[MissC]

Could this explain why there are fewer FTMs than MTFs out there?

Clara

I have a few theories I'll float....

I think women are less prone to contests of penis-waving. So a woman who tends to the masculine gender wouldn't so much feel a need to be better at it than either her fellow FTMs or genetic males, thus, less worry about "going all the way".

Men (and here I refer to humans born male) on the other hand tend to make contests out of everything, including games of one-upmanship to no longer be men. Ironic, isn't it? Seriously. Men will make a penis-waving frat-boy contest out of being feminine. (Yeah, I'm guilty too, but my participation stops well short of surgery, just past makeup...!)

This behavior may explain the attitudes on other forums against NBE, and the trannier-than-thou nonsense. We've all seen it. Weekend crossdressers are expected to worship at the altar of SRS and Big Pharma when it's the very last thing they want for themselves.

Secondarily, I believe, there is no expectation whatsoever on the part of the FTM crowd that they could have, for a week in Thailand, functional male sex organs. That perception exists among the MTF crowd, though, so there's a "finish line" for that contest.

Third, women are, perhaps by nature, less interested in more permanent body modifications (like tattoos and such). I don't have data on this, unfortunately; it's my observation. (Yes, many FTMs opt for breast removal [], but I think we give that about the same weight as augmentation -- i.e. cosmetic.)

And last but not least, the theory we're all familiar with already, women in Western societies can simply get away with more gender-bending than men, thus obviating the need/want for more serious personal modification.