I think after they start to have breast
2007-04-08 15:19:09 · 8 answers · asked by Jenn F 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
A lot of times it's when passing is unavoidable. Other times, at the start of HRT, or as you mention after breasts develop. It's a personal decision when to go full time. Everyone is going to choose a different time.
Rabbit:
Way to bloviate and not answer the question. You prove Yahoo's "Top Contributor" ranking is severely broken. And NO, it's not up to the therapist, it's up to the transgendered person. You obviously have no personal experience with this issue.
Oh yea. This comment is retarded: "supervised or scrutinized full-time roleplay (living as the other sex)." That is insulting in more than one way.
2007-04-08 17:01:26 · answer #1 · answered by june crow 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
For most surgeons, the sex change surgery requires some steps to be taken first (Harry Benjamin protocols). One of the things is the person must be able to tolerate the hormones of the other gender, so an endocrinologist is consulted. The endocrinologist is consulted after an appropriate mental health professional has referred the person. The endocrinologist isn't just going to shoot (or give pills) estrogen into a man because the guy walks in the office and says give me some. There needs to be a diagnosis of gender dysphoria, which takes a qualified psychologist or psychiatrist to make that determination.
The shrinks will, from the consultations with the person, determine if that is appropriate. With some people, there are other issues at play, so the counselors guide the person through those issues and sometimes the real need or desire comes into the open and the sex change is no longer needed. But when it looks as if mere cross dressing or transvestitism is not going to be enough, if repressed homosexuality or faulty logic resulting from some obsessive-compulsive behaviors, or any of a dozen other things is not going to solve the drive to be other than the obvious gender--THEN the shrinks prescribe living as the other gender for a time.
The nice thing about this, supervised or scrutinized full-time roleplay (living as the other sex) is that the shrink will provide letters the person needs to carry. Without such, there could be compromising moments which could label such behavior in criminal ways. In my state, for instance, a man in a dress and using a woman's restroom has committed a crime. He could be labeled as a sex offender and put on the public registry--required to stay away from schools and such.
In short, the mental health professionals are best in the position to help a person on the road to making such a change. The counsellor lets you know when. And when you are ready, they will also sign off on letting you make that big step.
2007-04-08 22:41:08 · answer #2 · answered by Rabbit 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
After they start to have breast? transgendered male? Hello?
A transsexual knows from their earliest memories that they are.
A "transgendered" male would never dress as a woman, unless mother insisted. Or maybe they want to do a fem thing while being incredibly agressive. Doubtful.
Please remember that a transsexual believes in the gender binary. Male or Female. A transgender does not. I could perceive myself to be female, yet be happy with my...um...pubic area. i'd say that makes me a transgender human.
Perhaps you would ask this question again?
2007-04-09 02:41:56 · answer #3 · answered by kendra bryn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on the person what time they take certain steps. For me, I started hormones one month before I started dressing as/living as a woman. I didn't even crossdress before that. It's been a about 16 months since I started hormones and because of my hard butch leanings I'm still not really passable, but I live 24/7 as a woman now. I've given up on going full-time when I'm passable and now just living as myself and letting the meds slowly do their work.
2007-04-08 22:44:32 · answer #4 · answered by carora13 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
seems like an awkward question from you to have asked here. i would imagine that a person knows from an early age what they are inside themself. at a point when all of the pieces fit, they must make a decison to go with the living fulltime arrangement as well. this is not a jump into it thing for anyone to encounter in my estimation.
2007-04-09 07:14:55 · answer #5 · answered by cadaholic 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It varies from person to person. Some go full steam ahead and go out one day full dressed as a women but some slowly come out, almost gender ******* for awhile. Some wait till they have brest; some don't.........
2007-04-08 23:53:34 · answer #6 · answered by Liam 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i knew it was time as soon as i got out of the house and got to college.
2007-04-08 22:22:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
When you are ready I suppose.
2007-04-08 22:29:55 · answer #8 · answered by arvis3 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