trans

Advice
  • Heather Corinna

You listen to your own feelings and sense of self. You're the expert when it comes to your own identity. While a sex is assigned to us at birth, and people may have the idea that also determines our gender, that stands in conflict with the fact that sex and gender are different words that mean...

Advice
  • CJ Turett

Feeling uncomfortable or trapped by one’s own body is a really hard feeling to manage. I’m really glad that even though it was a challenge you were able to put some words to your feelings, and I hope that maybe this response can help you feel a little less isolated in those feelings. The first thing...

Advice
  • CJ Turett

Leahcar's question continued, This must sound so strange but I'm finally being honest with myself and need to get it out there for someone else to know about before I burst. I won't tell anyone I know about these feelings, but they just frustrate me all the time. It makes me so depressed because I...

Advice
  • Red

Thanks for writing. I am sorry that your heart is hurting and I hope that I can shed some light onto your situation. Before I do so I just want to let you know that I’ll be using the term trans women rather than “she-male.” The term “she-male” is a slang term used to describe people assigned male at...

Article
  • Heather Corinna

It’s typically assumed that sex and gender are the same. They’re not. What's gender all about, then? What is the range of gender and gender identity, and how does gender impact our lives and how we live them?

Advice
  • Heather Corinna

There are a couple of common reasons why someone might hate being a girl: you might hate it for one of them, or you might hate it for all of them. Regardless, you get to feel however you feel and there's nothing patently abnormal or wrong about being uncomfortable with your own sex or your gender...