About This Picture...

I chose this as one of my favorites because it doesn't focus solely on my breasts.  Yeah, sure, they're magnificent (if I do say so myself), but there are other body parts attached to me as well.  I know the focus may be on certain specific attributes, but I'm the whole package, not just a collection of parts.

On thing I like about this picture is the curve of my hip.  I was surprised when I first saw some of these pictures how wide my hips had gotten.  And the weird thing is that isn't fat, it's bone.

So how is it that my skeletal structure could change this late in life?  I guess I'm proof that although most of your bone growth occurs before your 20th birthday, it never really stops. And after 17 years on hormones, the body has regenerated enough to actually alter my skeleton so that my pelvis has significantly widened in that time.

Now, the questions arises: is that solely an affect of the hormones, or (since I had many female skeletal features since birth) is it just the natural growth pattern of the intersexed elements of my body?

Doesn't really matter, I suppose.  The important thing is that I've transformed physically into just the girl I always wanted to be, and since it has even happened at the skeletal level, it is permanent and can never revert or go away.

~~  Melanie Anne

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She is also the founder of the first Transgender Forum on America Online
and the creator of the world's very first Transgender Support Web Site.

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