This is non-transgender...
I just finished viewing a YouTube piece in which a male Administrative Assistant is transformed into a woman for the purpose of being a Surrogate Mother. They promise to turn him back after... but what would be the point?
An interesting concept. I'll be looking for stories like that here...
Gwen Brown
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Surrogate
Hi Gwen,
Below is the link to "Shotgun Motherhood" which has an explanation in it, but no turning back.
https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/102191/shotgun-mother....
I have also written a science fiction story suggested by Erin called "Our Child" about a prospective father having his dying wife's womb and embryo transplanted to complete the pregnancy. I may post that story is there is interest.
I have toyed with another scifi idea about a future society where gestation might not be confined to the female sex, but as you point out, that is non-transgender, so non me.
Maryanne
Complete Emasculation
Hmmm. Most here know that I had complete surgical gender change. Years later, I have come to the conclusion that most can not ever be a convincing woman. You are better off to cross dress, and live as a man the rest of the time.
Gwen Brown
live as a man the rest of the time.
All fine and good, if that meets your needs. I spent decades proclaiming that was who I was. I was so adamant that I believed the lie myself. But as the years went by the rest of the time just wasn't enough. I tried hard balance my girl time with my guy time only to feel partially empty the rest of the time.
I took steps to alleviate that by under-dressing. Tighty-whities got exchanged for panties. For a time that took the edge off of it. But then I needed more. I quit wearing plain white t-shirts for undershirts and switched to women's wife-beaters and quickly gave that up for plain camisoles. Women's socks replaced my men's; women's jeans and slacks replaced my pants. I found an excuse to let my hair grow. Big Shirts, from Woman Within replaced my dress shirts. Women's sneakers became my shoes of choice. For dress shoes I got some penny-loafers from Zappo's in women's size 12W. I've since replaced them with some Naturalizer loafers with the N logo high on the vamp.
In short, I can't dress like a man the rest of the time because I don't have but one man's polo shirt and the rest if my clothes came off the women's rack. The best I can do in that endeavor is to draw from the "butch" side of my wardrobe and let the people who need to misgender me.
Even with all that I still want to get breast augmentation, but that idea upsets my wife and I don't want to; make that can't, leave her. I'm honor bound until death do us part.
As for passing; at 80 I pass better than ever. Women I meet in the aisles in the grocery store strike up conversations with me and men offer to help me. Even my voice, which is was once told is a "true bass," doesn't seem to deter them from treating me as a woman. I was once harassed in a women's room, not because anyone saw me as a man, but because a woman using a cane thought I shouldn't be using the handicap stall. I had to show her the scar on my knee for surgery for a broken knee and explain that my limited range of motion made it nearly impossible to get up from a toilet seat without a grab bar.
Hugs
Patricia
Happiness is being all dressed up and HAVING some place to go.
Semper in femineo gerunt
Ich bin ein femininer Mann
Older women
My personal observation is that the body shape or form of post-menopausal women seems to become less gender-specific. Just as there is very little [physical] difference between males and females pre-puberty, that difference seems to again disappear post-menopause.
So if you dress your age (and avoid the stereotypical “ideal” of the late teen to early thirties) it becomes easier to pass as a woman as you pass the mid fifties and beyond.
As for under-dressing or androgynous dressing: I have been using using cotton jersey panties for nearly 25 years, mainly because they are a lot as irritating on my very sensitive skin. And for the same time I have found it easier to buy my pants (slacks or trousers) in from the women's section. Because of the shape of my lower spine and the shape of my posterior any pants I got from the men's department required extensive modification to the waistband slash belt-line.
A little over 10 years ago I started to develop a skin hypersensitivity to horizontal pressure lines across my lower torso (basically from just below the bust-line to just below the hip-joint). So I had several pants (both trousers and shorts) custom made with a 20cm wide waistband to alleviate that irritation. At the same time I had my seamstress also make me a few dresses with no waist-seam, that became my main clothing of choice whenever I did not need to interact with the rest of our community. Currently, even the top seam of the so-called kangaroo pocket, that is so common on hood pullovers, is becoming an irritant that will drive me crazy after just two hours.
So for the last four years I have abandoned all “male” clothing in favor of dresses with no horizontal (waist) seams. Separates such as blouse and skirt are a no-go for the reasons stated above. Even leggings are problematic, so I have found my personal style preference in the so-called modest fashion with the dresses falling between mid-calf and ankle length. I have also consistently ma'am-ed while out in public during these last four years. Not to mention that I feel much more comfortable presenting female at 55.
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Gwen Brown