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What of it? My hands and feet don't give me away, my hips are wide for someone born male, I never had an Adam's apple, and women's clothing fits me better than men's, and even before I started hormones I frequently was referred to as female pronouns.
It funny how people suddenly bring up stuff that never matters any other time. If I didn't know you and you said anything about having a period and my brain would probably feel like it slammed into an invisible wall upon hearing such an unexpected thing. I'd look at your picture again "him? huh? huh."
Any doctor will be able tell your natural sex based on your skeleton. It's not a big deal in terms of one's lifestyle and personal culture, but the actual truth of the matter will always remain physically.
I'm only talking in terms of physicality. It's not a cultural or personal by which people make their choices involving their person.
Despite what some people may think, transsexuals aren't delusional. We know what we were born as and what our bodies are like. We know what the limits of medical science are. No, we cannot fully change into the opposite sex. Obviously. Part of handling dysphoria should be accepting reality as it is now, and not expect there to be a magic cure all. However, there are things we can change and there are generally enough to be able to live comfortably as the sex we see ourselves as.
Phantom pain originates in the brain and in the spinal cord as a result of a miscommunication of nervous system signals between your spinal cord and your brain. The nerve connections are still there, but they're damaged and no longer attached to the amputated body part. Nerves in your spinal cord and brain basically end up having to re-wire themselves when they lose signals from the missing body part.
I think the point is acceptance and it's a good thing.Despite what some people may think, transsexuals aren't delusional. We know what we were born as and what our bodies are like. We know what the limits of medical science are. No, we cannot fully change into the opposite sex. Obviously. Part of handling dysphoria should be accepting reality as it is now, and not expect there to be a magic cure all. However, there are things we can change and there are generally enough to be able to live comfortably as the sex we see ourselves as.
I don't know where people are getting nonsense that we're being "dishonest". That's very insulting. I am what I say I am and my genitals are quite frankly none of your damn business. You wouldn't want people inquiring about your body like that, but people think it's cool to single trans people out for that sort of dehumanization. It's irrelevant to social situations and daily life, unless you're a sex worker or whatever.
It's not always that easy. As I said even forensic anthropologist will sometimes have a hard time telling and sometimes they can't, and forensic anthropologist are top experts when it comes to human bones.
Amd here's some more to complicate your vision of a clean, nice, and neat Nature.
It's become clear to me in this thread we must stop thinking of the mind and body as separate. The mental is physical. Even something like an abusive childhood, you won't see physical indications on adults who suffered this, but the abuse is very likely to have caused malformations in the brain and lead to chemical imbalances. We can't see that, but it is physically there.
It's obvious that sex/gender/whatever you want to call it is more than just DNA and karotypes. There's a whole social dimension and internal dimension of it. People mostly go by visual cues and how your voice sounds when determining if they view you as a male or female. For trans man, testosterone is almost always enough for us to be able to be accepted as a man by society, even without any surgery. It's a very powerful thing. But even though estrogen doesn't tend to have profound effects as testosterone, most of the trans women I've known have been able to move comfortably through society as women, especially if they started hormone therapy at least by their 20s or so. It's obvious to me that hormones make the biggest difference, even more than surgery. Of course, many of us are so blessed that we "pass" even without hormones. I know of a lot of people like that. My oldest friend is a trans woman and she looked like a straight up girl even before transitioning. She would be harassed in the men's room over it. I remember her prom photo with her girlfriend in high school and she just looked like a lesbian in a suit and was more feminine looking than her gf. Lol.
Sports I'll admit is a problem. But pronouns? How hard is that one really? Why is it even important to know if you can't tell?
Those are mostly recent controversies that fanatical activists have forced on everyone. Trust me, tons of us are against what's going on in women's sports. It's like I can't stand Caitlyn Jenner but she represents a large number of us when she speaks against it.
As someone who suffers from anxiety and panic disorder, I can attest to that.
I do really think we need to start acknowledging hormones as seriously heavy weight drugs, and in a serious way. They do mess with our mental states, they do alter our bodies, and are so potent that even MtFs can end up having psuedo-periods.
Yup. But hormones are just thrown around like confetti and people don't take it seriously. It's bizarre that we've been using cross sex hormones to treat transsexuals for a century now but there's hardly any studies on their effects. The FDA still hasn't approved them for this use, so it's off-label. (That's actually why health insurance was able to get out of covering it, because it was "experimental" and off-label.) Many of the effects you only learn about because you've experienced it. They continue to change your body a lot after the first few years, but they (doctors) act like all the big changes happen in the first 2-3 years and after that it mostly stops. That's bs. I'll be 8 years on T this month and I noticed big changes were still happening to me about 2 years ago. After all, puberty itself takes most of a decade to go through, so why would it be different here.
I do worry they may be heightening their child's chances of being transgender.
I think their kids will have problems, either way. I know many of them with infants and toddlers tell the press that their baby is perfectly healthy. But I guarantee that many of those kids will end up with mental health and developmental conditions at the least. The time to have kids (naturally) is before you medically transition, is all I can say. I think it is cruel to play such games with a human being before they're even born. I knew I never wanted to be pregnant so I was totally fine with giving that up when I got on testosterone. It's a rather disgusting and disturbing thought to me, although I recognize that motherhood is a wonderful thing for women in general. I mean, I want to be able to father kids, not pop them out. I thought that was the point of being transsexual.
I get that.I mean, I want to be able to father kids, not pop them out. I thought that was the point of being transsexual.
I'm hesitant to say they will have mental health issues. But I also grew up with the idea that interracial coupling shouldn't happen to protect the kids from hypothetical agonies that just don't manifest like they think.
No, the only problems that a mixed race person encounters due to being mixed is society's prejudices. My dad was black and my mom was white, so certainly I know all about that. People treating me and my mom cruelly over it (both black and white) caused me a lot of psychological trauma that caused me to be very resentful and racist myself until I personally underwent a healing process and reconciled my heritage with myself. Now I proudly say I'm mixed and don't feel a need to pigeonhole myself into "black" or "white". I'm just a human being. That stuff goes back to America's nasty history of racial obsession, which I don't really find in most other areas of the world, so it's a social issue. "Black" and "white" are made up racial caste labels and don't exist outside of that.