Can you become transgender

Answer 1

You often don't become anything 'gender' - whatever gender you have is built in. You can learn or realize that you are transgender but becoming has nothing to do with it. It's like having brown eyes or being right-handed; an innate part of who you are. However, if you see at least some forms of transgenderism as a choice, then you can choose it. That said, most are born with their gender feelings and leanings.

So you don't, at least not typically, and not in a direct manner. You don't jump up one morning going "Hey, I want to despised and hated by people everywhere, I like the idea of being a pariah just because I see myself differently than other people do, give me more of that!." It's like having blue eyes or speaking your native language or humans walking upright on 2 legs instead of on 4s: it just is. You can choose to act upon it, or you can choose to study your own feelings but you can't choose to be transgendered. You is or you ain't.

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Most people, if you ask them "are you a boy or a girl?", have 0 hesitation, they don't have to think about it, they don't even have to look down - they know it in their heart or head and instantly "I'm a ______."

A transgender person may be a person who believes their sex and/or gender are a blend (on a scale) and not the binary we are all taught is 'the truth." They may also be transsexual, a person who's brain says "I'm a ____" but their physiological sex is the opposite. Then there are those that feel they are both sexes/genders - depending on the time and situation, these are often crossdressers (aka transvestites.) There is a small population that get off on being dressed as the opposite sex - generally these are called fetishists by the CDs and TGs; they may or may not be, but trying to explain to your wife that it's not about sex, when for these few it is, is quite confusing.

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If you have to stop for even a second to think about the question "are you a boy or a girl?" it's likely you are transgender. Take time to study yourself and get in contact with others who are like you, maybe even go to a therapist to help you deal with society's problems with transgenderism (you don't have a problem, society does); if you don't hesitate, be glad you don't have to fight society to be you - you aren't TG.

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Not really. you cannot become one, it's more like something you either ARE, or you are not, however, it is possible to have very intense transgender feelings, desires and not take action on them.

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From what I understand it is possible to be transgender or have transsexualism and not realize it. Usually these people will know their whole lives that something is not exactly right and just not know what it is that isn't right. It also appears that some people have no question about not being transgender before they hit puberty and suddenly during puberty everything seems to go wrong and they then begin to feel, and continue to feel, that something is wrong or went wrong and now continues to be.

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Pearson Press has a book, called "Introduction to Psychology, Third Custom Edition" (revised 2009), which addresses sexuality, heredity, and Biology, to an extent. According to that particular book, the writers believe the consensus that individuals are born with a predisposition to gender and sexuality. Two main theories are proposed: one is that it's genetic in nature, and the other is that it's neurobiological in nature.

However, the same book indicates that heredity does not necessitate any particular choice or compulsion; and, over time, thanks to a phenomenon called "neuroplasticity", the brain will change, based on what we learn, to accommodate that information.

Several other sexual and gender-based identity theories are proposed; such as the theory of a social schema that teaches us which gender we better fit, and a certain psychosexual form of development by which we learn, at a certain age, that we are permanently either one gender, or the other. In other words, we may unconsciously accept that certain factual indications about ourselves actually mean that we are more, or less, like one gender or the other.

While the consensus is that reassignment therapies can fail, and can cause worse trauma, it would only be fair to note that certain therapies are the only ones that have been studied. Furthermore, no greater experimentation or research has been done on other alternative therapies.

Finally, WorldNetDaily has an archived article, regarding a British man who thought he was a male-to-female transsexual, and realized that he was simply sexually confused and needed counseling. While that may not be the case for every transsexual, gay person, or bisexual individual, one could argue that it could provide valuable information for further study, which may help people who feel a compulsion to these tendencies, to find a way to make a transition to "normalcy" easier to accept and become accustomed to.

Now, a person is born with transsexualism, when they actually have that condition. However, anyone can choose to be transition (with or without surgery) - just crossdress on an on-going basis and change your name. Transsexuals persons tend to hate their original genitals, want them gone, and want to blend in entirely as a full member of the corrected sex.

Answer 2

No. No more than you can become Spanish or grow a third eye. Being transgender is not a choice, it's not a disease, it's not an illness. It's just describes a difference between your self-perception and that of society-at-large.

Answer 3

You either are or you aren't, and it comes at birth and stays with you the rest of your life. There are no artificial means to make yourself transsexual either. The surgery is regulated enough as to only let true transsexuals have it. And this is good, because the surgery is completely irreversable and can ruin a false transsexual's life.

If you are questioning whether or not you are transsexual, you can see a gender therapist for confirmation. If you happen to be so, you can transition.

Answer 4

"Transgender" means that a person chooses to dress or lives as the opposite gender of what they were raised as (assuming a gender binary) and what is implied by their sex. For example someone who is male and was raised as a boy would be considered transgendered if they identify as a girl and have no plans nor desire for corrective surgery.

"Transgender" implies that the person will never take any steps to assume a physical form more traditionally associated with their gender identity (i.e. no hormones, no surgery). "Transsexual" implies a person who has taken or will take steps (i.e. hormones, surgery, etc.) to change their body. You can eliminate the lifestyle of transgenderism by choosing to not dress nor live as a woman, and you can eliminate transsexualism with surgery.

However, the short answer is simply that you can't stop transsexualism. You can choose to stop being transgender if you chose that. You cannot stop identifying as your true gender, whatever it is. It is analogous to how gay people can't stop being gay. You can act as if you are straight (date/get married to a member of the opposite gender), have kids, etc., but acting a certain way doesn't change your identity. Similarly, you can ignore your inborn transsexualism or the factors that made you choose transgenderism, but it won't actually make either go away.

I'm going to add a bit of advice to this answer. Ignoring this won't make it go away, and you will likely be miserable. It is best to figure out your gender identity, and how you want to address it. A lot of people don't even take hormones or have surgery, but acknowledging yourself is important.

Answer 5

It's something one must only be born with. If you aren't trans now, you probably won't become trans. It is mostly due to your body getting an error in it's DNA, and getting to many of the wrong hormones. One who is Female to Male, has extra amounts of testosterone, and one who is male to female has extra amounts of estrogen. This results in literally feeling that they were born the wrong sex, and many people feeling this way will try to cross over (trans) to the opposite gender. Hence the name transgender.

Though it should be noted one who crosses physically to the opposite gender is actually called transsexual. Transgender is only being as of the opposite sex, even just as pretending behind an avatar, or book author using a fake name. However, today's society merged them to basically meaning the same thing anyways, so it doesn't really matter.

Answer 6

By growing up and deciding if she needs to take hormones and/or get surgery.

Answer 7

No. Transgender people are born that way. But you can transition to make your body match your identity.

Answer 8

A person born female cannot become a transgender woman. Transgender women are born males.