Reply To: How Do You Know if You Are Trans?

[carla1212]

Thanks MelissaD,
As always your perspective is reassuring and wise! You nailed it… I tend to overthink things like this. I guess it hit me yesterday morning, I was out and about on a Sunday morning in an ‘old town’ area near me, antique-hunting, getting brunch and coffee all alone, and people (men and women both) were just so sweet to me everywhere I went. Then suddenly I was gripped with the thought: “They wouldn’t be this nice if I didn’t look like this!” But now I think part of the problem is that I myself act, move and speak differently in my male and female modes. It’s a necessary consequence of my fairly macho career where it would just be too bizarre if I acted like my real, feminine self wearing my military uniform and other masculine accoutrements…
Carla