Transsexualism

Yes, once they change their sex on their birth certificate. It depends on the state and country they are in, some do not recognize the surgery as changing sex, others do.

The term was coined by German sexologist, Dr Magnus Hirschfeld in 1923 when writing about the case of his patient, Lili Elbe

As of 2007 she was, she was writing a book 'The Lady Regrets' and living in upstate New York.

A transexual is someone who believes him or herself to be the other gender from the one he/she was born, and undergoes hormone therapy and surgery to change the appearance of the body to the other gender (gender reassignment surgery). A preop transexual is someone who has decided to undergo gender reassignment surgery, has started taking hormone therapy, and usually has been living as the other gender for 1-2 years and undergoing therapy, but has not yet had the surgery. The hormones can alter the appearance of the preop transexual, making them appear more like the other gender. For example, men taking female hormones can stop growing facial hair, lose muscle mass, and become less aggresive. Females taking male hormones can start getting facial hair, gain muscle mass, and have a deeper voice. Some preop transexuals decide to stop and this point and live as the other gender with the hormones, without undergoing surgery. After gender reassignment surgery, the person will then legally be the gender they have been altered to be.

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I imagine bars, clubs, the internet, the subway, a taxi, diners, fancy restaurants, the auto shop, next door, really any place where you would go to meet normal people the chances are about even with meeting the one person for anyone. No matter who they are.

I always find this type of question to be degrading to transsexual women. If someone accepted TS women as equal to other women, they would not ask. Transsexual women want to be treated the same as other women, not objectified and fetishized because of their condition they are trying so hard to eliminate, and in some cases hide. If you think someone has transsexualism, then it is usually best to never mention that. Just let them think you like them for them and because you assumed them to be the same as other women. The notion of meeting someone because they have transsexualism is just as offensive to transsexual people as someone trying to be with someone of a different race because of their race, and acting creepy about it the entire time.

In and of itself, transexuality has no negative impact on anyone. It is only in the behavior of the people in the relationships and the acceptance, or lack thereof, that society shows them, that problems occur. Bad parenting is bad parenting. Negative relationships and their attending behavior are the problem, NOT whatever "ality" in question.

Problems that often occur are the same ones you see in non-transexual relationships: irresponsibility, unwillingness to compromise, selfishness/self-centeredness, situational blindness. All are the same for any parent. Part of parenting is a willingness to be open, to care about someone else as muchor more than you do for yourself, to admit mistakes. A lot of the time, transexuals have lived in pain for many years, and when they have the chance to fix it, they do so without working with those around them. The problem that most people don't see is that the transexuality is not the problem, but a complication.

A major sore spot for families dealing with transexuality is society's acceptance or lack thereof. Like any situation that is not in the average person's daily life, the idea of gender not matching physical sex makes no sense; 'you are what you are.' Note though, the same could be said of getting an education, starting a business, getting married, and any other number of cases where a person makes a major change in their life away from where they have been. In addition children see a need to "be the same as everyone else" at different stages of growth, {peer pressure} and like any other thing we don't like, they have to learn to just accept and walk on.

Gender related issues don't have to damage a family, they can make it more forgiving, more accepting, and can teach it that tolerance is not just a word. Damage is not inevitable, pain is. But change is painful. It's also part of being part of a family. If you are in a relationship and are blaming transexuality for the problems, take another look; if you look close enough it's the behavior of the people involved, not the transexuality.

Note: children without gender issues know very clearly what their sex and gender are, so having someone else around whose gender either doesn't or did not match their physical sex will not make them gender-confused alone. Can someone convince you with words that you are green? Even if they are green, will that make you green? Transexuality is not contagious, it's not bad, it's not anything besides a description for people and how they choose to act and choose to have their bodies changed.

No. All information points to her being a birth/genetic woman including having birthed 2 children AS a female {the recent FtM person birthing a child did not have GRS/SRS before the birth and therefore was a female at the time. Since Mary Carillo had the children as a female and no published info about any M2F gender change being able to conceive much less birth children, she is not a 'transwoman'.)

