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Permalink Reply by Beverly Taff on April 25, 2012 at 17:06

I have ceased to use sports facilities since growing my breasts.    I am intergendered and present mostly as male unless I use extensive makeup to disguise my masculinity.

 

As a consequence of my intergendered condition I have finally come to terms with my indeterminant gender and thus started taking hormones, (self medicating because of my ghastly experiences with doctors between 1952 and 1960,).

 

I have now grown female breasts (36 B/C and my body fat has to some extent become feminine insofar as it is extremely soft.   There is even a whisper of cellulite around my upper thighs but nothing obvious unless I pinch the skin.

 

Howver, my overall appearence is now intersexed.   I still have my male genitalia though wholly non-functional ... while I also have zero body hair and very obvious female breasts.

 

This appearence precludes me from going into public swimming pools and I was even ordered out of one when my breasts first started growing.

 

My experience of using public changing facilities has been catastrophic.   Consequently I have taken up cycling as a sport to keep my weight down and my body slim.  (Size 12 to 14 dresses.)   I find that strangely, the cycle club I have joined, (Port Talbot Wheelers,) is very sympathetic and supportive of my feminised performances on my bike.   By that I mean I am very slow on my bike and the club will wait for me if I fall behind on club rides.

 

No more public swimming for me anymore, other users like mothers with children and older men around my own age (66), tend to get abusive despite my minding my own business and simply ploughing up and down the pool doing strictly my own thing.

 

I suppose this is just one of the thousand little incidents we can expect to meet as LGBT people.

 

Beverly Taff

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