ITV Transformation Street

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On tv tonight.

But here's an article to give you a taste of what its going to be like:www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/transformation-street-itv-transgender-documentary-a3737876.html

@48harv I totally know that it is not a choice. Nowadays the thing with the 'gender fluid' etc are a bit different.

Can I ask when you fully transitioned (age)? Don't answer if you do not wish to.

Must go and do dinner.

I was 43 years old

And if I could have had the op at 13 I would have jumped at it, as it is I was born to early.

Truthfully I have never wavered from my decision, it was100% right for me, then and now.and without sounding melodramatic I wouldn’t be here still if I hadn’t transitioned when I did, the Friday I decided it was time I saw only one other avenue to finally resolve the issue. It was a very close call.

Oopse sorry, cross posted, that happens a lot here!

Glad it worked out for you.

I want to thank you all for allowing me to come on this forum, I am not sure why I did , I usually avoid discussing this issue and to live quietly not making waves or such like It was different talking to you thanks a lot ladies

Ps hope your family enjoyed dinner hehe😊

@48harv my family are very fussy and never enjoy anything I cook! Iong for the day they invent a pill I can eat instead of food (I'd be slimmer too!)

My first job after school was as a cook , I did that job for 13 years perhaps you should imply me 🤪🤪

That employ not imply

Once as a bet with some friends I prepared an 11 course meal for ten,people half of them wanted to go to sleep after about the 9 th course we were at the table for 4.5 hours.

I hope they were small plates! (That's my mother talking!)

Yes it was small portions, the last being buscuits and a cheese board if I remember rightly

you may be surprised but I suffered a very heavy dose of the menopause

You say you enjoy the honesty here, so here it comes.

Please don't do this. Whatever hormonal upsets may have happened to you, they were not the menopause. That is a condition that specifically affects women. It is harmful to women for you to appropriate female experience like this. Your own experience is different. Own your own stuff, and let us own ours.

@48harv thank you for coming here and engaging constructively, I believe the debate needs more of this

Dear Sophocles .... it was diagnosed by a qualified doctor to be the symptoms of the menopause because I was by then on a very high dose of the female hormone estradiol And had been for 3 months, I am only stating what was said to me.

There are also new theories that even men suffer a type of menopause not the same as women of course,

Thank you dear McTufty, as I said I rarely disclose my past but it’s been good to air it to you all, thanks for your responses. It’s refreshing to see that time has advanced the tolerance for people like me.

The symptoms of menopause are caused by low oestrogen. Estradiol is used to treat menopause by replacing the missing oestrogen. You couldn’t suffer the symptoms of menopause by taking too much oestrogen.

Trans women don’t go through menopause.

Men don’t go through menopause.

My responses are brief as my phone is on the fritz. But as a women who suffered for years with gynae problems, including early menopause, I simply will not stand for the experience being appropriated willy nilly like this. It’s not Ok.

Dear Sophocles I have no desire to offend you but
Men do suffer a type of menopause it’s clasified as ANDROGEN a tetesterone deficiency older men suffer, now multiply that deficiency with a huge increase in oestrogen (hrt) and the symptoms mirror the female menopause which in my case lasted for 6 months, this is all true , not a silly fantasy by a trans woman, and if you are offended then I am sorry.

The "male menopause" (sometimes called the "andropause") is an unhelpful term sometimes used in the media to explain the above symptoms.

The fact that you think six months of suffering whatever you suffered with is what menopause feels like only illustrates that we are not talking about the same thing.

Menopause lasts for a number of years.

Your experience is yours. It is not a female experience. You may not colonise this.

“if you are offended then I am sorry” - the classic non apology. At any rate, I don’t accept it, dear 48.