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Gender Id...I just can't understand myself.

Started by Dany, April 25, 2014, 11:51:42 PM

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Dany

So, I was assigned male at birth but have been doing everything a girl does ever since I was kid, from dressing to wearing make up to acting like a girl. I do feel like a good part of my gender is feminine BUT I'm cool with being a guy, I don't feel depressed, I like women, enjoy sex with them and perform just fine and wouldn't wanna not be a guy.I'm just a perfectly normal man, even though I cannot stop acting like a girl otherwise my level of stress grows exponentially. Also, I have a quite feminine body like for example, slim waist and general womanly characteristics I mean, if I shave my beard my face looks way too "delicate". So, any thoughts on my condition regarding my gender? THANKS!   
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Jessica Merriman

You should find a good Therapist with gender experience to help you figure it out. They are a good resource to have and may help you discover what it is you really want. :)
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Ms Grace

Sometimes people can be quite comfortable in either gender, there is a lot of space in between either end of the spectrum.
Grace
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Transition 1.0 (Julie): HRT 1989-91
Self-denial: 1991-2013
Transition 2.0 (Grace): HRT June 24 2013
Full-time: March 24, 2014 :D
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JamesG

Dany, you weren't assigned male at birth ("pin a penis on this one") your zygote (you) decided to be one at conception while it was sorting out your parent's genes and rolling the dice on your traits.  There is a wide range of those human traits, especially those related to gender. At the outer extreme are those who are XY or XX but essentially get the other sexes' brain mapping and other things (like maybe your chromatids got lazy and just copied a whole bunch of your Mom's genes over wholesale, who knows). That is how we think homosexual and transgender traits come from.  With in that range, you have "normal" people who express cross sex traits such as skinny guys and big husky girls.

All the above is just the background noise (and me being funny/smartassed [its late/early]) to say... "What Jessica said." Expressing cross-sex traits doesn't make you necessarily transgender.  You should consult someone who is trained to make that objective determination (you may not like what they decide).
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Pip

Quote from: JamesG on April 26, 2014, 12:27:25 AM
You should consult someone who is trained to make that objective determination (you may not like what they decide).

Agree it might be a good idea to talk to someone - but I would say to bear in mind that even an expert can only ever make a subjective determination (of a possibly objective truth).  If you don't like what they say, working out whether that's because they've got it wrong or because your ego is trying to defend its sense of self (or other tricks of the mind) - it takes a measure of self-knowledge in any case.

If you look and act feminine, but this isn't making you unhappy - if you just think it's an odd thing for a man to be like - perhaps your problem is just holding certain expectations of yourself to be a man in the culturally ascribed manner, in which case, don't sweat it, and don't project it inwards into saying there's something wrong with you or you've got some sort of "condition" - just carry on doing what you're doing.  There's quite a lot of leeway in humans for men and women to not embody their society's ideal of masculine and feminine and still be men and women.
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