Thanks for all the information, Gilda. The brain differences are particularly good information for everybody to know. I'm glad Sissy is doing well and I wish her the best. She's so lucky to have a sister like you!
I can see how MTF would be a lot more challenging socially than FTM. It's not very fair how men are not given the same kind of flexibility that women are. I have never really been a perfect fit with the female gender role, but as someone who hasn't felt that sort of deep dissatisfaction with their actual sexual identity, I can probably never truly understand what it's like. I've known plenty of bisexual and gay people, cross-dressers and the like, but not any transgendered (as far as I know). I certainly think I'm an open-minded person when it comes to these sorts of issues.
Then again I wouldn't blink or look twice at a man dressed as a woman, a woman dressed as a man, a couple dressed as small children, a hermaphrodite dressed as a trapeze artist, or whatever. It must be the area where I live.
