Five Questions Meme
Jun. 20th, 2010 08:17 pmCOMMENT and ask and I will think up some questions for you too! I do not guarantee that they will be good questions, however.
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seishun asked me:
1. How long have you known you were trans? How has it affected your life?
That's a tricky question to answer. I had no clear concept of being trans or identifying as female or anything like that in childhood, but there were subconscious feelings of being female. For example, I always had the feeling that I was going into the wrong bathroom when I went to the boys' room. A lot of trans people talk about how they preferred to play with kids of the gender they later transitioned to, but I pretty much kept to myself, not playing with boys or girls. I didn't really have a concept of identity at all. I vaguely seem to remember thinking I'd grow up female, but I can't really remember. I do remember that when puberty hit, I was traumatized by the changes that occurred. The genital growth, the body hair, the overall masculinization. I think a lot of the emotional trauma, too, was related to testosterone. I lost touch with my emotions to an extent. I envied my female classmates. I buried these feelings, but they still sometimes came up. ( Wow, this went on longer than I thought. Cut to spare y'all's friends pages ) It was actually only a few years ago that I started to think about gender identity consciously. Looking through my archives, the first time I posted (on a filtered post) about a genderqueer identity was April 19, 2008. I don't think it was very long before then that I had come to that conclusion myself. May 4 of last year I wrote a filtered post saying I had started to think that I might be transgendered. That was when I started looking into it more seriously, reading books and so forth. I came to accept it that month, and a few months later came out to my friends list. Sometimes it still amazes me how quickly I went from accepting it to myself to actually moving towards transition.
Wow, that was a long answer! ^_^
2. How has your family reacted to you being trans, or do they know yet?
Some of my family knows. They responded pretty well. I came out last September.
3. Describe your CD collection (or iTunes library). You don't have to list every album, I'm looking for styles of music you like, or if there are particular bands so much you have *EVERY*thing they ever released.
Eclectic. ^_^
4. Where did you grow up?
Pensacola, Florida
5. What do you do for a living, and what is the most rewarding aspect of your job?
I work for DHL Global, sorting mail. It's an okay job. Decent pay and benefits.
seishun asked me:1. How long have you known you were trans? How has it affected your life?
That's a tricky question to answer. I had no clear concept of being trans or identifying as female or anything like that in childhood, but there were subconscious feelings of being female. For example, I always had the feeling that I was going into the wrong bathroom when I went to the boys' room. A lot of trans people talk about how they preferred to play with kids of the gender they later transitioned to, but I pretty much kept to myself, not playing with boys or girls. I didn't really have a concept of identity at all. I vaguely seem to remember thinking I'd grow up female, but I can't really remember. I do remember that when puberty hit, I was traumatized by the changes that occurred. The genital growth, the body hair, the overall masculinization. I think a lot of the emotional trauma, too, was related to testosterone. I lost touch with my emotions to an extent. I envied my female classmates. I buried these feelings, but they still sometimes came up. ( Wow, this went on longer than I thought. Cut to spare y'all's friends pages ) It was actually only a few years ago that I started to think about gender identity consciously. Looking through my archives, the first time I posted (on a filtered post) about a genderqueer identity was April 19, 2008. I don't think it was very long before then that I had come to that conclusion myself. May 4 of last year I wrote a filtered post saying I had started to think that I might be transgendered. That was when I started looking into it more seriously, reading books and so forth. I came to accept it that month, and a few months later came out to my friends list. Sometimes it still amazes me how quickly I went from accepting it to myself to actually moving towards transition.
Wow, that was a long answer! ^_^
2. How has your family reacted to you being trans, or do they know yet?
Some of my family knows. They responded pretty well. I came out last September.
3. Describe your CD collection (or iTunes library). You don't have to list every album, I'm looking for styles of music you like, or if there are particular bands so much you have *EVERY*thing they ever released.
Eclectic. ^_^
4. Where did you grow up?
Pensacola, Florida
5. What do you do for a living, and what is the most rewarding aspect of your job?
I work for DHL Global, sorting mail. It's an okay job. Decent pay and benefits.
