Tights.

Being Transgendered is not too unlike being a Superhero.

• Both live with secret identities and live exciting double lives.
  


• Both fear that if their secrets are revealed it will end up hurting family
  and loved ones.
  


• Both often need to get changed in odd locations.
  


• Both do things normal people don't do.
  


• Both often find themselves teams or groups to support them (TG's should have
  more teams than they do IMHO).
  


• Both usually have a nemesis which is in opposition to all their goals and
  hopes. (in TG's this enemy is most often themselves).
  


• Both have one weakness which largely defines them.
  


• Both form strange trust relationships and almost no one really gets to know
  them fully (ala Smallville).
  


• Both are often feared as freaks in society.
  


• Both endeavor to correct particular injustices and right wrongs.
  


• Both consider their costumes to be important, symbolic and distinctive.
  


• Both must be extremely brave to succeed.
  


• Both represent the fight for ideals and doing what you are able to achieve
  them.
  
  

I currently live a double life. I am Female pretty much all the time except for when I'm at work, or around people who know me as a male. I have seriously always had major closeted fears that have hampered me for long as I can remember. Increasingly, readjusting my apartment, having 2 schedules, going to work in drab, and keeping it all secret are finally beginning to take effect. In addition, i don't think i've ever felt this happy and well balanced the more and more I transition. This daily inconvenience and joy continues to melt all of the apprehensions I've built over time. I feel myself really looking forward to not having the terrible burdens I've lived with all this time. I am so unbelievably excited about the day when there will only be one me and that it is the me I want.