13-02-2013, 12:06 PM
This speaks to one of my hobby horses: politicised science. The 21st century has become as much tainted by science being crippled by political orthodoxy as it was in the time of the Inquisition (which was politics underpinned by religion). It is as much heresy now to question "political correctness" as it was to question the sun revolving around the earth.
To my mind, there are definitely two kinds of people who feminise, and they match up with the theories of Blanchard, Bailey and Lawrence. The "true" transsexual, who felt from early childhood that they are in the wrong sex and desire a member of the same birth gender, opposite identified gender, and people like me. Look up autogynephile. It is a person who is heterosexual, does not feel that they were born the wrong gender, apart from the unfairness of it all, and can only feel fully sexually aroused by visualising themselves as women.
That, to me, is why when I take enough PM to grow my breasts, the thought of desperately wanting to become a woman actually goes away!
The reason, I think, is that my libido is intimately associated with that self image of feminity, and when it is suppressed the urge to dress up/medicate/transition actually goes away.
There are plenty of affidavits of people exactly like me on Anne Lawrence's website.
Unfortunately, the trans "community" (euphemism for political activists) have forced the idea of only one kind of transsexual into the orthodoxy, so many more people than ought to be are suffering from transition regret.... see Warning about transitioning
(Similarly, and not to provoke another thread, those people who don't want to be homosexual and seek treatment to become heterosexual are persuaded by "orthodox" practitioners to accept their homosexuality, whereas practitioners who try to help them are hounded by the activists)
To say "I don't get it! Why are they doing this?" Is to ask why someone with body dysmorphia desperately wants their leg amputated - it's the same question, and the same kind of answer. Yet these people get their amputations, for fear that they will do it themselves and die.
Despite what my co-contributors think, I assert that I am suffering from a brain disorder very similar to those people who want amputations.
I believe it is part of a spectrum of disorders caused by insufficient exposure to androgen as a foetus, with "true" transsexualism at one end, heteronormality at the other, and autogynephilia and possibly homosexuality somewhere in between.
The reason I have "heretic" above my non-avatar is that this assertion will make the PC crowd gasp. They have even persuaded the DSM folks to remove the word "disorder" from Gender Identity Disorder and replace it with Gender Dysphoria.
As Shakespeare put it: "What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet".
If we are really at the point in human civilisation where the word "Dysphoria", meaning extreme unhappiness, is better than "Disorder" which means, in this instance, "that which causes extreme unhappiness" then I don't hold out much hope for it.
My opinions only - no need to flame.
B.
To my mind, there are definitely two kinds of people who feminise, and they match up with the theories of Blanchard, Bailey and Lawrence. The "true" transsexual, who felt from early childhood that they are in the wrong sex and desire a member of the same birth gender, opposite identified gender, and people like me. Look up autogynephile. It is a person who is heterosexual, does not feel that they were born the wrong gender, apart from the unfairness of it all, and can only feel fully sexually aroused by visualising themselves as women.
That, to me, is why when I take enough PM to grow my breasts, the thought of desperately wanting to become a woman actually goes away!
The reason, I think, is that my libido is intimately associated with that self image of feminity, and when it is suppressed the urge to dress up/medicate/transition actually goes away.
There are plenty of affidavits of people exactly like me on Anne Lawrence's website.
Unfortunately, the trans "community" (euphemism for political activists) have forced the idea of only one kind of transsexual into the orthodoxy, so many more people than ought to be are suffering from transition regret.... see Warning about transitioning
(Similarly, and not to provoke another thread, those people who don't want to be homosexual and seek treatment to become heterosexual are persuaded by "orthodox" practitioners to accept their homosexuality, whereas practitioners who try to help them are hounded by the activists)
To say "I don't get it! Why are they doing this?" Is to ask why someone with body dysmorphia desperately wants their leg amputated - it's the same question, and the same kind of answer. Yet these people get their amputations, for fear that they will do it themselves and die.
Despite what my co-contributors think, I assert that I am suffering from a brain disorder very similar to those people who want amputations.
I believe it is part of a spectrum of disorders caused by insufficient exposure to androgen as a foetus, with "true" transsexualism at one end, heteronormality at the other, and autogynephilia and possibly homosexuality somewhere in between.
The reason I have "heretic" above my non-avatar is that this assertion will make the PC crowd gasp. They have even persuaded the DSM folks to remove the word "disorder" from Gender Identity Disorder and replace it with Gender Dysphoria.
As Shakespeare put it: "What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet".
If we are really at the point in human civilisation where the word "Dysphoria", meaning extreme unhappiness, is better than "Disorder" which means, in this instance, "that which causes extreme unhappiness" then I don't hold out much hope for it.
My opinions only - no need to flame.
B.
I think the problem with non-ops is that they are more in danger of blood clots.
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