@cinnamonstick Thank you so much for your gracious offer. (By the way, I was born in Cleveland although my parents moved us back east when I was still only 5 or 6. So I don't really remember much about it except that I once puked in a neighbor's driveway and I fell from the first floor of a home under construction in the neighborhood down into the unfinished basement.)

With regard to my gender identity issues, there's not much to say. As far back as I can remember I always secretly longed to be female. But I was "assigned male at birth", as the euphemism goes nowadays, and I've always struggled to live as male a life as I could manage. (Sadly, I mostly made a train wreak of it.) And now, at my advanced age, there's really nothing to be done about any of it. So it all just is what it is... or was what it was... as the case may be. There's really just not much more to say... which is, at least in part, why I so seldom post my own threads here on MSF; to bring this reply back around toward the original topic of the thread. But I do appreciate your kind offer.