Weird thread topic, I know. But I was just thinking about them. I don't understand them! How the hell can a chick have a dick? Are they fake? And what the fuck do guys think of them? And women? I mean... they would really only make it in the porno world, right? I dont know, I guess I just dont get the concept?
there's a transexual and transgender forum hidden away somewhere. i believe you have to ask sammhain or erzebet for an invitation there.
I think you poorly picked a title for your thread. That word seems very offensive and cruel to me. I have known transgender and transsexual people before, they aren't any different than you or me if you give them a chance and get to know who they are inside. Some people are born with a penis but identify themselves as a woman. How hard is that to understand? Some of those people live miserable lives as men, others realize that they must be true to themselves and they dress and live as women. Some of those in that second group go on to have operations, if they can afford them. They live ordinary lives (some of them live very extraordinary lives) among ordinary people like you and me. There might even be someone like that living down the street from you, working at the grocery store, or cutting your hair. It doesn't make her any less a woman just because she was born with a dick instead of a vagina. And, though I've only ever met two people born with female genitalia who live as men, I'm sure the same goes for them as well.
I have a net buddy who crossdressed for a long while, started feminization (changed his mind) and he was QUITE fine with shemale. Shemale basically is a man who is in all other aspects feminized, just not cutting his penis off. Thanks to him, I understand what a ladystick is (the limp organ a shemale has because of estrogen therapy) it's a self-selected gender reassignment, basically. Some really pass as genetic women, some, well, some are happy to be what they can manage to be. We see several in my office (we have the legal notices for Arapahoe County) doing name changes. I can't comment on someone's radical life change outside my personal circle, isn't my place, but I do read these name changes and transgendered men to women have HORRIBLE taste in names. lots of 80s names that, well, sound like strippers.
and if one woman is okay with being called a bitch, does that make it okay to call other women by that term?
Fake? No...They are real. Mentaly they are female, physically they are still a man. But it depends what exactly we're talking about here. Becuase there are also cross dressers who just enjoy wearing womens clothes, but still live the majority of their lives as men. I'm not even sure how to answer this... I want to help you understand...but that assumption is just absurd! There are people who accept them for who they are and people who don't, like any other group of people I suppose. Here's a link for you of terms that might help you understand more - http://www.hipforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=188579 You can also ask more question there, were you might get more helpful replys.
You can't be mentally a woman and physically a man. Gender is a purely physical option. If you're physically a man, you're a man. Maybe they feel they'd be happier as a woman, but that doesn't make them any more a woman.
Not true. Men and women are born with male and female brains. There have been many studies done on this. http://www.symposion.com/ijt/ijtc0106.htm http://www.tgcrossroads.org/news/archive.asp?aid=770 here are two links that I think explain what I am trying to say very well. These people tend to be very unhappy as the opposite sex and wonder what the hell is wrong with them, why they are attracted to things that girls or boys are not typically not. Ask any transgender person out there how they felt as a child. They will all tell you the same thing.
Sort of off topic, but can't one be both? That statement to me is just as bigoted as assuming a transsexual can only make it in the porno industry.
It is a personal opinion, I don't consider anyone who steals to be a smart person when many times all they have to do is ask the right person to buy it for them or give them one.
And yes, a transgender/crossdresser can be a very smart theif and I sincerely hope they learn a better way before they end up in prison in a cage.
I wasn't talking about a ts/tg thief in particular. It gets a little irritating when people assume that you're an idiot because you do things that most people think are stupid. I'm not entirely sure i'm making sense, my brain is fried. In fact, ignore this post. Or don't. Either way is good.
Yes, in a way... there are people that tend to see themselves as both male and female but also neither of the genders. I forget the term for it but if you check out the Transgender... forum, it is mentioned somewhere there.
no, and that is NOT what I said. Quit picking for scabs where there are none! John had no problem with it and used the term liberally (really, really liberally, I got tired of it) like bitch, perhaps she male has a special subculture connotation we don't get. Like, my co worker can use dyke. She is self identified as a baby dyke. I can't use the term first, because I don't know the lay of the landscape, so to speak. Exception: Dyke on Bikes TM
I tend to think it is the female influence of the brain that is so brasen about discussion on this subject. The male influence coming from a long history of evolvemental DNA traits seems to be relegated to closed conversations IN PERSON between males only and this seems to make sex a topic for joking or sarcasm online instead of intellectual discussion. So I will relate I think any sarcastic comments made towards alternative lifestyle people as being influenced by male brain plane which is probably lower about where the mouth is instead of the eyes. So I applaud (clapping now) any comments.
i saw a girl once who was a fully functioning female by birth with a very large clitoris that somehwat resembled a very small penis. i wonder if that was the inspiration of this thread? in which case, i'm sure some people find it bizarre or uncomfortable to look at, some people are turned on by it. just like everything else.
Genderfucker, genderqueer, gender neutral, gender variant or gender diverse, depending on the person. Often genderqueer people use gender neutral pronouns, such as zie/ze [pronounced "Z" and used toe replace "she" or "he"], hir [pronounced "here" and used to replace "his", "her" and "him"], zir [pronounced "zeer" and used to replace "his", "her" and "him"] and co [used replace all gendered pronouns].
