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For those of you who wonder what I really look like, here is your chance to have a good laugh or lose your lunch.

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No laughs

RAMI

Dear LittkeKatie

No one should laugh. If they do they are the fools. You were brave enough to post your picture. We all are who and what we are, and must do the best with what we have. We can try and improve, but sometimes that is hard or impossible.

I do think however, your name indicates the dreams and wishes you have for yourself.

RAMI

RAMI

The name little katie

The way I came about the name little Katie is not how you think. When I was deciding on a name for my feminine self and also for writing on TG sites my first choice was Kelly Lynn. I chose that name because I thought that both names were ambivalent and could be masculine or feminine and also it sounded very Irish (my angry half) so I liked it. But, at that time, Kelly Girl was being posted on the sites so I felt I was infringing especially since I was a new author. Also Kelly Lynn didn't seem to fit, I would need red hair and I don't have it. So I went on to come up with another Identity and this is how.

My name is Keith.... Starts with a K My nickname (and people still call me by it) is Tiny... Starts with a T. K and T, thus Katie was born. Now little had nothing to do with anything AB or ALG, but was taken from my nickname and also because my last name starts with an L. And thus I named myself.

Interesting to note. My aunt Roe thought I named myself after my aunt Catherine, but I didn't

K.T. Leone

My fiction feels more real than reality

Katie Leone (Katie-Leone.com)

Writing is what you do when you put pen to paper, being an author is what you do when you bring words to life

No laughing here, either

Ragtime Rachel's picture

Katie, that's actually an excellent picture of you. You certainly have more courage than I--for months I've wanted to follow your example and post a picture, but fear that it would be picked up by a search engine. I'm not "out" to all of my online friends and acquaintances, and don't know if I want to be.

Rachel

Livin' A Ragtime Life,
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Rachel

Braver

than I. My appearance has always been my bane. Your courage in posting proves yours.
hugs
Grover

PS: To help with that self -esteem problem I always suggests Wal-mart. There's more than enough bad examples there to make even the most timid of us feel good.

nice cheekbones. and you

nice cheekbones. and you have your hair. I am losing mine for no reason we know of but then again so is my sister, my brother , and my dad.

Hair, you stll have some hair, tels?

A large portion of mine said bye-bye years ago.

Little Katie, what you look like doesn't matter, well sadly it does to too many people but WHO you are as a person counts for so much more or should.

John in Wauwatosa

John in Wauwatosa

just so

just so you know i love your stories. i dont care what you look like. you are a very good writer. keep up the good work.
robert

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you think you look bad?

one day, I'll post one of me, and the image you guys have of sweet Dorothy Colleen will be shattered as you see this middle aged, balding, overweight male.

Dorothycolleen, member of Bailey's Angels

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No...

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...what we'll see, just as so many of you have reminded me about myself, is a body that doesn't quite fit the woman that you are. Read Katie's writing and your own and so many others here, and you'll 'hear' a female voice; the one speaking for that part of you and me and Katie and others that truly is who we are.


Dio vi benedica tutti
Con grande amore e di affetto
Andrea Lena

  

To be alive is to be vulnerable. Madeleine L'Engle
Love, Andrea Lena

Well...

There's definitely a lot of room for improvement. But that's really not that big of a problem in the grand scheme of things. I think simply losing a lot of weight would probably make you feel better about yourself. It did me. (What is it about TG and a tendency towards weight problems? Is it the depressions? I know mine was almost exclusively because of depression.)

If it'll make you feel better, I'll link a few older pictures of me, what I looked like back in High School, just before going out to Uni, and just shortly before getting sent home from Uni.

Initially, I was going to do so in comment to your entry, but I've decided to make it my own entry... The Boy I Was

Well... I know that you're probably older than I am, and testosterone has done a lot more work on your body than it had mine, but honestly, Katie, all is not lost. You are not a monster. You may not look like what you want to, and shoot, I don't think any female, whether born in a male or female body, is ever FULLY comfortable with their body. I know there's a lot of things I want to change...

Eventually, you will find a way to get the treatments you need. Keep the faith. Stay strong. Have courage.

Abigail Drew.

Abigail Drew.

I agree

Katie,
I agree with Andrea,we have read your stories, and the anguish you feel about who you are, Well let me tell you, all I can here is a woman telling us who she is inside.

ps I dont know why but I pictured you with blond hair,maybe that is Jenny in your story who i was thinking off.:)

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ROO

No dear

you are not a monstrosity. Trust me when I say I have seen all kinds of T-folks and you are far away from being a monster.

Of course you need work, all of us have short comings and it fixing those shortcomings gives us the opportunity to grow.

Kim

Hi Katie! i've not met you

Hi Katie!

i've not met you before; don't think I've said hello to you yet.

I'm gonna use my firm, Loving Grandma voice here for a second, and you better pay attention, or I'll hide the cookies...

Lady, you ain't ugly.

You have a look VERY similar to my piano teacher in the late 80's; she was a glorious, tough ol' dame who could crack my knuckles like a shrew but also utterly ROCKED the Large and Distinguished Lady look. You also look pretty damned handsome as a man. I'm not 'reaching' or streaching the truth here one tiny bit, either.

I have no vested interest in lying to you; I've never met you before, and I could'a just not posted.

Okay, okay... you are not pretty in a Woman's Day Model sort of way; but neither are the damned models! Every glamour pic these days is photoshopped to the max.

No, you are not a beauty queen. But you ARE, without doubt, above average in 'looks' from where I sit, and I work in a business where I see the rich and beautiful regularly.

My dear, you have (like many of us) plenty to worry about that matters. Your looks aint one of 'em !!

Now put on a dressing gown, you statsuesque and beautiful lady, and rock your looks.

You got 'em :)

cookies found.

Ssshh don't tell her but I found the cookie stash. Here katie "hands over a tupperware container full"