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- From: celeste%express@freedom.msfc.nasa.gov (Celeste)
- Subject: Re: Hi again...
- Message-ID: <celeste-060193115100@128.158.16.248>
- Followup-To: alt.transgendered
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- Organization: AEGIS
- References: <1993Jan6.172315.9864@fuug.fi>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 18:08:21 GMT
- Lines: 84
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- In article <1993Jan6.172315.9864@fuug.fi>, an2881@anon.penet.fi (Shannon)
- wrote:
- >
- > X-Anon-To: alt.transgendered
- >
- [Early personal history deleted about childhood CDing and quack pysch]
- >
- > I guess I just rambled, but has anyone around my age (34) gone to a
- > psy(ch(either one) and discussed CDing with any conclusions? Has it
- > seemed to "help" in any way? I'm curious because I feel like I should
- > have been a female, but I am male, but then I'd like to be a gay female
- > most of all, but I don't have any motivation to change. I'd be one
- > really sad looking female! (or not, who knows?) The funny thing to me
- > is that I'm REALLY SERIOUSLY comfortable being me the way I am. I don't
- > have that sig-other problem because I really don't feel a need to have
- > a girlfriend/relationship. Everytime I tried to be (quote) normal (quote ), I felt like I was giving up too much of what I wanted to do.
- >
- > So... any comments?
-
- Be the Best that you are!
-
- I you like "glitze" stuff, do it well and with style.
- I you like "passing" (which I like), do it well and with style.
-
- Learn to love youself!
- Only by learning to love youself can you love others.
- (That goes for emotional as well as physical love)
-
- The greatest gift you can give is yourself!
-
- Give it with delight and pleasure!
-
- Join a local CD/TV/TG/TS (what every is right for you) group and:
- 1) share youself with others.
-
- 2) have FUN!
- That is what life is all about! I didn't learn how to have
- fun untill I started wearing a dress! That was at 39!)
-
- 3) help and listen to others.
- We all suffer from pain. Help ease
- the pain. Some comes from the denial and abuse from the ignorance of
- society. Some pain, as in my case, comes from gender dysphoria and there
- are days I am always near tears. Many a night I cry myself to sleep!
- Somedays it is completely gone!
-
- 4) Read and learn about who and what you are.
- Transgender people
- have always existed. We have a place in history. (The first
- woman Pope was John VIII, a woman that lived as a man!)
- A Roman Caser offer up 1/2 the Roman Empire to the surgen
- that would give him a female gentalia! We are the teachers
- and shamans of the American Indians!
-
- 5) Don't let anyone put you down.
- God (and Goddess) made use and we are being put to good use!
-
- Join a national group or two. I belong to: Tri-Ess, Tapestry,
- and ETVC (based in San Fransisco eventhuough I live in SE).
-
- Help support a support group. I provide Mac expertice and have
- loaned my LaserWriter to AEGIS for their Chryalis newsletter.
-
- Give of youself not because of what you get in return (which will
- be considerable) but do it for the joy in being of who you are.
-
- A quote from "What Sex Am I?" made by a transvestite psychologist:
- "Transsexuals go through hell and
- Transvestities serve for a life time."
-
-
- > By the way, thanks to Celeste for being the adopted newsgroup guru!
- >
- Ah shucks.
-
- I'm blushing....
-
- > Love You,
- > - Shannon
- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Love and hugs,
-
- Celeste
-