RE: Sex Change
December 12, 2015 at 1:01 pm
(This post was last modified: December 12, 2015 at 1:04 pm by Regina.)
The "trapped" feeling is a real thing. The medical term for it is "gender dysphoria", where the person feels a sense of shock, revulsion or confusion about their body before they transition. Gender identity is just that, identity, yes you can literally "feel" male or female (or both, which I'll get onto in a minute). It's down to how well you identify with the genders. A transgender woman (even pro-op living as a man) will probably identify with, feel more empathy for, and find more in common with women rather than men. Most transgender people will have this dysphoria to an extent, although it is a matter of degrees. Some transgender people only have it a bit and so they don't plan on transitioning.
I don't talk about this much, mostly because people take it even less seriously now we live in the age of Tumblr (thanks to all their fucking ridiculous pissing contest special snowflake "identities"), but my gender identity is somewhere in the "in betweens". In fact, I actually fluctuate back and forth, I go through "male" phases and "female" phases. So yes, I'm familiar with how you can "feel" a certain gender. It doesn't even have much to do with gender roles, I'm the same personality whatever my gender currently is, it's just how I'm feeling at a particular time. Personally though, I don't feel much physical dysphoria, so I have no plans for drastic transitioning, I'm very comfortable in a male body and don't get that "trapped" feeling ever. I guess I'm more of a genderfucked "female man" when I'm on a feminine stage.
I don't talk about this much, mostly because people take it even less seriously now we live in the age of Tumblr (thanks to all their fucking ridiculous pissing contest special snowflake "identities"), but my gender identity is somewhere in the "in betweens". In fact, I actually fluctuate back and forth, I go through "male" phases and "female" phases. So yes, I'm familiar with how you can "feel" a certain gender. It doesn't even have much to do with gender roles, I'm the same personality whatever my gender currently is, it's just how I'm feeling at a particular time. Personally though, I don't feel much physical dysphoria, so I have no plans for drastic transitioning, I'm very comfortable in a male body and don't get that "trapped" feeling ever. I guess I'm more of a genderfucked "female man" when I'm on a feminine stage.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
