From: celeste%express@freedom.msfc.nasa.gov (Celeste)
Subject: Re: Hi again...
Followup-To: alt.transgendered
Organization: AEGIS
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 18:08:21 GMT

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
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