Can a transman without a penis ever experience life like a genetic male?

[Skyanne]

I still don't get this, you can't experience any life but your own, so why worry about it? Just try and make the best with what you can have.

[Rock_chick]

Biology is not destiny.

[wheat thins are delicious]

I still don't get this, you can't experience any life but your own, so why worry about it? Just try and make the best with what you can have.

This so so much.

[Mr.Rainey]

I think so. I think it is more like living as a male with nerve damage to his penis. I can still urinate standing and have sex so it is a different experiance not a non- normal one.

[Karla]

Guess what, I still think the way I do as I can not experience the life a guy born with correct genitals has. It just is a physical impossibility. I will get as close as I possibly can but that is what it is, close without ever quite getting there.

If so then guess what also, I can't/couldn't ever experience life like a genetic male either, transitioned or not. 

[aubrey]

Yes of course you can, and you can get much of the privilege and benefits that you may want out of that life...but there's being male and there's being "one of the guys". Sadly I don't think you can get the full experience without it, just as I won't get the same for a woman because I can't bear children, and that will always haunt me. You could say it is all in the head, but it isn't. If it was all in the head then we could simply wish to have the correct body and here it is, or conversely, wish not to be trans anymore. Using what amounts to self hypnosis to make yourself feel better about something you know isn't right or complete only creates more cognitive dissonance, the same as not transitioning. Male...yes, uber alpha one of the guys...no. So like a poster said above, just live your life and not anyone elses.

[King Malachite]

If he thinks he can then he probably can but for me personally no.  No bio male has the same experience throughout their lives so why should I?  Does it suck I can't get a female pregnant like a bio male or arouse myself or others like one or pee standing up?  Heckyeah but does that make me any less of a man?  Heck no.  I would assume depending on where a bio male is he may get treated differently because his race, religon, sexual orientation, or even favorite college football team.  I just have to make due the best I can with the cards I was dealt with.