how to live life as a transgender

Everyone has a right to live and respected.

Transgender is a general term applied to a variety of individuals, behaviors, and groups involving tendencies that diverge from the normative gender role (woman or man) commonly, but not always, assigned at birth, as well as the role traditionally held by society as Wikipedia define it. The term itself may lead to other umbrella terms like cross-dresser, polysexual, genderqueer etc. The subtle change of its cycle from 1960’s up to the present still finds its way to be respected by the society. Isn’t it hard to live life as a member of the third sex? How do they tackle up the issues and controversies in our community?

People say that transgender are too insatiable when it comes to sex reassignment therapy. Valid reasons for most people think that they have plenty of cash just to have a surgery with their breasts and other parts of their body.

Rianne Barrameda, 22, a Gay Amazing Philippines transgender said that you have to invest money because if you are willing to be a transgender, you must go to scientific operations like breast enlargement and of course, sex transplant. She also stressed that she was taking hormonal pills like Dianne and Premarin which were over the counter drugs.

“It’s really hard to be a transgender. You have to take risks but it feels great coz I am able to say that I am really a woman nowadays, mentally, spitritually and of course physically” she said.

Liza Marie Cklein Corcamp, 18, also a transgender was started her surgery at the age of 16. It was painful but then, she was happy with the results. She will have a surgery next month for her breast enlargement and the cost of the surgery is worth P60, 000.


Money is indeed one factor to be a transgender. Some of these set of people had their sponsors like “Hapon” or Japanese Dirty Old Men or “Mayricks” American Old Men whose job is to send money just to have surgery in their bodies. Being a transgender is really expensive and that’s a fact.

Some transgenders had these thoughts they want to be loved by someone and live life normally with husbands and these transgenders will have their tags as they want to call “WIVES” in documents and not in words only. Bessy, also a transgender said that she wanted to live life normally and to escape from discrimination especially when finding a right man is to be a woman. She also said that even though they are scientifically enhanced as to be a woman but still, they have this heart that they want to be loved by someone who is sincere and has a pure heart.

A words uttered by every transgender are indeed true. They have this factor that we have to live life to the fullest just to gain respect and dignity. Living a life as a transgender has this two sectors, the brighter and the darker side.

From many peoples' perspective, including ourselves, transgendered individuals are often ready to take on a challenge, to have fun, who refuse to settle for anything less than a very full, complete life. The aim of this Site, however, is not to sing the praises of transgendered individuals. Rather, what we hope to accomplish is to give you some insight into what it is like to transition successfully into a new gender role.

We hope to get you to think about what you are doing or yearning to do even if that involves saying things that conflict with your own outlook on life. In that regard, we have tried to pull no punches when it comes to the difficulties, as well as the joys, of starting a new life. You may not agree with some of the things that we say. That is fine. Certainly you must ultimately decide matters for yourself. It is, after all, your own personal journey. We hope you agree that if you want to undergo a gender change, a new understanding and a new way of thinking are very important. You may even discover that changing your body is less challenging than changing some of the ways of your thinking.