I saw a documentary on TV and was wondering...
If you are a man and got a sex change. and you are sexually attracted to men who used to be women, are you gay?
2007-01-27 18:35:02 · 7 answers · asked by Andigurl 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
It's less confusing if you remember that sexual orientation and gender are two different things. Former gender has nothing to do with it. So in the situation you're describing a woman is sexually attracted to a man. It doesn't matter that the woman was once a man and the man was once a woman. So a woman being attracted to a man is a heterosexual attraction.
2007-01-27 18:53:32 · answer #1 · answered by Jen 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Okay, if I understand your question correctly, a man who transitioned to become a woman (a male-to-female transsexual) is attracted to a man who used to be a woman (i.e. a female-to-male transsexual).
Sexual orientation is defined by the sex of the participants involved. Since they are both whatever sex they have transitioned to, we can say that their transsexual status is somewhat irrelevant. They are, respectively, a man and a woman, and if they desire one another, they are straight.
Now, if the transwoman is attracted solely to transmen (versus biological men), she isn't necessarily straight, but definitely not gay (gay women like women, not transmen). There are no words in our society for those who desire transsexuals, except the ubiquitous 'queer'. But she's closer to straight than anything else.
Hope that answers your question!
2007-01-28 04:57:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think we are stuck in a very western dichotomy: Male/Female, Gay/straight etc., In some societies there are/were many more than one recognized gender and to try and fit the whole diversity of human sexual orientations and sexual identities into the gay/straight dichotomy is to seriously limit our thinking on the subject.
2007-01-28 06:24:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think from Gods' eyes it would still be homosexual. I do not think they can change there status on the birth certificate, nor in marriage.
2007-01-28 10:15:21 · answer #4 · answered by ishelp4 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
hello, andigurl...
Are you trying to give us another label? Another dehumanizing label? Just from your name, I think you might be a transwoman.So there.
From a transgender heterosexual lesbian named,
kendra bryn
2007-01-28 09:39:45 · answer #5 · answered by kendra bryn 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
confusing, but they are straight.
2007-01-28 02:59:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
no
2007-01-28 13:41:13 · answer #7 · answered by Lynda 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