now better friends than we ever were growing up.
I am basically still single and being transgender and dating is another story in its self and this is not the place.
I do not speak for the others here, we all have our own reasons,goals and circumstances to deal with. Going on PM and growing breasts has been a great experience and I plan continuing on it. I have no desire at this point to go the SRS route, I am where I want to be for now.

If there is a 3rd gender I am probably it. (half swan half duck)
I see no point in debating words the outside world has come up with to
label us and put us in a neat little slot.

Elisa

Not even June Cleaver!! Did you see her in, "Back To Beach"?
My friend, Carla, when she was still Carl, used to work in a steel foundry and she would have to drive those things overhead that carry and pour molten steel from one location to the other, so, as she would be in a "cage" by herself all day, she'd take a wedding dress to work with her and, once she got in the cage, she'd change into the dress and work all day in it!! Later, when she recorded her first album, she had a picture of her on the cover of her wearing the dress while running a vacuum cleaner over the lawn!
She also says that she won't just come out and tell people of her transition but if they ask, she has no problem telling them. She did SRS at least 10 years ago. She always said it was really strange how the people that are supposed to love you the most, no matter what (your family) are usually the ones that are the most volatile about it, but people you hardly know are almost always the most accepting!! She's told me stories of how her dad used to beat the shit out of her (as Carl) and call him a freak, a fag and all sorts of other names and, except for her older brother, her entire family has abandoned her!!
Apparently the third gender is someone that has both.