TS Policy Review Link

I am a woman.  I've been a woman since my conception. I will remain a woman even as the worms eat my decaying body.  A man born transsexual (a transman in the vernacular) has always been and always will be a man.  Our gender identities are independent of either our outward societal presentations or the state of the surgical corrections to our bodies.

We do not choose to be born transsexual; we are not trying to get in touch with our feminine or masculine sides: we are.  A growing body of scientific evidence supports us.  Our brains are structured similarly to those of people born possessing genitals of the sex opposite of our transsexual born bodies.

QuoteCrossdressers put on outward gender as they would a suit of clothes:

"Today I feel like a woman.  I will wear make-up and a dress;"

"Tomorrow is Wednesday.  I shall be a man tomorrow."

Presentation is everything; the core gender identity is static. Crossdressers remain male with corresponding genitalia. (There are so few female crossdressers, the issue is moot.)

A man or woman born transsexual does not decide one morning to present as a woman, the next as a man.  Although our core identities also remain static, once we are transitioned, so does our outward presentation to the world.  We do not switch back and forth on whim or feeling.

Fetish transvestites, on the other hand, get off on clothing.  Their whole purpose of cross-gender dressing centers on sexual excitement and orgasmic pleasure.  The fantasy life of a fetish transvestite is far removed from the daily reality of the person born transsexual who wears clothes rather than go into the world naked.

A crossdressing prostitute with breast implants is not a woman.  Silicon is a profit oriented, market driven business decision not life saving surgery.

Marvelous article.  I could not agree more.

Spot on but why is that so hard for people to understand.