Ask a transsexual anything

[Violet]

Alright, I'll bite.

Violet said in the other thread that she hasn't altered her body. HRT is altering your body though, even if you haven't had surgery, and I wonder why you don't see it this way?

I have technically altered my body, I just haven't done any significant surgeries. But then, if I gorge on strawberries for 15 days, I've also altered my body... honestly, all I've done is redistribute my body fat (and gain some), women really do have an extra layer of fat

Along the same lines, why do you want HRT anyway? HRT is required by pretty much all transsexuals, but almost no non-transsexuals. Why?

Because men want to feel like men, and women want to feel like women. Transsexuals have to chemically stop their current hormones from working and/or inject a reasonable amount of their desired hormone. I love being on estrogen, it's calming, I feel and look prettier, and I have a happy glow that follows me around like it's Na'vi telling me to listen to it.

Next. People can be reasonably expected to differ over how they interoperate your gender. By being transsexual you would understand this to be the case. I as a non-transsexual have no ambiguity over my gender, it isn't a topic for open debate. With that said, I understand your gender identity causes a great deal of stress, anxiety, worry, conflict, and other problems. By definition alone a transsexual has a different gender identity to their biological gender. Do you expect people to agree with your gender identity?

No, people really can't be reasonably expected to differ over how they interpret my gender... "because she looks like a lady, talks like a lady, walks like a lady, and they're not wise: she's the devil in disguise

If you're gutting the current bi-gendered system, well... I'm all for it, but I'm still a woman, aractus I strike so far on the feminine side of gender that I deserve the title of 'woman' more than the majority of cisgendered women do

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Can you touch your toes without bending your knees?

Yes, and no: I wasn't always able to do that without straining.

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I'm not sure I understand this transgender carry on. Had I been born a female I would have just "adapted to the physical form" I happened to find myself in I wouldn't have been particularly desperate to be man.

Would you now? Had I been born a Martian, I would have just "adapted to the physical form" I happened to find myself in, I wouldn't have been particularly desperate to be a human.

You're funny

I may have been homosexual as a woman I suppose but I don't know. Was there some kind of influence on you in early life?

You might be surprised, hormones can flip who you're attracted to on its head. How do you mean?

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What is the worst stereotype you think the public has of transgendered people?

Well, list a few of them, and I'll tell you...

I actually don't hang out with 'the public' enough to really know this

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Can you do a hand stand?

Yes, but not in front you you. Maybe Nine would be more lucky

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Yucky stuff; makes me all hairy and that 'thing' down there keeps getting excited all the time because of that stuff!

Not me... but it oozes inside and becomes grossly uncomfortable. I hate semen production.

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I was just seeking your musical preference. Though, in my opinion, one (gay, straight, trans, whatever) should practice a policy of full disclosure with sexual partners about such things. After Daniel's inquisition, I thought I'd lighten the thread a bit

I'm not good at summing my musical preferences up...

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dys1_TuUmI4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNVQK3tuqsc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rntq-Eu0IuM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxPjnzsBIrc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU6iP0WLsU8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVPlOuEg8LQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH721xEFAMU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afp4jgCCzxk

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Which is good, because this is a heavily omitted list, and is mostly filled with game and anime music.