Anon, you do indeed talk a lot of sense, and I wish you all the best.

The point which I was trying to make earlier is that it is easier for a nontransgendered male (such as I) to understand the transformation process when it involves a "male" who has quite obviously from birth been cast in the wrong body. I would cite April Ashley as a case in point. She was quite obviously destined to be a woman, and there is another famous transsexual (whose name escapes me) who was, obviously, a similar case. Stephanie something ?

What I do find difficult to understand is when a hitherto normal male, apparently happily married with two children, with broad shoulders, an Adams apple you could ski-jump off, and hands like shovels, suddenly announces to the world at large that from now on he doesn't wish to be called "Andrew" he is going to wear a dress and be known as "Andrea".

This isn't a figment of my imagination btw. This is a description of what has happened in a small Highland village recently, involving a public official, and it has caused no end of undercurrents in the local populace.

I just have difficulty understanding it, that's all. It's got nothing to do with cuteness, or attractiveness, it's just that I can understand that when nature goes wrong and sticks a pair of balls onto an otherwise female body, then the mistake has to be corrected. It's when there are no other signs of blurred gender that it becomes problematic for me, but as I said in my earlier post, what I think doesn't matter.

Anyway, I wish you every happiness in your new life.