Any Other Trans* People Here?

[heroforhalos]

I'm not sure if this should go here or in the personals section-- but I'm not really looking for one person; I'm looking for a bunch of people, and maybe it has a better chance of being read here.

I'm a trans*man, I'm 20, I've been a ticklephile since forever, similar to most people on the site it seems. I'm primarily a 'lee-- though I've never actually had a real session; I've always wanted to-- but being trans makes me feel so self-conscious in any sexual situation generally speaking (and tickling is very sexual for me) that it's hard to even imagine approaching anybody.

I have all these pestering fetish-related thoughts that I can't really discuss on a trans* forum. :lol

Like I keep hearing that bio-guys are more ticklish than girls-- I always get kind of angsty about this because I was assigned female at birth (despite other complications that don't end up being very important) and now I'm transitioning to be a male full time. Will transitioning (with hormones-- Testosterone) make me more ticklish? I don't know! xD (I hope so?)

Genital tickling tends to be the main focus of a lot of the fantasies that go on inside my head-- but of course I hate my genitals, so I wouldn't know how to go about anything even related to that in real life.

And yes, I'm a conflicted mess about almost everything.

Basically, I just want to see if there's anyone like me out there. :3

(No haters, please-- but that goes without saying. If anybody has any questions, that's a different story-- that's fine. Just be respectful of everyone here (including me and yourself!))

 

[juanmiller]

Hi remus! I'm a trans man as well. If anyone were to say something hateful about that, they're just showing their ignorance. 🙂

I transitioned years before I got into tickling as a fetish, but I was always very ticklish even as a child, so I don't know if testosterone affects it at all. It's not a crazy idea, though, since hormonal changes will definitely affect you in many ways that are "not in the brochure", so to speak. It seems like every time I talk to a transgender person they have something different to say about how hormones affected them. You'll never know all the ways it's going to affect you until you experience it. The changes will also keep going for years... Think about it, this is basically like going through puberty again, and it takes several years for that to happen the first time.

Regarding being self-conscious about your body, I hear you brother. I think most of us go through that. Add in a somewhat unusual fetish, and you've got a recipe for some serious shyness. Once you get going on whatever medical transition you have planned (hormones, surgery, etc) you may start to feel more confident, but even with that, it can be hard to "un-learn" the feeling that your body isn't what you want it to be.

My girlfriend is also into tickling, so that part of it wasn't an issue, but my own feelings about my body were. Actually our shared love of tickling made things easier for us, because there are many ticklish body parts (feet, tummy, etc) that don't require that you even get undressed or show any part of yourself that makes you feel weird. Starting from there, I eventually got the confidence to feel okay about myself and trust that she would not be put off by my body.

Above all my advice to anyone is: relax. It is very possible for you to find people to date, play with, love, be friends, or anything else you desire. It may take more patience than the average guy, but who wants to be average anyway. :stickout

 

[Tickleslave83]

I'm a bio-male who wishes he were female but I've never done hormones or anything so can't help here I'm afraid.