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Why might a person who chose to be transgender claim they were born with transsexualism when they were not?
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∙ 10y ago
It seems to be a cover for insecurity. They may think taking the label of a group that they see as somehow more respected will get them more respect. They may not wish to admit to anything that may seem out of place in the gender role they are trying to present. They might fear they really have that other nature and may be on the defensive.
They might also misunderstand the difference between having inborn transsexualism and being a member of the transgender community. They may confuse having a more feminine nature from birth with elitism. Despite what many in the transgender community might think, a genuine transsexual person doesn't think they are better than anyone. TS women don't transition to compete with men who wear dresses nor to claim elitism over them. To them, they are simply in a separate bracket and never transgender at all.
When a person wears a dress out of merely a choice and whim, that is not the same as being born with a need to do so. So when a man chooses to dress as a woman, that is crossdressing, but when a woman born wrongly with male parts dresses as a woman, she does so because she is supposed to, and because society expects women to dress in such a manner. It is not crossdressing to wear a dress when you were supposed to be born with a vagina but had that robbed from you by a cruel twist of fate. But the problem is that it is often hard to tell the two groups apart, and it is not politically correct to tell someone else that they don't have the nature they claim to have as evidenced by their words, behavior, motives, and actions. So there is a lack of accountability.
Then there is another social dynamic at work. Masculine women have a place in the Lesbian Community. Up until they get any surgery done, they have the full welcome and support of the Lesbian Community. Even in greater society, it is not considered crossdressing for a woman to wear most of the things of men. So women can freely dress and act like men without being forced to disown their gender. However, men have not experienced the same gender liberation as women, and the Gay Community often shuns or rejects feminine men, though not always, and that is getting better. So these guys may take over transsexual groups and turn them into transgender groups. They feel so rejected that they must take on the label of another group. So you see more problems with male to female pseudo-transsexuals than with female to male pseudo-transsexuals. Butch women already have a place in society, but soft men don't, so they don't have to define themselves as something else to find acceptance.
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∙ 6y agoIf a person claims to be born with transgenderism, you should take them at their word.
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What age do you need to be to be a transsexual?
Actually, there is no age, since you are either born with the condition of transsexualism or you are not. The whole purpose of hormones and surgery are to treat/cure this condition and to eliminate transsexualism. When your body matches who you are, you are technically no longer a transsexual. That said, there really is no specific age to come out as having transsexualism. Most know as early as age four. In the past, children who expressed such feelings received severe discipline for having them, and thus learned to repress them for many years. Now schools are being forced to allow children to be enrolled as the gender they believe they are. Unfortunately, these students are being welcomed under the banner of "transgendered," despite having transsexualism instead, and despite needing to be recognized as if they were fully born as a member of the sex/gender they are presenting. This illustrates the harm associated with lumping transsexual individuals under the transgender community umbrella. It often robs transsexual persons of being seen as a full member of the gender which they claim as their own, and such lumping trivializes what may be the worst form of gender dysphoria there is.
Can you claim a person?
no. a long time ago, you can claim a person as a slave. but since the declaration of independence, you can no longer claim a person.
Can you claim a grandparent as dependent on taxes?
You can claim them if you provided for the person the year you want to claim him or her.
How does a person deal with transsexualism on a daily basis?
To be honest, you don't. I mean, before you realize you are trans, you ignore it, try to make life work, maybe find excuses as to why your life isn't working. Then you may come to partial knowledge and mistake yourself for gay/les/bi or transgender. But you then realize the conflict is not with your sexual orientation, and the transgender route doesn't do enough for you. You might find that the transgender path is too weak for your needs or doesn't scratch the itch you have for completion. Then once you discover you have transsexualism, not sexual preference issues or garden variety "gender variance," and that you want conformity, not variance, then you seek out professionals to try to get your medical and surgical needs met. However, you generally find obstacles and condescending treatment from the very ones who claim to want to "help" you. Very often, they are more concerned with pusing some LGBT agenda that doesn't benefit you and only gives you lip service, than they are of giving you the hormones and surgery to cure your transsexualism so you can function the SAME as someone who was born with the physical sex that matches the gender identity you have. You may find that more transsexual people are committing suicide *because of* the transgender community and being forcibly lumped with dissimilar people against your will and treated as transgender rather than as a typical woman (or man if you are FtM). If you are lucky enough to cut through the nonsense and bureaucracy, and you avoid getting pulled into the dysfunctionality and TG or LGBT politics, then you can get your surgery, take your hormones, correct most of your paperwork, and keep all the trans stuff that you never asked for to yourself. You might want to work within it and try to better it, but you may find that it only serves to destroy your reputation, cause burn-out, and result in nothing good that lasts. The TG movement runs counter to what people who were actually born with transsexualism (and didn't choose to distort their well-adjusted life and become transgender, which is essentially pseudo-transsexualism). So if you manage to get your transition without anyone knowing or you stay pre-op and hide that and never are with anyone, then you might get into a frame of mind where you ignore everything and have no conflict. Also, if you are a traditional TS who believes in only two genders, opposes homosexuality, opposes all recreational transgenderism that doesn't result in surgery with full assimilation, society will make it hard for you. Certain folks on the Left deliberately set it up that way, to estrange you from your best allies in the Mainstream/Cisgender Community, and forcibly lump you with those you may disagree with or find repulsive, all while deliberately outing you and destroying your reputation to cause your best allies to think they hate you. If the 90% just realized you had a birth defect and not a mental illness, choice, perversion, or type of homosexuality, and could see you are not LGBT or part of the TG community, they'd accept you, and based on your merits as an individual, not with minority group, gang, or group of bullies you belong to.
