Stunning, brave translady is both stunning and brave

[CaitlynsCat]

www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/decisions-led-dad-become-transgender-1944624

"As well as having made the huge decision to begin transgender treatment, Martin also decided that he would not hide any longer.

He would come out as a transgender woman - as Katie - in a way which was very publicly indeed.

Since then, he has been shouting his experiences from the rooftops via social media and local radio and – by and large – has received something of a hero’s welcome."

"Martin/Katie was not only heterosexual, he wanted a child.

He cut his hair, fell in love and the couple had a child together, who is the apple of his eye.

Then in May last year, Martin went to see a clairvoyant he had met at a business networking meeting.

“I went along for a reading because I’d never been to one and I was intrigued,” she says.

What she told him was that he needed to start a new way of being and said there was a part of him that had always been there but that he was not fully in integrity with."

"after that, my gender dysphoria increased dramatically – I was so desperate to identify myself I even Googled ‘what gender is Martin Neeves?’ ”

Desperate, confused and in turmoil, he joined a support group on social media and someone suggested he should see a specialist gender counsellor.

After four successful sessions, in which he says he "hit the ground running", he felt that he was "gender fluid" ("nature doesn’t do black and white, it presents a whole spectrum.")"

"Katie now says: “After counselling and working through therapy on how to identify your gender, I now know I am 70 percent female and 30 percent male.

"It was my fear stopping me from admitting I am actually a transgender woman.”

A second visit to the clairvoyant resulted in a four-hour clarification session using deep meditation and other methods as a way of encouraging and revealing inner truth, with all the answers coming from Martin."

"She looks wonderful and feels great. Her prescribed hormones have made her skin soft, and as a naturally slightly-built person, she has an enviable figure.

She counts herself lucky as many other transgender women are naturally of a heavy build.

Brave determination has paid off, she is happier and more relaxed than ever.

Katie’s name will not be considered for the long waiting list for the actual operation to make her into a woman sexually, until she has lived full-time for a woman as a year."

I am so, so tired of males claiming to be lesbians. It's ridiculous and horrifying for actual lesbians.

It comes across as wanting to have their cake and eat it to me.

The behaviour of transgender people like Martin (I'm referring to the 30% that is male so not dead-naming) really annoys me. I am critical of TRAs who are anti-women and of ones who seek out publicity as I don't think it does women any favours - and I include in that trans women who just get on with their life without causing harm to other women.

"I am so, so tired of males claiming to be lesbians."

It has to be a fetish, no other explanation for it.

I can't see how this is newsworthy at all.

A pp said it's funny how they wait until they have had children before transitioning, are trans people not allowed to want children ?

I think the point is, trans people obviously want children at the same rate as other people, but to be fully committed to a trans identity you will become sterile. (Obviously most trans ppl aren't full op).

Waiting until after you've impregnated a woman and had a woman raise your child/ren for you, to declare you're "really a woman" is a bit of an insult. And so very common in mtfs.

They usually whinge about watching pregnancies and wanting it to be them who had the babies, and how that makes them exactly like infertile women.

I now know I am 70 percent female and 30 percent male.

And 100% AGP

This is just nonsense, like so many stories like this. 70% female indeed. Meaning that 70% of the time you like to wear dresses and the rest not? I am like 1% female in that case.

Waiting until after you've impregnated a woman and had a woman raise your child/ren for you, to declare you're "really a woman" is a bit of an insult. And so very common in mtfs.

I agree. And those who are honest and up front and declare it before they have children are as rare as hen's teeth I expect.

I bet they’ll be delighted to know that they qualify to enter the British Journal of Photography’s ‘Female in Focus’ Award - An award for Women Photographers’

The Award is “our way of addressing gender imbalance in the industry. While 80% of photography graduates are female¹, only 15% of professional photographers are women². On top of this, 8 out of 9 photography award winners are male³.”

And look! It’s open to all those who identify as women and non binary people too. Get in there Katie!

@ birdbandit what we don't do in a civilised society is turn a blind eye, or accept it as someone's "right" to involve others either unwittingly and unwillingly in their sex game. Because they "aren't doing any harm".

This. You are so right.

On another note "has an enviable figure"????? Envied by who? Other TW? Surely Martin/Katie cannot be so deluded as to think women find it to be enviable? That would actually be quite insulting.

How many of these "man decides he's now a woman" stories does the media have to trot out before they finally realise it's not actually news? It's getting very tedious and repetitive.