Transsexualism

I'm going to paraphrase the HBSOC - Harry Benjamin Standards of Care

# Legal age where you live

# 12 months of HRT if not contraindicated

# 12 months of successful continuous living in new sex (no reversions)

# psychotherapy sessions as required by recommending therapists

# Know how much it costs, the hospital stays, possible complications, and required surgery/medical actions after surgery (possible use of stent, frequent gynecological visits ..) # know that there is more than one competent surgeon - For recommendations, 1 letter from a therapist for HRT, 2 for SRS (for your good.)

- SRS (and any attending) surgery is NOT minor surgery and there is potential for bad complications no matter the competency of the doctor and nurses - it is just too invasive to not have side effects

- It will not be the same as a biological/birth females anatomy, no matter how much you want it to be. BUT ... since humans vary so much there is no "average" vagina .. even biological/birth females have deformations and just different proportions - life is varied.

It's $$$$$ - and almost no healthcare providers consider it necessary so it comes out of your pocket. In Canada this is different, but I understand the wait in Canada is very long.

Biggest thing to remember - your life after WILL NOT BE EASIER overall. It complicates things but if you go into it knowing all the downfalls, that results may vary and that you are adding more problems (potential and actual) to your life then you may be ready to start down this road with your therapist's help

Transsexual persons undergo surgery to correct what they see as a gross anatomical error.

Consider this, there are at least 4 components in terms of gender. There is the physical sex, the person's gender identity, their social role, and their sexual orientation. Your physical sex is the parts you have. Your gender identity is who you are, what you feel like, and how your brain was configured since birth. Your social role is about how you dress, how you choose to act, and what society dictates you must do. Your sexual orientation is your preference of sex partners. All four of these are separate and distinct.

When a person has transsexualism, their body and their gender identity don't match, and that causes them a great deal of pain. Since gender identity seems to be mostly hard-wired in the brain and immutable, the only other way to end the conflict would be to change the body with hormones and surgery.

Becoming a female involves hormones and surgery.

Transsexualism is an inborn medical condition, unrelated to transgenderism. Transsexuals are either women who were wrongly born with male parts, or men who were wrongly born with female parts. They fix that condition as much as they are able and get on with their lives as if they never had this condition.

Genuine transsexuals don't cross-dress. Cross-dressing is when someone dresses as what they are not. Since a TS woman, for instance, has always been a woman where it mattered most, she would not be a cross-dresser. If you want to be technical, cross-dressing is what transsexual persons are forced to do by their parents and society.

If you mean "get" in terms of how do you score them as partners, then there is nothing you can do. A transsexual woman considers herself the same as if she were born with her female body. That is the point of surgeries and all to remove the penis and give her a vagina like other women. Such a woman goes through all that to feel whole and does not do that for others. TS women who are into men (many aren't) tend to have the same tastes as other women, and the notion of a man trying to seek them out is a turn-off to them. They want to be accepted on the basis of having never been men and having been born with their vagina and all. But the trans-admirer types are turned on by the very things that most genuine TS women hate. So if you want to have a TS partner, it is just a luck of the draw, and there is nothing different there, since full assimilation is the goal.

They are a person born with the physical characteristics of a one gender who emotionally and psychologically feels that they belong to the opposite gender. They hate their original parts and need surgery as contrasted to transgendered people.

Persons actually born with transsexualism (as opposed to choosing mere transgenderism) will eventually go through hormonal drug therapy and surgery help them gain physical characteristics of the opposite gender. Under these circumstances, a transsexual woman may grow breasts from the hormonal therapy, and surgeons may use tissue from their penis to construct a working vagina (that is sterile). Current surgery doesn't allow a transsexual man to gain an active penis, but he may have breast reduction, and may have both his voice lowered and grow facial hair from hormonal therapy.

Remember, it is always considered hate speech to refer to someone who has transsexualism a gender other than what a person believes they are. A person is never their body, and pronouns ALWAYS refer to who the person is, never their body. When there is a mismatch between the soul or born-neurology and the body, the body is always wrong.

no!

No.

Are you a bipedal worm-man-cow?

On the Internet or any other places where people hang out. Try searching the city where you live in if you have transgender or transsexual clubs. It's very common in CA and they are in Hawaii and New York. The best way is search "TS dating" in a search engine. Or attend TS pageant they usually have them in San Francisco, Los Angeles even Vegas.

