If a man/woman can feel trapped in the wrong sex, can they feel trapped in the wrong species as well?

Question

I'm really not trying to be funny here. This is something that has bugged me every since I watched this special called Switching Sexes: The Aftermath on the Discovery Health Channel the other night. I am in no way trying to make light of this subject. What I don't understand is the how and the why. How does a six year old boy know that he was born in the wrong body? Children don't know anything about gender until it's taught.

The thing I don't quite understand is what "feeling" like a woman/man feels like? Heck, I'm a woman but I don't wake up thinking..gosh, I feel like a woman today. It just is what is. Is it possible to feel trapped in the wrong species as well? Could a person wake up and say, I'm so tired of being a human, I feel like an alligator or a giraffe today? Why are these conflicted people limited to male and female?

Answer 1

It's called mental illness. It has been proved that Transsexuals have a body sex that does not match their brains gender. This has been found in autopsies of transsexuals of both sexes.
Thus there is no cure for this birth anomaly. The only treatment to ever bring relief is to change the body. I know you'll say god wouldn't make this mistake so if you're right there are never any birth deformities.
Tammi Dee

Answer 2

Let me explain one little thing here.
Our brain has got a lot of things to do with how we experience the sex we have, and hormones are a big part of that too. Together they make you feel man or woman. Men make more testosterone, women estrogen.
The spot in your brain is very important for how you feel. It makes you feel man, woman, or in the grey area in between. Sometimes that doesn't seem to fit with your natural body and cultural hang-ups. There are also people with different hormonal working.
We are still human beings. There is no such thing in your brain that makes you feel human or dog or horse or giraffe.
As an androgyne person myself I don't feel trapped in the wrong body. I feel like a normal person, with a different working of hormones and not exactly the same brainanatomy as most women or man have.

I am not a freak of nature. I am me. Human and androgyne. In my opinion there are 3 sexes. In some cultures that is highly accepted and respected.


Added:
Thanks TammeeDee for calling me and others here mentally ill. You obviously do know what you are talking about.

Answer 3

So because you cannot understand why some people can look at their body and know it does not coincide with the mental "gender" they are you question the validity and add a strawman about species?
As it stands, because of a lack of inherent instincts it would be darn near impossible to decide you were "meant" to be another species, couple that with a human's inherent intelligence level(as compared to the majority of the animal life on this planet) and you get an argument against any such imagined decision. It made a mildly amusing South Park episode, but real life? I think not.

Answer 4

Read up on embryo development. It's sooooo complex and intricate that it's amazing so many people turn out with relatively speaking, so little diversity. Also, think about intersex people born with both genitalia. It's not difficult to understand that the mind can develop differently than the body when put into perspective. Personally, I don't think sexuality variations would be nearly as controversial if people would get beyond their learned stereotypes about sex and simply think about human development in a broader context.

Oh yeh, people start off the same gender in the womb. Lol, none of us start out as a different species....

Answer 5

I believe that I should've been born as one of (at least) three things: a dolphin, a fish (yes, there's a difference between the two), or a black cat. It's really amazing to think about what your life could be like if you were one of those animals, or any other animal, really. I mean, wouldn't you love to be a cicada or something, so that you could sleep for 17 years and only wake up to mate? Of course, the downfall to that is you die after mating/laying eggs, but still. So, to answer your question, yes, I believe it is possible to feel like you were born as the wrong species.

Answer 6

Actually, you can not tell what being a woman feels like any more than a giraffe can tell (I f it can talk, that is) what being giraffe is like.

Perhapsit has more to do with someone observing the social attitude towards a certain situation, and vicariously feel the feelings they would feel when in a given situation.

I felt I was born in the right body when I saw Terrentino's ( What a weird name? Why couldn't he have a common, easily spellable name like Arnold Schazzernagger? Which confirms I was born in the right name as well) "Hostel", cause I didn't want to be in those tortured guys' body.


When a guy says he was born in the wrong body, he means he wishes he was born in the body of a beautiful girl, with guys turning their heads and causing accidents when the girl walked past them on street, being shown courtsey chivalry , having boobs and multiple orgasms and PMS.

A girl when she says she wishes she was born a boy, perhaps wishes for the usual advantages of being a guy in a ( till recently) male dominated society Being brash, rude, playing football and brawling with other teams' supporters , staying out late (my parents never let my sis stay out after 12, before she movedout), talking really crude slang,ogling at gorgeous girls, peeing anywhere you feel like, and leaving your name on the sands of time ( Iwonder how you would say it in Roman " I came, I stood , and I peed").

Is that why hindu gods are elephants, apes, etc? But that is out of order. Sorry!

Answer 7

People can and do feel trapped in a human body, wanting to be an animal or even an alien. They believe that they would be much happier and more comfortable inhabiting another body. Don't freak about it. It has no bearing on your life. Why must you make them feel bad, when they have not harmed you? Making them explain themselves to you is just another way of making them unhappy.

I "feel like" a woman. I don't feel like hitting or spitting or peeing standing up would be right for me. I don't want big muscles or a hairy face or rough skin. I also love and am attracted to women. It is just how I am.

Please try to accept people as they are, unless they are actually harming someone else criminally. Pedophiles should die terrible deaths. Rapists should be punished severely and on second offences, also killed. Child abusers and spouse abusers should be locked up in solitary permanently. But people who just see things differently than you do, leave them be. Please!

Answer 8

No, I variety with the help of to prioritize them, or maybe as performed, i visit be certain which could be made and which won't be able to be made. I enable the right human beings understand when I won't be able to make their dedication. for sure each and every each and every now and then i will not make any duties. i do no longer sense trapped per chance somewhat beaten until eventually I complete the prioritizing.

Answer 9

Well men have more testosterone. Think about it - if you were forced to act like a man, walk like a man, belch like a man (lol) and do everything from peeing to eating that a man does - you would feel out of place?

As for species...I dont think so. Because we are evolved and no other species is as evolved as us. So to feel like a different species would be like, well, going down and trying to DUMB yourself, like those monkies that fling poo.
I personally felt like I could have flung poo but heck, I never really wanted to. ;) It's just something IN us.

Like twin boy*girl pairs. They are obviously raised in the same house, same parents, same everything. But they will come out very different. The girl will (usually) prefer dresses, barbies, dollies, of some sort. The boy will naturally prefer roughhousing, trucks, etc...

Studies have been done on that, and being "BOY" like and being "GIRL" like is really IN you...not taught. :)

Answer 10

Me too, living the evil world of humans, I long to be a bird or even an animal . I am more comfortable with other species than I am with any human being.