Nobody knows it, because being a transsexual is a very delicate and personal thing. The number of those ones who have already done the surgery also varies from country to country. Some scientists tell that there are one transsexual per 30. 000 births.

Because your body has spent 20 to 60 years soaked in high levels of the hormones of the opposite sex to what you are taking now - you are swimming against the stream. Most likely lower amounts of hormones will reduce your reactions and your doctor can increase the levels slowly. Talk to your GP, your endocrinologist and your therapist.

Why you get sick from the hormones depends on the exact hormones given and your body. If you are taking spironolactone as a hormone blocker, you could be suffering an electrolyte imbalance. It is a potassium sparing diruetic, and you may have to increase the sodium intake or lower your potassium intake. Medical tests can determine this.

Another possibility is that your doctor prescribed Provera (or PremPro which contains Provera). Provera is really not a good choice for a progestin, especially in transsexual women, and it can have some very bad side-effects. The side-effects may include increased aggression, irritability, suicidality, loss of vision, sore gums, digestive disturbances, hair loss, deepening of the voice, etc. If you are taking Provera and experiencing problems, you should stop taking it. You can get by not taking a progestin (you don't have a uterus), or you can switch to another type such as micronized progesterone or Duphaston (if you can get it in your country).

A transsexual is a human wishing to change from female to male, or the other way around. When performed under supervised conditions this transition is done in steps, last step being surgery on their genitals, to make them match the gender they are switching to. A post-op transsexual is simply a person who've undergone all the exams, the hormone therapy and also had that operation.

no she isn't a transsexual an email was sent to the papers by a source but the source was lying i think you would know if she was a trannie from love sex and magic with j.t go on ciara don't let mean people like that get you down...

I personally would not care and have no problem going with Ciara is preop or postop and see what jumps out And divorce and looking for that special someone who like to cake and wrestle in morning with that special nephew or nieces. I would still date Ciara with a doubt

If a female to male TS man hasn't had surgery yet, then yes. If it is a male to female transsexual (a transsexual woman), then no, since they can never have female internal organs.

In some states, yes the state recognizes the sex change as legal and thereby marriage of a genetic/birth man to a Male to Female transexual as legal. Others do not and without same sex marriage a man may not marry a Male to Female transexual.

No. The penis has nothing to do with who you are as a person or your nature. So if you don't already have the nature and being of a girl, you won't become one if that body part is removed. Those who get the surgery already think and act like a girl.

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Yes and no it depends on the state. Most states will allow a post-op transsexual marry a person of the opposite sex of their new gender and will still honor a marriage previous to gender reassignment surgery.

A transsexual man is a man wrongly born with female parts. He would tend to be short, his pelvis might be a bit wide in proportion to the rest of him, and his shoulders may seen narrow. His Adam's apple might be a little smaller since he may not have started taking hormones early enough in life. They may try to overplay their part, meaning they may grow beards, cuss a lot, and smoke cigars and/or pipes. Not all go for the hyper-masculine.

However, this really means nothing, since a person is who they present as, and if a TS man didn't want to be treated and regarded as a man, he would not live as one. If he wants you to know he once had female parts, he will tell you, and if he doesn't tell you, it is not your business.

It depends what you are calling a transsexual and what you mean by "liking" them. If you mean a genuine transsexual person and they have had the surgery (or they are getting it and you won't touch them sexually until they've had it), then no. Just think of them as anyone with any other birth defect or medical condition. Does it make you gay to like a woman with cancer?

If you are referring to male-born transgender persons who like having and keeping a penis, yes, it likely means you are gay. The fact that they love their penis means they have a male emotional core inside. When two people who act and think like men (including some effeminate variety of man) both have penises and have sex, it is gay sex. A man or his male partner putting on a dress doesn't turn gay sex into any other kind.

If you merely like their appearance or admire their style or courage, no, it doesn't mean you are gay. It just means you have taste or love diversity.

