I?m not sure I would necessarily agree with that.Originally Posted by CynthiaD
These workboots and overalls are looking pretty feminine to me.
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I see your previous touche Kelly with a toosh.Oh, dear... Perhaps this should be it's own thread, but I'll risk it.
Brianna, you are the same as them where it counts the most, and for that reason alone, you deserve to be able to live authentically, as the woman you are. All the things we might do, or not do, to align our bodies with our sense of self don't change that identity. CIS women who have battled cancer to a draw, for example, don't become less of a woman because of the loss of a uterus or breast, even though such feelings are often associated with such outcomes. They are still women. By the same token, those of us born with the wrong set of chromosomes aren't any less the woman for it. If you want medical intervention to correct that, why should you deny yourself that?
As I was reading the comments I thought the same thing about women who have lost body parts to cancer or other reasons that removed them. I’m sure all here would agree that doesn’t make them any less a woman.
And although, my response above with the overalls is posted somewhat in jest, there is truth in it. I wore a modified tuxedo to a formal dinner last year and was surprised at the number of compliments I received (four from cis-women) on how bold the choice was to wear a tuxedo yet was able to look quite feminine in it.
I am a transfemme enby and despite being on HRT for a few months, I don’t know what it means to be a woman (or a man for that matter) but there is a... for lack of a better term, “feminine energy” I connect with... that I feel. And as I cultivate that and allow myself to feel it instead of repress it I notice my way of thinking is a little different? I don’t know how to explain it. I’m still me but different... but feminine.
Even if I’m wearing overalls and workboots or a women’s cut tuxedo.
