cause or effect

Cause or Effect?

Am I trans?

Seems like a ridiculous question.  And yet, here I am asking it anyway.

This is not a semantic or political issue for me, and it’s not a debate about the meaning of the word or the condition.

The question is meant simply to ask whether the girl part of me is really part of my true nature or not.

I have been an observer of this scene long enough to have come to the conclusion that there are a host of reasons why guys dress up as girls, and many of them have little to do with a female spirit living inside them – at least in my view.

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trying on heels

Heels

10 of 19 © 2011 Connie Tsang; model: Janie Black
buying heels

“It was an absolutely amazing feeling, the first time I wore high heels. It’s almost like someone’s lifting you up and putting you into a vulnerable position… You are put up into a position that’s not natural. It was really kind of an interesting feeling. It was arousing. It was exciting. It was different. Claire Black (Janie)

perspective

Perspective

9 of 19 © 2011 Connie Tsang; model: Janie Black
perspective

“I certainly had some doubts in my mind as to whether or not, sexually speaking, I was appreciating what the women were doing from a man’s perspective or wanting to do those things myself, have their experience as opposed to… I guess, whether I want to interact with them as a guy that way or to want to have their experience myself.” Claire Black (Janie)

In and Back

8 of 19 © 2011 Connie Tsang; model: Janie Black
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“I think it’s actually easier for men to walk in heels because men have stronger ankles. But you still have to get used to the balance. As a guy, you’re kind of, like, forward. As a girl, everything is different in your posture. It really is back as opposed to forward; everything is in as opposed to out – shoulder blades, elbows, knees. I found a lot of that to be quite natural for me.” – Claire Black (Janie)

Self

7 of 19 © 2011 Connie Tsang; model: Janie Black
self

“I have my own name, I have my own personality, I am a girl… It’s not just the clothes. I don’t behave the same way as a girl as I do as a guy.” – Claire Black (Janie)