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For the second time in my life I'm coming out.	by Trinity_Quasar	2005-05-11 16:05:12
A question for the transgendered	by zelda	2005-05-11 16:44:49
...specifically those who have no wish to do anything to change their physical gender. I find the statement "I'm a man in a female body" very confusing. It seems clear to me that "male characteristics" and "female characteristics" of personality are just shorthand stereotypes; we all have mixes of both. It may be the most common pattern for persons inhabiting bodies with XY chromosomes and male reproductive organs to ehibit far more "male" personality traits than "female" ones, but no person is 100% anything. I.e., emotional sensitivity is a trait more associated with females than males, but a male with no emotional sensitivity at all is a sociopath, not a "real man." And individuals vary in their mix of traits. There are most-common groupings of traits for each physical gender, but it's a big, wide distribution curve. Some women are very "girly," with a low number of so-called "male" traits; many clump together in the middle; some have more male traits than is common for a person with XX chromosomes and female reproductive organs. This is all totally normal in any biological population. Given that the "male" and "female" personality traits are only so called because of a combination of most-common patterns and social stereotyping, not inherent or exclusive occurence in one or the other physical gender, what is the meaning of a statement like "I'm a woman trapped in a man's body"? At what point on the normal distribution do you draw a line and say "This person isn't really a woman"? I completely support your right to identify yourself however the heck you want, and I'm not trying to undermine that. But is it possible that your personality is in perfect harmony with your physical gender, and it's society's labels that are broken? If I've got this all wrong, feel free to thwap me. I just don't understand, and I'd like to be better educated.
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I can't answer from the viewpoint...	by bitflipper	2005-05-11 16:52:21
I would also...	by highly	2005-05-12 05:53:09

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