when I hit puberty my breasts kept on growing in tell they were a G cup so I got a breast reduction but for some reason I'm still not totally happy even though the surgery turned out well. Some background info on me is when I was growing up I never hung out with the girls always the boys, I was what you would call a tomboy.So what I'm asking is could I posiblely be gender confused? Maybe when I got my surgery I was hoping that I would look more like a man.:smilewave
Well really being trans* means you usually feel like a man or have a sort of dysphoria with your body (not always though) I guess the main question would be do you feel like a man or are you uncomfortable in your body? Are there any other reasons you might be speculating you're trans*?
well honestly I always hated the girl parts of my body and have sometimes wondered if I would be happier as a boy even going as far as wishing I had a penis is that a form of dysphoria?
Yes. When you're uncomfortable with your body (specifically your genitalia) it's called Gender Dysphoria. This is what most trans* people experience to some degree. That's why you see a lot of these threads (including my own) that talk about dysphoria and the struggle with it. Puberty is probably the most traumatic time for trans* people because the body starts to develop what we feel are the wrong parts. Dysphoria usually does get worse as we start to discover that we're trans* though. It is possible you could have GID, really what it takes to know for sure though is time and thought. Usually a trans* person will know after a certain amount of thought and reflection that they are trans*. If you can go to a therapist to deal with these issues I strongly recommend it. Just make sure they deal with transsexual issues as a specialty so they can give you a more honest diagnosis, and will not try to "cure" you of these problems. Rather they'll try to help you work through them on your own.
