I'm trying to figure some things out.
It's true that I know how I wish I had been born, but it's also true that I wasn't born that way. I'm starting to think maybe I shouldn't be fighting it so hard. Maybe it's important to accept it, rather than to try to change it.
When I see people that are the way I wish I'd been born, I'm jealous. I'm definitely jealous. And no matter how much I want to be like them, I can never be them. It's really frustrating to know that my heart doesn't match my body, but the fact is that it doesn't, and the best I can do is to make it sort of, kind of, somewhat like the way I wish it was. I can never fully be what I feel I should have been. So to make myself into something that will never feel real and still feels half-assed, I'd have to go through a lot of things that would damage by body. But for what? No one's ever going to see me as a real guy. I don't ever see myself as a real guy, with the body I have.
So...I don't know what to do. I'm torn between putting on makeup and a dress and trying it out again and sticking with my choice. Neither one feels right. Neither one is good enough. I don't like knowing that I'll never fully, completely be anything. The only way I think that's really possible is to embrace femininity and "be a girl" but that doesn't help because I like guys in a gay way. And I like GAY guys in a GAY way. But if they always see me as a girl, I'm never going to find love.
Maybe it is better to just not be with anyone. If I can't explain it to myself, how can I explain it to someone else?
Oh I know exactly all of these feelings. You're not alone in this, whatever you decide to do. There are trans guys all over the world, and you'll be staggered by the diversity of us. I myself have a lovely straight girlfriend who sees me as 100% the guy I am- even though I have bigger boobs than her.
ReplyDeleteI'm with Charlie. And, tbqh, M and F aren't the only boxes available to check. You don't have to be either if neither one fits. There are communities for androgynes, genderqueers, and genderfucks all over the internet. :)
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