transsexuals.

Viewpoint 2: transsexuals don't know what it feels like to be either a man or a woman.

I tend to side with the second one myself, even though it looks a bit pessimistic and depressing when stated like that. However, that doesn't apply to libido; from what I've read, libido changes are one of the most noticeable results (to the patient, at least) of hormone therapy.

Daft pseudo-philosophical aside to the above viewpoints: do *any* of us know what it's like to be a {man,woman}, or do we only know what it's like to be ourselves?

(i almost typed CKY underwear...)

I've a close friend who's a post-op F2M - he says now that he's "a man" he's coming to terms with emotional issues he couldn't address when he was seen as being female.

My lady-parts are *really* nice.

No one can ever know what it's like to be "a man" or "a woman". There's more going on than how much testosterone is flooding your system. Certainly if one is socialized as female all his life, his experience of being "a man" would be different than that of someone treated as male from birth.

From the conversations I've had with one M2F transsexual in particular, what Nabisco mentions, plus those who feel a kind of erotic attraction to the idea of being the other sex, are not uncommon. The one transsexual I've got to know well clearly wasn't in those categories at all, but was someone who was desperately uncomfortable and unhappy with the male aspects of their body as long as she can remember, i.e. from a very young age, and especially since the onset of puberty. She absolutely knew it was all wrong, and very horrible, and had always felt that she needed a different body.

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The follow-up was the doctor was trying to make this some big case for himself, to prove his theories, etc., and it turned out he was totally wrong. I think the mother ended up committing suicide, too.

the michael also said that [s]he went to one of h[er/is] daughters' plays at college and walked up to her father [her "other dad"] in the queue and chatted away to him and the dude didn't recognise michael and asked the daughter later "who was that guy??" and he had been married to h[er/im] for seven years and michael was recounting it and laughing with tears of more than one kind, it seemed.

She (born 'he') does a great line in floral shirt-waisters.

"There are visible bits of evidence that 2010 will be remembered as the year of the transsexual. "

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/09/fashion/09TRANS.html?hp

whoa Franco!

I know several trans-people. They tend to be either really cool or like super weird. Just like anyone really

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/10/california-transgender-laws_n_1004109.html

Big ups.