A sex change can be preformed to allow a person to become either sex, yes.

As of 2006, Dr. Cinzia Marchese in Italy used Stem cells to grow a natural functioning vagina for 2 women. With this in mind, I am confident that the technology to recreate a vagina, uterus, and even ovaries for MtF transexuals is within a decade's reach. (In all actuallity, it could happen right now with the proper support.)

Proper SRS is at hand.

When this occurs, yes, we will be able to become pregnant, as well as say 'goodbye' to ANNOYING hormone regimens.

( I placed my edit above the below explanation because the technology does indeed exist.)

Under present available surgeries to the public at large, this is not available. The Sex Reassignment Surgery operation provides a neo-vagina from the penis, but no uterus. It will be possible with stem-cell therapy when we are able to grow replacement organs; it will be possible for a woman (biological or not) to have ovaries, a uterus, a vagina and fallopian tubes (and attending parts) lab grown and have them transplanted into the woman without fear of rejection.

All this will possible with out using cloning. Without more research into stem-cell therapy (non-blastocyte and blastocyte), personal organ replacement will not be possible. This same technology will stop many deaths because there aren't enough organ donors for people on transplant lists. An organ made form your own flesh will be a miracle for thousands, even millions of people.

(Further addendum - Obsidia)

The first mostly successful Uterus transplant, from a deceased donor to a woman who had a Hysterectomy due to cancer was achieved a few years ago. The uterus functioned properly, and menstruated regularly for about 6 months before an infection set in causing rejection.

Rejection of donated organs is caused by the body not recognizing the tissue as 'self'. Immunosuppressants are typically used to prevent rejection, but runs a greatly increased risk of infection. One way to alleviate that dilemma is thru microchimerism. In microchimerism procedures, tiny tissue samples from the donor are injected under the skin of the recipient months prior to the transplant. With virtually no chance of infection, the immune system slowly gets used to the foreign tissue and starts recognizing it as 'self'. Once confirmed that the foreign tissue is no longer under attack by the immune system, organ transplants from the donor can occur with virtually no risk of rejection, and little to no need for immunosuppressants.

Using microchimerism, MtFs and FtMs could donate reproductive organs to each other. Much research would need to be done on how to perform the procedure, particularly on moving the nerves for best sensation. Donors should preferably also somewhat resemble the recipient, so that any child born to the recipient would look like it's parents.

There is a large disparity in the numbers of MtF and FtM, with MtFs outnumbering FtMs 3 to 1. Due to the requirements of microchimerism, and the limited lifespan of the donated organs outside a living body. Postmortem donors are unlikely. As such, 2/3rds of MtFs would not beable to receive donor organs.

It may be possible that some women who have decided that they wish to no longer have children. May wish to donate their uterus and one ovary (keeping one to regulate their own hormone levels) to MtFs. This could be a possible solution to the disparity between FtM and MtF numbers for transpantation.

Finally, research has shown, that injecting stemcells into a sterilized ovary will cause the stem cells to form into new eggs. Stems cells can be (and often are) artificially created by chemically treating skin cells. Thus MtFs having received donated uterus and ovary(ies) could in theory, carry and give birth to a child that is genetically their own. To my knowledge no similar research has been done on stem cells with testes.

These are each pieces to a puzzle, no one has ever assembled. While each in their own is true as it is stated, they have never been combined. All combinations of the procedures are purely hypothical. Hopefully however, they will not be hypothetical for long.

They could....a "transsexual" is a male or female that becomes the opposite sex, or dresses like such. A hermaphrodite may have both.

If a transsexual is a man then there usually is a point where he goes for a sex change operation and gets a sort of vagina.

Yes. Most with transsexualism are born that way, they usually knew they had it before age 6, and they get the surgery to stop having transsexualism. The condition of transsexualism is not the same as the lifestyle of transgenderism. Transgender is mostly a choice and is a fairly recent concept. Transsexualism is a diagnosis while transgenderism is mostly a self-identity.