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DO NOT REGISTER IF YOU ARE NOT TRANSSEXUAL: The GenderLife.Com Forum is for transsexual women only:
  • (Transsexual) Women overcoming Gender Identity issues who seek to live 24/7 medically, legally and socially as female.
  • Women who have already overcome Gender Identity issues and who are living 24/7 medically, legally and socially as female.
  • Exchange of Information and Support among (trans) women.
  • Trans women who can GET ALONG WITH OTHERS.

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We still love you and need your support, but this is our private place to work on our personal journey!

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Why so restrictive?!? I want to play, too!
We love everyone! Our videos, activist work and film projects support the whole trans community, MTF and FTM, whether someone wants to fully transition or just go out crossgendered for fun occasionally.
But the forum is a special and separate area with a very specific mission. It is for the exchange of support and information among transsexual women who are in the process of transitioning to living full time as female medically, socially and legally, 24/7. Or for those who have already completed such a transition.
We work very hard to screen out men from joining the forum area (we direct them HERE if seeking a TS girlfriend), and redirect folks with a more erotic or hobby interest in trans gendering to the CD/TV forum registration page HERE.
We apologize again for the strict nature of the signup process, but the women who join are very, very thankful for these measures because it makes the experience inside the forum a much safer and more rewarding one.
   
Intersex?

I've discovered over time that the few intersex members the forum has had over the years were forced to spend most of their time here reminding others of why they're different from most forum members, and why this or that issue doesn't apply to them, so I've come to believe that this forum is not really set up to handle intersex issues. If you were diagnosed at birth with an intersex condition or sex chromosome anamoly, you will probably not find the information here useful. As an alternative, try an intersex-specific forum like Bodies Like Ours.

Many intersex people were assigned a gender at birth (regardless of genital configuration) and remain living in that assigned gender now. They do not deal so much with the issues involved in crossing over from one societal gender (male) to the other societal gender (female). Instead, many intersex people deal with a different set of medical issues and self-identity issues relating to the choices made "for them" at birth by family and the medical community.

Occasionally, someone unambiguously assigned the male gender at birth will diagnose themselves as "intersex" because they feel it sounds better than saying they are "transsexual". These people have not had a genetic chromosome test performed, have usually grown up as male, and now face all the usual issues surrounding medical/social/legal transition. Nonetheless, these "self diagnosed" "intersex" people are encouraged to seek help in intersex forums as well, rather than the TS forums here.

   
Not Sure?
You honestly think you MIGHT be transsexual and need to transition medically, legally and socially to living as female full time (24/7), but you're not sure? Sometimes a person is not sure that they really are transsexual. Many of us asked ourselves, "Am I just gay?" "Do I really need to be a woman 24/7?" and countless other questions. How does this affect your potential for membership in the forum?
  • DO SOME RESEARCH and some SOUL-SEARCHING. The best thing you can do for yourself is figure this out as soon as possible. If you are transsexual, most all of us agree that we wish we had started transitioning sooner, so the more quickly you know, the more quickly you can begin. If you are gay, CD/TV or something else, the sooner you figure it out and seek out some support, the sooner you will start to heal and be a happier person.
  • If you feel that the only way you can figure things out is to ask a specific question, then do send it to an admin and it will be posted on the forum if they can't answer it for you. Do not join on a trial basis, decide you do not need to transition and then coast along for the social aspects hoping no one will remember.
   
USE.NET Veterans
Do not bring the use.net style of interaction to this board. If you like to argue, attack, pick apart and be negative, do not join. We are very quick to ask members with this style of interaction to leave.
   
Legal Stuff
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