Can person who does not know about a reward claim it?
A person who does not know about a reward cannot claim it for the simple fact that they would have no idea they were a winner. If someone informed them of their reward, they would then be able to claim it.
How did a person claim roman citizenship?
You did not claim Roman citizenship. if you were born in Rome and a freeman, you were automatically a Roman citizen. There were non-Romans who obtained Roman citizenship. However, they did not claim it. During the Roman Republic the senate granted citizenship. During the period of rule by emperors it was the emperor who granted it. It was the Romans who chose who they wanted to grant citizenship to. Therefore, non-Romans did not claim it.
Can one person claim head of household and the other claim mortgage interest?
yes
When making a claim for payment after a patient has died the claim or bill must be sent to what person or administrator?
Send it to the administrator of the estate of the deceased person.
What happens if I didn't claim income and the IRS finds out?
if the IRS finds out that a person does claim income, the IRS can audit the person. If audited, the person will have to go in person to their local IRS agency and explain the situation.
What happens if you die and you have no family to claim your body?
If a deceased person has no person(s) to claim the body, the body will be buried at a State site. Records will be kept in the event a person does claim the person. If not, any property the person owned will become State property and most often auctioned off, or in the case of a home will be returned to a bank.
Is a transgender woman a guy?
Define real. A "she-male" is most often a person born with both male parts and xy chromosomes; the person either has breast implants or gets hormones to grow breasts and reduce male characteristics (beard etc), in defining a she-male most cases they do not have genital reconstruction surgery so they still have a penis (and in some cases it still works like normal) so, no they are not a female. You are probably mistaking a she-male for a transgendered woman (not to be confused with a transsexual woman). The word female should never be used after the word transgender. They are women but can never be female. Being female means having XX chromosomes and a vagina. A transgender person is anyone who is gender variant. Such a person may live as the other sex and never get corrective surgery, or they may consider themselves as part of a continuum, where they are not completely one or the other. There is controversy about whether this includes those born with transsexualism who get the surgery and seek to eliminate it. The transgender and LGBT lobby says they are, because that would be politically convenient and artificially inflate their numbers, all while colonizing a group of people who have views they feel are inconvenient for them. As for those who call themselves transsexuals, they are divided. Some have no problem with being called transgender, while others still claim they have more in common with cisgender people than transgender or LGBT folks. So transgender is mostly a political label. A transsexual person was born with one set of male or female parts and often gets surgery on these to closely duplicate the organs of the opposite sex. They are a 'real' woman, nature just didn't give them parts to match their brain. They do not wish to be both or in between, they want to be one or the other. Transsexual persons never choose to be anything, it's something in their heads generally from birth. There are also intersexed persons who's birth sex organs were ambivalent or both (rare) and some have mixed sex chromosomes: some have XXY some XYY, some XXYY, a few are just X or Y. Science is learning that sex is more than parts or chromosomes or eve sex and chromosomes, or even sex AND chromosomes; the central nervous system also plays heavily into sex. Gender is more than parts also; it's been used synonymmous to sex, but for clarity it is more related to social role than physical sex.
Is a transsexual woman a post-op male or a post-op female?
Actually, "transsexual woman" would refer for to a TS woman before her surgery (pre-op) to get the female parts she believes she was always supposed to have. After surgery, a transsexual woman would be just a woman. The gender after the word transsexual always refers to how the person sees themselves and the body they believe they were supposed to have all along. It would be easier if people would think of transsexualism like a birth defect or medical condition. Instead of "men becoming women," it would be seen as women fixing a birth condition. Likewise with the transsexual men being men born with the wrong parts rather than women becoming men. Just like a diabetic woman is considered a woman, why can't a TS woman be seen as a woman who was born with this condition which robbed her of female parts and who needs surgery to eliminate this? Post-op is used in the context of the transsexualism condition, not the transgendered lifestyle. Persons with transsexualism usually get the surgery eventually, while those with transgenderism usually do not. If someone is post-op, then technically, they are not a TS any longer, just a full member of their surgically corrected sex. Many assume the surgery to be medically unnecessary. However, those who genuinely have transsexualism need this surgery to prevent suicide, live the same lives as person born with the correct parts for their gender, be legally recognized as who they have always been, and to have the same lives as if they never had this condition. The surgery only changes the physical sex (the body) to the extent possible and has no bearing on gender (who you are). The official name for the corrective surgery is sex-reassignment, since it changes the body. Changing the gender would require brain surgery. A transsexual person is the opposite gender of the sex their body was born with. A transsexual man was born with a 'female' body, a transsexual woman was born with a 'male' body. Pre-op, non-op, post-op has nothing to do with who you are. Surgery or the lack of it doesn't change who you are. The 'sex' label at the end relates to who you are, not what you have below. Those with transsexualism are either pre-op or post-op, while TGs are non-op. Someone who genuinely has transsexualism will want the same parts as others with the same gender identity. Not all will be able to get surgery, but ability has nothing to do with motives nor desire. TG persons on the other hand don't typically identify with the "other gender" enough to want the corresponding parts for what they claim as their gender. Transgenderism is more about gender role or expression than gender identity. A MtF transgender person lives as a woman and will likely keep male genitals for life. A FtM transgender person lives a partially masculinized life. However, it is polite to refer to them as the gender they are expressing. Why would someone waste money on a dress if they didn't want to be called female pronouns?
