2006-06-27 13:34:58 · 8 answers · asked by tarcser 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
Ask Ann Coulter. He/She should know.
2006-06-27 15:45:16 · answer #1 · answered by GA_metroman 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
At some point in our lives, I think it was by age 6? Or maybe 3, every human develops a gender identity. It is completely seperate from sexual orienation. For most people, this gender identity matches their biological sex. For some, though, it doesn't for a variety of reasons. First of all, there are FIVE biological sexes; there's not just XY and XX (the only other I can remember of the top of my head is XXY). These and also some other genetic oddities can cause an intersex condition in which the person has varying degrees of physical characteristics of either sex. This is not to say that all transgender people are also intersex. For XY and XX trans people, there's varying theories; the ones I'm most familiar with have to do not with genetics, but with the environment in the womb before birth. Much like you'd feel really uncomfortable if everyone wanted you to act like the opposite gender, these people grow up knowing that the life they're being brought up in is wrong.
For the second part, no I haven't had a sex change. I was fortunate enough to be born cisgendered.
2006-06-27 19:44:21 · answer #2 · answered by Atropis 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a MtF (male to female bodied) transsexual, and although I LOOK like a man and have learned to more or less ACT like one, the similarity between me and men ends there.
The behaviors I display are just an act- a set of behaviors I emulated to more or less function in society at large. However, my mind is decidedly female, through no effort of my own.
I have had male friends tell me that I don't think anything like a man, but everything like a woman.
I am changing my body (male) to match the mind that I am (female). It doesn't have anything to do with sex, fetishes, or fantasies- I am simply the person that I am, and that is a girl.
2006-06-28 06:59:47 · answer #3 · answered by mageapprentice 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
b'coz they feel like they are trapped in a wrong body.. for eg. take the guy in "silence of the lambs".
some just do it try being other sex being just for experience(normally they have psychological problems after they do it because of the sudden change and harmone complicacies)
other may do it for coming out of opression (like say being a man from woman where their is great sexual discrimination, maybe to get a gender specific job)...
2006-06-27 13:40:58 · answer #4 · answered by masku darling 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
people change their sex because they believe they were born into the wrong body.
ive always been a female since i was born thanks for asking
2006-06-27 13:40:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope, haven't tried that one yet!
2006-06-27 13:37:19 · answer #6 · answered by justwondering 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Huh.... ummm no. I have always been female.... inside and out. Thanks for asking though.
2006-06-27 13:35:51 · answer #7 · answered by 20mommy05 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they are not content. no
2006-06-27 13:42:46 · answer #8 · answered by DIONN 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