According to a couple of websites, the prognosis (I think thats what its called) for the chance of being born a MTF is 1 in 10,000. While the chance of being a FTM is 1 in 30,000. I dunno if this is true, but why would this be? Why would more people be MTF's?

And also, do you think these incidents would have anything to do with why Im transgendered...Ok, this is my earliest memory ever. I was about 1 and something years old, and this little boy at kindergarten showed me his penis. At first I thought it was his thumb , and asked him to do it again. So he did, and I became more interested. That boy became good friends with me overtime and we played a lot together

One day, I was about 3, I wore a dress to kindergarten, and I jumped off the playground and my dress flew up and he laughed at me saying he saw my underwear. Never again did I like dresses after that. He used to show me his penis often, I dont actually know why  One time this other boy used the toilet next to me, and I was so jealous that he was able to pee standing up  Every day in nap time, I used to lay on my pinky finger, in the hope that someone else would mistake it for a penis too 

The first little boy came round to my house often, and we had a bath together one day when I was around 4 years old. When we got out, he asked me where penis was, and if my mum and dad had cut it off or something. From that day on I had always felt as if it were missing. This little boy is now my best friend 15 years later, and I still see him at least once a week. Do you think he maybe encouraged me into being the whole transgendered thing in the first place? Geeez I remeber telling my brother when I was 10 years old, that some girls actually do have penises and that I was one of them It all seemed to revolve around the "whats down there" idea hmmm.

I had great fun as a child tho, I spent heaps of time with this boy! We did so much together rode bikes, went to so many skate parks, lined up fruit along the road for cars to squish, actually did a bit of go-karting ourselves, played with fire once..it was painful , played fighting games, and chasing games...he was actually chasing me when I split my head open, wow so many memories! And yet he still just thinks Im a tomboy. Stupid hormones have taken over and Im yet to tell him the truth, dunno how itll go 

Im not sure why more people are MTF but it does seem to be the case as far as i can tell...Its weird. If it really is down to something happening in the womb maybe its more prone in the case of MTF's then FTM's

I doubt that him showing you his penis made you trans maybe it just....was a bit of a revelation to you in some ways. If you felt you should have one you probs would have found that out regardless of if he showed you it or not lol

DES, probably.

Quote from: Nero on June 02, 2010, 06:34:24 AM
DES, probably.

Whats DES?

Echoing Thomas, if these sort of experiences were the case there would be a lot more people with these feelings.

Girls thinking they have something missing has been recorded for many years. I believe Freud talked about Penis Envy. Sadly, along with so much of what he described, the rest was a load of tosh.

We can try to analyse till we drive ourselves insane why we are the way we are.

I thought, at one time, that I might be trying to develop a better relationship with my mother because her and my older sister seemed close.

Another that I was identifying with my mother. Another that I wanted to have sex with my father. That I secretly hated girls and wanted to infiltrate them. (This was partly as a result of trouble when I tried to play with girls). That I am was utterly inadequate and cowardly boy who was too much of a cry baby to put up with the rough and tumble of other boys.

Pervert is a common one. But we would need to be born perverts and that opens a can of worms.

Guilt over being gay. This is pretty good really. Except it does tend to call into question why homosexuality was considered, for so long, a mental illness and preversion. When being gay was a considered a preversion itself that explaination wouldn't have worked.

We are who we are. Society is moving toward individualism where each of us will be free to express ourselves as we choose. We only ask for that.

Quote from: Thomas on June 02, 2010, 06:46:37 AM
Whats DES?

http://www.cdc.gov/des/consumers/about/history.html

Aside from skewed stats, my guess is it has something to do with there being more males than females in the world, and the fact that women are allowed to dress like "tomboys" but men are not allowed to wear girl clothes. 

Just thinking out loud, but trans issues aren't really... visible.  I didn't know about it until last year, and I learned by stumbling onto an FTM video on youtube.  I knew I didn't feel right in my female body, but I didn't have words to describe it, and it was apparent that my female peers didn't feel the same way.  However, I did know the word "tomboy" and it seemed to fit me well enough.  It let me wear the clothes I wanted and do the things I liked with immunity, so that's what I ran with. 

This is something that MTF people don't have though, so I think that there's a greater dissonence for them, maybe making them realize that something doesn't fit earlier.  If I'd been forced to wear dresses and makeup and not been allowed to play how I wanted, I think there's a good chance I'd have thrown the "I'm not a girl!" fit long before puberty made it apparent that my body was wrong...

Also, agreeing with Spacial about the Freudian stuff.  I think probably some FTM people don't realize that what they're feeling isn't mainstream female thinking.  I know that was me for a while...

Harlee- I have that friend too!  (Minus the genital exposure; I had no idea about those differences until much later)  15 years of hanging out, play fighting, and good times.  He still thinks I'm just a tomboy too.  Here's hoping it'll go well for both of us when the times comes to change that.

Quote from: Kay on June 02, 2010, 09:24:15 PM
http://www.cdc.gov/des/consumers/about/history.html

Thankyou =]
Never knew that existed