People who get sex changes....?

Question

Do people who get a sex change, whether it be from male to female or female to male, believe that from that point on they are truely the new sex. I mean cause their DNA never changes, so technically even if a man had breast implants, took female hormones, and had their genitals removed, they are still a male. So do people who do this really believe the sex change made them become the opposite sex?

Alright here is my opinion of this topic: If you are born a woman, you will die a woman, and it doesn't matter if you pay a doctor to surgically make you appear to be male. Same thing about a man having a sex change to "look" like a woman. It doesnt change what they are: a man living as a woman.

I'm sorry, but I will never call someone who had a sex change the sex they physically look like, cause that is not how God made them, and God doesn't make mistakes.

Answer 1

People who undergo this operation already consider themselves to be a member of the opposite sex. That is the point of the surgery. The DNA may say one thing but their mind/emotions/heart says an entirely different thing. In fact, most transgendered individuals, regardless of the operation, truly consider themselves to be the sex they "feel".

Answer 2

Ok, the easiest way to answer this is to do some explaining first. The people you're refering to are transsexuals. A transsexual is born physically one sex, but their mind is the other sex. I'll use myself as an example. My mind has always been female, but I was born with a male body. I consider myself a woman, even though I was born with a penis. I've done my reaserch, and approximately 1 in 1500 people are born with bodies not matching their genitals in some way.

Ok, now that I've given that background info, time to answer questions. They don't beleive that the change they went through made them the opposite sex. They believe that they are already the opposite sex. I think that covers both your question and the edits.

Answer 3

While it may be true that surgery cannot change ALL things to make someone a different gender, I believe that we should respect an individual's right to their own identity. It doesn't matter whether you agree with it or not. What matters is that person went through a LOT to find peace with the gender reassignment, and people should refer to them as the gender they have now become. I know a woman who became a man. HE has undergone sexual reassignment surgery, once a female - now a male. Bye-bye vagina, hello penis. Hey, even born-males sometimes cannot reproduce. And I don't care how many ribs a person has! If you can pee on the side of a wall, you're a guy and I don't give a frog's @ss if your d!ck grew there or was attached later in life!

Answer 4

I've always wondered how much of the need to change is biological (man born into a woman's body or vice versa) versus social.

In other words, maybe a man wants to wear dresses and do feminine things, but because our social norm doesn't allow that without ridicule, he has the operation. And vice versa for female-to-male trannies.

What I do know for sure is that it isn't an easy decision to make. A lot of time, effort, and money is needed to physically become a trannie, not to mention the emotional "coming out" to family and friends and co-workers and so on. Anyone who puts himself/herself through the procedure doesn't do so on a whim.

Live and let live.

Answer 5

To answer your first question: There are people who think they are the opposite sex after the op, and there are people who still feel they are the initial sex.

And for your "I will never call someone the sex they have after the change", you could be surprised...there are people where you can't see that they have been another sex before, AND I find it very disrespectful of you to say you would never do it. You say this only based on principles, and not with the heart. and the heart is what its all about.

Answer 6

You didn't post this question to get answers and educate yourself, only to pass judgment, so I'm not going to answer it since you already have some excellent answers here from people who took the time to try and help you understand. Since you've already closed your mind, these answers will not do you any good, but maybe they can help someone else who really wants to learn. You're right, God doesn't make mistakes, he makes Transsexuals and Transgendered people for a good reason - think about that.

Answer 7

You are under the assumption there is a sex-change...that is not what happens. People who seek this particular type of surgeries do not really change there sex, they merely have extensive counseling and corrective surgery to match the sexual congruency in their brains. So, in example a male born with a female brain would likely want to change the male body to a female body to match the brain.

Answer 8

Oh dear Huskymom, you really need to broaden your philosophical outlook on what makes a person.

Lets introduce a few concepts to help explain the dilema faced here:
1. Science is a reliable, openly verifiable method of analysing the world around us and the way it works but, as any sicentist will tell you, is by its very nature finite and relevant only to the given point in time at which such knowledge has been aquired. Hence the scientific process is a dynamic and constantly evolving way of developing our understanding of the complexities of the world as it exists around us.
2. Within that model, our knowledge of human form and function is also finite. Good though it may be, it is limited and many elements of human behaviour and particularly neuropsychology are poorly understood.

By inference therefore, it would be niave for any of us to claim we know enough about the human brain to be able to say that there is not some good fundamental genetic cause underlying transsexual behaviour. In otherwords, we cannot rule out the possibility that some aspect of genetics or morphology have resulted in people with this condition genuinely having transsexed brains.

We know at least that psychotherapy cannot change these deep seated feelings that transsexual people suffer from, and certainly most transsexuals have enough insight into their condition to realise that their karyotype can never be truely reassigned.

So what relevance does karyotype bear on interpersonal interaction and phenotype?
You state that women are XX and men are XY.
Are they?
Androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS) results in women being born with XY chromosomes. There is a clinical spectrum but generally these women grow up happy in female social roles with female bodies, but do not have a uterus, ovaries, periods or any ability to reproduce. Does that make them "not women"? Indeed, would it fair to exclude them socially just because of an accident of their genes.

What is a "man" or a "woman" then if karyotype doesn't define these things? In short, we are who WE are, not what social ignorance and bigotry tells us we OUGHT to be.
A man is a man because he thinks and feels like a man, and because society accepts him as a man in a male social role.
Vice versa for women.
You do not get to see someones genetic fingerprint when you meet them in the street now do you?

People do not choose to have the feelings they have and can no more change them than you could your own.
Gender reassignment surgery is accepted as a palliation for transsexual symptoms, no one, transsexual or otherwise, pretends that it makes someone genetically or reproductively of the other sex. It DOES however, make them more able to live with themselves as they feel more comfortable in their own bodies, and it facilitates their transition in their social role.

Indeed, you ought to meet some transsexuals if you have not to realise actually how well many postoperative transsexuals CAN pass. Of course some do not, but that doesn't justify discrimination against them.

Feminist arguements levied against the social dichotomy of gender stratification are also relevant, but while we may idealise a culture of TRUE equality between gender roles, it doesn't change the nature of our anatomy and we should all be allowed to feel comfortable with whatever plumbing it is we have to have down below.

So in answer to your question, no one really DOES believe that they become the "opposite sex" in a reproductive sense. They do, however, quite rightly believe that they can aspire to a life at least approximating one they feel comfortable with themselves in, one which you have no more right to deny them than they have to deny you yours.

Recognise the issue here is one of autonomy and tolerance of diversity. People have a right to be comfortable with themselves, you have no right to deny them that basic need we all have.

My advice to you?

GROW UP.

Answer 9

I do not think it is so much that people who get a sex changes, believe that from that point on they are truly the new sex as they already identify with that prior to having the surgery. IT is more that they can be identified by others as being the sex that they have always felt they should be.

Answer 10

No they don't believe the sex change operation nor the hormones makes them their newly assigned sex. From my understanding the operation, hormones and everything makes them feel as though they are physically who they feel they are.

Like if you know you are something deep within you and you make though adaptations to make yourself feel more comfortable and the way you think that you were intended to be.

Women get lipo, botox, breast implants, weave, fake nails, fake tans and such even though they didn't naturally attain these things but they still believe this is who they really are!