I blame the good old Sears catalog for aditionally fuelling my feelings.  It would show up, Id be thrilled to turn to the womens intimate section and admire with envy the form and beauty it showed. That period is when I knew the road ahead would be full of complications and hurt before it ever got better. I cant be the only who stalked the mailman looking for that catalog?

Victoria's Secret was definitely the culprit.  Had my mom not got those magazines I might never have been trans... or something like that lol.  

Being Trans or gya or anything else isn't a learned behavior I don't think.  At least outside of the feminization fetishes, maybe.  I'm not Trans because of the internet (or vicky's mags full of beautiful women I envied for years)  But I am more knowledgeable about it and feel less alone because of it.  If you only have the feelings when you see someone else.. then maybe?  just maybe because I could never know your feelings.  Maybe it's a sexual interest for you?  I don't think the internet makes anyone queer anymore than a teacher turns students.

Two things I blame it on
1. Freedom
2. Less religion

They're linked as religion promotes a closed mind and hatred against anyone that comes out as anything that doesn't conform. The internet appears to be a double edge sword.

I blame the good old Sears catalog for aditionally fuelling my feelings.  It would show up, Id be thrilled to turn to the womens intimate section and admire with envy the form and beauty it showed. That period is when I knew the road ahead would be full of complications and hurt before it ever got better. I cant be the only who stalked the mailman looking for that catalog?

Yep something similar for me in the UK........although it was the Kays catalogue over here.  When I stayed at my grandparents there was an old one which I liberated and hid under the bed for perusal when I stayed there.  Although before then (and one of my earliest memories) was wearing my moms shoes when I was about 3/4, when I was younger I also pestered my mom for a doll which was in a shop window......I eventually got the doll but my dad was very miffed at the whole thing.

I guess even since I was around 8-9 (so only 30 years ago) a lot has changed when I think about it in terms of visibility and acceptance/tolerance of people being transgender........although that applies to quite a lot of other things as well.

Megan

If you were never happy with living as who you were because you are trans has nothing to do with media.  The media access helps people to get information and even the motivation to get started on a journey that is  already written for them. However, those on the fence should address the fact that they are on the fence at all and resolve their issues using that available info.

I blame the good old Sears catalog for aditionally fuelling my feelings.  It would show up, Id be thrilled to turn to the womens intimate section and admire with envy the form and beauty it showed. That period is when I knew the road ahead would be full of complications and hurt before it ever got better. I cant be the only who stalked the mailman looking for that catalog?

Yep something similar for me in the UK........although it was the Kays catalogue over here.  When I stayed at my grandparents there was an old one which I liberated and hid under the bed for perusal when I stayed there.  Although before then (and one of my earliest memories) was wearing my moms shoes when I was about 3/4, when I was younger I also pestered my mom for a doll which was in a shop window......I eventually got the doll but my dad was very miffed at the whole thing.

I guess even since I was around 8-9 (so only 30 years ago) a lot has changed when I think about it in terms of visibility and acceptance/tolerance of people being transgender........although that applies to quite a lot of other things as well.

Megan

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My guess is we have more transsexuals due to the growth of mental health coverage.  Now just a co pay will let you see a doctor.

I don't exactly blame the Internet.

I knew I was trans when I was a little kid in the early 80's. Society and my parents mad me bury it.

I got on the internet in the late 90's when it started getting popular, and one of the first things I searched was transsexual and all I found was a bunch of porn and a lot of transphobia....it took me over a decade to even search again, and then I found much better places such as this. Actually being able to have conversations with others like me, it's what brought me out of the shadows.

I don't see this as a bad thing, the only bad thing is that the internet has also allowed people that hate to connect in a similar manner.

Tonilu

love that top

would love too see those beauties naked ?

Julie

It`s not the internet.We all forget the food ,its laced for years with growth hormones and that are female ,so no surprise that the consumer of all that hormones get a female body more or less depending on the dose. Years ago in porto rico ALL boys got breast , the found out that it was because the chickens where so fed up with hormones,and the eat a lot of them there, that the became female.So fast more rules on limiting the dose of grow hormones . If that has go on, no doubt there would be many transgender people there as it all add up. Surprising there is NO information on added food hormone content per country and the number of transgenders.

Well over half a century of medical research has proved that Gender identity is set and cannot be changed by cross sex hormone introduction throughout adolescence.

so for your conspiracy to have any legitimacy it would have to be exposure of the foetus to food based substances, ie consumed by the mother. Now supposing that there was trans people created this way? there are still trans people recorded in history long before modern bastardised farming techniques. so it still would not be considered the primary cause?
I have had a similar conversation with my friend about the vaccine>autism conspiracy.

I wonder why I am trans often, many theories have garnered time and mental capacity in my head I grew up in the seventies, I have discounted food consumed by me, whatever it was happened in the womb. So in a way its my mum's fault?

ok new conspiracy- DES

My Mum said she was prescribed a iron supplement by the doctor. whilst DES was put in pregnancy supplements without peoples knowledge I doubt i was exposed.  My Mum really cant remember what she took if it was from the doctor or over the counter.

One study out of 500 DES sons found a 30% rate of gender dysphoria.