I learned more about the male gender this way.

[CosmicJoke]

Hi everyone. Something I find helpful to my dysphoria is by looking at it in a different way. At the time, I never thought my male upbringing could have actually been helpful to me.
Surprisingly the way it is helpful to me now is that I now know more about males than I would have otherwise known. It's an odd concept but do you think you learned more about the opposite gender from having "been it?"

[Lori Dee]

I think it definitely provides us insight.

When my step-daughters were starting high school and wanting to start dating, one of them asked me why I was so suspicious of their boyfriends. Because men are pigs and I know what they are after. 
(No offense to anyone reading this of any gender).

[ChrissyRyan]

I think it definitely provides us insight.

When my step-daughters were starting high school and wanting to start dating, one of them asked me why I was so suspicious of their boyfriends. Because men are pigs and I know what they are after. 
(No offense to anyone reading this of any gender).

Lori,

You might relate to this video, one of many humorous commercials put out by this dealership.  Apparently a father provided this "chaperone."

[Lori Dee]

I remember the trunk monkey! LOL

[Robbyv213]

Yes. Being a man makes me not trust men what so ever. Granted Id like to think I'm far different than the typical male (maybe since I've always wanted to be a woman), I know I've been tols by every woman I have been in a relationship with that I'm not like the men they've ever been with before and all.my.relationships are usually long term committed kind. Unfortunately since I've always wanted to be a woman and Ive been trying my entire life to understand or repress and ignore it, I'm sure most of not all of my issues when it comes to relationships is very so much related to me not being able to be myself and having to always play the male role.

So yes I def feel I have insight into men, but at the same time I don't since I don't think I'm like most men either (especially since I've always wanted to be a woman)

I know I can relate and be an interpreter or translator into the male world but other than that I there is a lot to the male world I also can't relate to either.

[Nadine Spirit]

I think that being raised the way I was provides me insight into males.

But for a long time I was confused as I thought I understand what it was to be male. I didn't understand that what was really happening was that I was girl being forced to pretend to be a boy. That caused me to misperceive many things.