Ok, I'm putting out this journal here mostly because I want something I can refer people to every time I have to bring up this subject, rather than going into the whole thing over and over again. :p

Now, let's get a little terminology going here to start things off:

trans·gen·der [trans-jen-der, tranz‑]
–noun
1. a person appearing or attempting to be a member of the opposite sex, as a transsexual or habitual cross-dresser.
–adjective
Also, trans·gen·dered.
2. being, pertaining to, or characteristic of a transgender or transgenders: the transgender movement.

Now with that out of the way. I am a transgender person myself. I was born a male, but I prefer to view myself as female... my thoughts and feelings are those of a female (at least that's what anybody who's subject to them tells me), and I intend to have the male-to-female operation as soon as I finish my therapy and such (and have the funds to do so).