Since transsexual women are really just ordinary women despite the parts they never wanted below, who simply want to fix this problem and get on with life as ordinary women, you would find them in the same places as other women. That would mean at church, work, shopping, restaurants, at PTA meetings, at soccer games with their children, at salons, and so on.

Similar goes for transsexual men. Since they are really just ordinary guys, despite being born without male parts, you would find them in the same places as you would other ordinary guys. The places would include work, places of business, gyms, sporting events, places of worship, and other places where ordinary guys hang out.

The thing here is that unlike members of the transgender community, persons with transsexualism are not members of a 3rd sex. They consider their condition like a birth defect and fix it with hormones and surgery. The goal is not to become a TS, but to stop being one. You don't spend $50,000 on up just to become a 3rd sex member nor someone who is regarded as a freak. You spend all that to get to be seen as normal and a full member of the sex you believe you are. The "transsexuals" you see in porno films are mostly not real transsexuals, but male actors who might even be gay who let men play with their male parts in front of a camera.

When it comes to dating, genuine transsexual persons tend not to want men who are attracted to persons with transsexualism. How would you like someone being attracted to you only because you have a disease like AIDS or cancer? So singling someone out for the condition of transsexualism is just as degrading.

There is a paradox in this. Nearly every man who claims an attraction to TS women really don't want such women. What they want are non-op TG persons or partially feminized gay guys, since it is the unwanted penis of "transsexuals" which turns them on. Actual TS women are usually just as plain and boring to these guys as other women. They have probably met many without knowing it. Yet the admirers claim there is a difference while TS women try to destroy nearly every difference to be like other women. So why would you date someone with a difference they are actively destroying if it is that difference that turns you on? To date an actual transsexual and expect them to pour out their hormones and cancel their surgery just so you can get to indulge a fetish for partially feminized men, is quite selfish, if not outright cruel. They were not born with this life-robbing, emotionally excruciating condition just so someone could exploit their birth defect for their own sexual fantasies.

Some contend that using the term transsexual as a noun has created a fetish for persons with transsexualism. That seems to imply it is a separate identity or gender from male or female. Think of it more like you would a medical condition that these persons strive to get rid of.

I'm afraid this is not possible today. They tried in Turkey last year to transplant a uterus to a woman but she died after a few days. The organs are very delicate and to make a ovary produce eggs would probably be impossible. The eggs would of course not carry your DNA but the woman who donated them.

People who date transsexual persons and non-op transgender types do so for a number of reasons. Some just find them attractive, regardless of the body. For others, they might like non-op TG types because they want gay sex without the associated stigma. Some think they like transsexual persons when it is the non-op TG types that they like instead, since such admirers prefer male parts on their women, when TS women simply want them gone and the same life as if they were born with a vagina.

This is one of those 'nature or nuture' cases that will not be easily solved. It has not been proven as to what 'causes it', but for now the most common, or discussed reason for transsexualism is of the personality that the individual has developed. Some people claim to be born with the mindset of the opposite gender. If a person can be influenced in this, then they would have transgenderism, not transsexualism.

The realisation of one's true gender can occur at any age to anyone, for any reason.

Yes. Since transsexual men are born with female genitals and internal female sex organs, they can get pregnant before transition. That is how the two known cases of transsexual male pregnancy occurred. They quit taking male hormones and allowed their periods to return.

To prevent confusion, try to remember that when someone is referred to as a man or a woman, it has nothing to do with the body. It is who they are inside as a person and what genitals they were supposed to have. A transsexual woman was supposed to have a vagina while a transsexual man was supposed to have a penis, and nature robbed them of the proper parts. Also, try to remember to use male or female to refer to the body, and man or woman to refer to the identity and social role. Thus a transsexual woman starts out anatomically male, and a transsexual man starts out anatomically female.

However, due to the original wording of this question, someone might have been referring to the original sex. If you were born without female parts, you cannot get pregnant, and thus transsexual women can never become pregnant unless female reproductive organs were somehow transplanted.

