Ahem... *I* am the one who made that statement...
The original poster is a very disturbed young woman who has been a BIG nuisance over on the Wikipedia website (a free encyclopedia website that allows visitors to edit the articles). She has vandalized transgender articles by inserting transphobic statements insinuating that transsexuals are delusional, comparing transsexuals to someone who wants to be and believes to be a rhinoceros or pink elephant, has called MTF transsexuals "men" and has used male pronouns against us, originally she made comments to a Gay transman by using female pronouns towards him and calling him "female/woman," calling him a Nazi doctor, calling his partner a ">-bleeped-<," attacking my religious beliefs (I'm very much influenced by Wicca), and has used Michael J. Bailey's book 'The Man Who Would Be Queen' in defense. She has called either me or him or both of us "jerk," "a**hole," "moron," "idiot/idiotic/idiotcy," "ignorant," "bigot," "illiterate," "stupidly wrong" (?!?!), etc., etc. Both of us have tried to be civil with her and I personally have not called her any names. To me, she is the only one who is seething with hate and anger.
She misquotes, quotes out of context, twists what you say, exaggerates what you say, etc. She also pretends to be multiple people to help her in defense and to boost her arguments.
This was my first post to her on Wikipedia (the original author of this thread):
I am sorry to have to inform you that the sources you rely on to maintain your argument that transsexual women are much less sexual are subpar and not to be taken seriously at all. A FAQ for a newsgroup? ::shakes head:: It is very obvious to me that you are completely ignorant regarding MtF transsexual HRT. Like I have recently added to the MtF HRT section of this article,
"Transgender women report a sometimes significant reduction in libido, all depending upon the dosage of anti-androgens. A small number of post-operative transsexual women may take small amounts of testosterone to boost the libido. Many pre-operative transsexual women simply wait until after sex-reassignment surgery to begin an active sex life (due to how they feel towards their genitals and/or an aversion to anal sex) and for post-operative transsexual women how satisfied they are with the results. Progestogens can both raise one's libido and encourage female libidinal feelings."
It is not a physiological difference between transwomen and natal women but much more to do with psychological differences in how one views their own genitals and sex in general. Obviously, if you were born with the wrong genitals and were forced to experience high levels of testosterone during puberty that can lead to all sorts of unwanted, shameful, and embarrasing thoughts and actions you would come away with quite a different viewpoint. Also to be considered are the men who have "a thing" for transsexual women (both pre-, non-, and post-operative) that actually think we'd do the things that are shown on "she-male" pornography websites. Almost all transsexual women want the sex drive reduced significantly, and reasons for this are psychological. We are not becoming "something else."
If you take a real close look at the male and female anatomies, the only real difference is the presense of the uterus in the female; the rest are structure placement differences, all the tissues are basically the same, just programmed by our genes to develop in different ways. If a MtF was allowed to start effective levels of HRT prior to the onset of male puberty and SRS was not performed in the interim, by age twenty the only observable physical differences would be in the genital region, everything else would be "obviously" female, from cranial development on down, with everything comparable to the natal females in the family. Male and female reproductive organs and genitals both arise from the same tissue. By default, the main pathway is the female. But only when the tiny and practically empty Y chromosome is present, does the embryo take the male divergent path. The only difference is hormones and it's triggered by a single region on the Y chromosome. We, transsexual women, are born psychologically and neurologically female (having discovered through brain studies that no other researchers have even attempted to counter, unlike certain studies concerning sexual orientation and even those counter studies have their weaknesses as well). Hormones make us biochemically and mostly anatomically (particularly in the way of dermal, adipose, and muscular tissue) female, and tend to develop diseases/disorders that tend occur in females (due to our biochemical makeup) save for the obvious (uterine, ovarian, cervical, etc., cancers).
One would think that transsexual men and women would have a unique perspective and take on this matter. Furthermore, spitefully using the wrong pronouns when referring to a transsexual person is extremely rude and hurtful. This "stereotype" you speak of is simply not comparable. It is as hurtful to us as it is hurtful to an African-American being called ">-bleeped-<."