Lets start off my profile! I'm 24 years old and in the US Army. I'm my unit's chem person and LOVE my MOS. Recently the Army found out about 'me' and that I am a transsexual so at this point I'm sitting in limbo waiting to find out what's going to happen.

What are my interests? Well as a relic of having to live as a guy on the outside for 22 years I still indulge in video gaming quite a bit. I play WoW on Scilla and Turallyon. My favorite color is pink. My favorite writer is Douglas Adams. I was Christian but survived that. One of my favorite games ever is Dawn of War which I play occasionally. For many reasons I've pretty much quite WoW. My absolutely fav TV show is Family Guy.

The movie Rent is the one I love the most.

I'm a recovering Ebay addict I hate Fox News' unfair and unballanced attitude but love how fast they get the news and relay it on to me and that the news is actually relevent (sorry CNN).

On a more personal note...

One not in the know would ask "Why (or what) makes you transgendered? Well, I have a few reasons I believe may sort of answer that question. If I had been born as a female I may have died from any number of things that I wouldn't die of if I was born a male. Uterin, Ovarian, or Breast cancer. I may have had a heart attack when I wouldn't otherwise. Mabye I would have been an emo goth girl when I was a teenager that commited suicide. Mabye I would have been raped and killed. You never know. Of course, knowing the numbers of transgender girls and how often we are raped I'm pretty much waiting for my turn with a sick feeling.

What's another reason? Well, several months ago I was surfing on Youtube and came across a post made by a supporter of the Transgendered community (I don't know if the individual was Transgendered or not) that posted something like this to another member who wondered why they felt this way about themselves- "Mabye God made you Transgendered so that you could help bring awareness to the community." While I don't believe in that god anymore for various reasons, most of them morality, I do agree with the spirit of that post and feel that whatever caused me to exist caused it for that reason.

I also think that maybe this is my trial in life (everyone's got their own trial). Perhaps whatever god exists put this down to me that for me to pass this I must have the will and fortitude to do what I know is right with myself. In giving me a male body with a female mind he or she came half way. He or she protected me from certain things (disease) and has allowed me to have open eyes to both sides of the gender wall (though they're only half way open as I have yet to physically live as a woman). I'll never have a period and I won't go through menopause (with those perks one may think that I must have done something right in a past life), but then again I'll never know the joy (and pain) of giving birth. god came half way, I think it's only fair that I pick up the slack and come the other half and be who I know I am.

I waited eternity to be me, and I've got mabye seventy years on this Earth. After my seventy years I've got an eternity of "I don't know". I'm going to enjoy being me while I can!

You know, just between the two of us... I'm the one who defines me. I am able to define me and say who I am because no one else can be me. I've never told anyone who they should be and I don't think anyone should try to do the same to me.

Also, I've found someone I adore. Its amazing how quickly I've fallen and I'm incredibly happy with it!

Love -Amber