Quick Overview of Estrogens and Testosterones:

Estrogens are a type of steroid hormones produced by both men and women. They are the conterpart of the hormone 'testosterone' which is also present in both men and women. Estrogen hormones and testerone hormones are both sex hormones, that is they affect cells of the human body in such a way that gives each of us the characteristics of a man or a woman.

Testosterone stimulates growth of muscle mass, growth of hair (especially facial and pubic), deepens the voice, and stimulates the growth of the penis and testies in children. Men generally have around fourth to sixty times more testosterone than women do.

Estrogen stimulates the cease of vertical growth, decreases the growth of muscle mass, stimulates growth of breasts, heightens voice, etc.

A balance of both these hormones, as well as all other hormones, is necessary not only for sex related reasons but also for overall health and well-being of body and mind. These two hormones "cancel" each other out so to speak. The body produces estrogen to reverse the effects of too much testosterone and vice versa.

To More Specifically Answer Your Question:

A man who takes estrogen supplementation would experience some or all, but not limited to the following:

-Increased breast size and darker nipple color, and loss or slowed growth of body hair.

-Higher voice, reduction of "Adam's apple", decrease in muscle mass, and generally more feminine type features.

-Decreased facial hair growth, slowed alopecia (balding or hair loss).

-Decrease in testicle size (not penis size)

-Decreased aggression and sex drive.

-Changes in personality - this is the most unpredictable of side-effects. Everyone is effected mentally in different ways. Sex hormones play a big role in mood and personality.

Very simply - a man who takes estrogen would gain more feminine features and lose some of his manly features. For the most part, testosterone is what makes men men and estrogen is what makes women women.

No, and where did that come from? There are awful rumors about Lady Gaga but not Katy, no....

Ummmmmm........ definitely not! She is a woman. Some people think she is a hermaphrodite but she is not.

The answer is NO! Homosexual falls in the category of sexual orientation, i.e., what gender does an individual prefer to have sex with. Transvestite is one of many terms in the category of 'gender identity', i.e., which sex do you perceive yourself to be in your brain/mind. Other terms that fall into gender identity are crossdresser and transsexual. Sexual orientation and gender identity are independent things -- and often confused.

Well, if that transsexual is into men then sure. Basically anybody can marry anybody in some states just not your blood family.

Only He himself knows that answer.

Islam has tight-as-a-drum attitude and practice towards sexual vices in general, as in Biblical days, prostitution and related offenses are a capital crime in some Islamic countries. Lesbianism is rare and might be also considered a life-threatening vice (by the authorities.) An Imam is a sort of Islamic Judge/official and also a minister. Like many religions, they don't tolerate sexual variation.

To make someone not to be proud. You yourself do not have to be proud, you have to exhibit humility.

A transexual is a person who has had a sex change. Basically where a female becomes a male and visa versa. A transgender is someone who appears as the opposite sex or is a habitual cross dresser.

There is no actually black-and-white answer to whether someone is a homosexual. It is a scale.

This answer depends on whether the transgender is considered to be of the opposite gender or of the same gender as the person who's sexuality is in question.

Gender may be defined by many factors, all of which are accurate and may be used individually:

1) primary sexual characteristics (penis=male vagina=female)

2) primary sexual characteristics after being altered by surgery (post-op)

3) desired gender (a male-to-female transexual=female, a female-to-male transexual=male)

4) legal status (what's on the driver's license or on a passport or birth certificate)

5) presentation (how does the person portray themself?) (i am intersexed without a gender id, so when i present myself as a male, i am male, and when i present myself as a female, people consider me female, even amongst those persons who know about my condition)

6) whatever the person says they are (my personal favourite): a person is the gender that they say that they are, regardless of any of the above factors. This is the most polite way of defining gender, and shows the most amount of etiquette, and is much much much more realistic than the other methods of determination.

For an example: A male who is with a male-to-female transgender is not homosexual if they consider the transgender to be female (see #'s 3,5,6 above). Said male is homosexual if the transgender is considered to be male (see #'s 1,4) above.

Trans-gender is a term that includes more then Male to Female and Female to Male transsexuals. those of us (like me) who don't fit as male or female and do not identify as the opposite of their birth sex can really make the words straight and gay meaningless. as an androgyne there is no opposite of me I have not met many others like me. so any relationship I'm in will not be able to be classed as totaly straight or gay the rest of the world may label it straight but we would know better