Thank you for attempting some civility here Gwen.

First off, I agree that I overreacted in my first response to you. I did offer an apology that was sincere. You've still yet to accept or even acknowledge that fact. It was sincere.

As for my gender let me make it clear to you,should you choose to continue to be respectful.

I identify as a transsexual woman. Standard female pronouns are what are used for me in real life and I appreciate them being used in cyberspace as well. As for buddy, well the first time I ever wore a skirt in public a clerk used that term to me as a means of humiliating me. Thus my sensetivity to the word. I've spent two years working at a women's center at our local university and a large part of the training there states that it's ridiculous to claim one knows about another groups oppression. If you do transition, you will discover this to be true. Reading about it is not the same as living it. We've had 36 transwomen murdered in this country in the past 33 months. Including the beating death of a 16 year old two-spirited native american right here in my home state last summer. Statistics show that my chance of being a homicide victim in my lifetime is 1 in 12.
All this starts from hateful ideas.
I stated what I did because I sincerly believed your hostility towards me had to do with my gender. Sorry, but that's how I felt.
Youir right-wing justification doesn't cut it with me. I've heard it all a thousand times.

I'm now fascinated that you claim you are considering a transition to male. I have a half-dozen friends and one former lover who was ftm. Also the facilitator of our local gender support group is ftm. Have you read any of Leslie Feinberg's work? He came here (he stated to me that my using male pronouns was fine with him as it honored his gender expression.) to give a lecture last year and spent two hours talking to our gender group befor his lecture. He's one of my heroes. I strongly suggest you read his work. Also are you familiar with S/m author Pat Califia? He's now Patrick.

Gwen I'll be the first person to offer my friendship to you. I don't need enemies. I could always use another friend.

I want to mention that if you undergo testosterone treatments, they will in fact cause your voice to lower.
We mtf's don't have that luxury. I had to work mine hard to where it is now. Funny thing is that it comes naturally without thinking about it after five years.

Peace Gwen. May this be the start of a friendly, respectful dialogue. BTW, I liked your artwork.