Some stuff from another thread. Did not want to respond there as it is off topic and I don't believe my response will be helpful to the OP.
Quote from: Lisa_K on November 21, 2018, 07:28:55 PM
If you're MTF, you were born male and no mistakes or incorrect "assignments" were made stamping that on your birth certificate however unpleasant it may be to think in these terms. That's where the "M" in MTF comes from.
Um, no.
My anatomy was male when I was born, which led to my birth certificate being stamped male. My self, my soul, my being, what have you, has always been female.
The MTF refers to the transition of the body and in my case starting my physical transition at age 54, it is also a social transition. Stating that I was male in anyway other than physically would imply that I choose to be female now. I did not choose to be female, I just am, even though I started with a male body and attempted to live that way for 54 years.
Lack of information, denial, fear of being found out, and toxic levels (for a female brain) of testosterone are what caused me to take that long to start it, not that I was ever male.
The choice I made was to live female, not be female.
Quote from: Miss Clara on November 24, 2018, 02:30:43 PM
If you agree that our bodies include the brain, and that the brains of males and females differ anatomically, then, the bodies of transsexual women aremisaligned at birth, that is, composed of a mixture of male and female physical characteristics. It's understandable and forgivable that we were mistakenly assigned male at birth (the female part being hidden from view), but that doesn't mean we lose the right to correct the error and claim our female identities. As long as other people persist in the conditioned, but false belief that one's sexual identity is binary, either male or female, ignoring the fact that a significant number of people fall between these poles on the sexual spectrum, there's a good chance that a potential life partner will react poorly on learning that their love interest underwent medical treatment to correct what is essentially a birth anomaly, i.e., misaligned sexual anatomy....
Anyone who insists that my sexual identity is irrevocably male and unable to accept that I was and always will be female in the most deep seated and permanent way, is not welcome in my life.
Beautifully stated. I try to avoid the trolls on other social media sites that try to pull the "it's biology" bit but this is what I want to respond with. Yes its biology because brains are part of biology. Genital anatomy is not the be all and end all of biology as related to gender identity.
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