Going against good advise here and am respoding to X here.

Don't have much to say other than reading your first post had me shaking my head.

Look, nothing personal, but get this, YOU CANNOT know what it is like to be transsexual. Yes, the same holds for me, I cannot KNOW what it is to be a nontranssexual like you either. Seems the difference here is that I understand this much.

Some thoughts for you: I note that you honor my gender with female pronouns, but yet you refer to TS sex as male to male sex in your first post. Well my dear, I assume you are a male. So why haven't you begun your estrgen treatments yet? Have you begun to present as female in public and on the job as of yet? When will you be having your genital surgery? Aren't these all just things "males" do? So what are you waiting for? Ohh! I see now! This is just some homosexual male thing? mmm-hmmm. No wonder my wife didn't understand. Luckily though, the lesbian lovers I've had have been more understanding. What??? Over 30% of mtf transexuals, pre, post and non-operative are attracted to women???? Hmmm, well that sure makes an untidy stain on a stereotype now doesn't it? Even more strange is that here in the U.S. mtf's are required to are required to get a legal divorce before being granted surgery. Weird huh? I mean based on your first post, I think this would make you wonder what the state would have against this sort of "heterosexual" relationship. Or does the surgery change all that? Mmm-hmmm. So the real difference between male and female is thus having or not having a spare $15,00O for genital reconstructive surgery. Ok, that makes sense. Then you go to write something to the effect of, only transsexuals or homosexuals-like this is the exact same thing??? Well let's see, heterosexual means attraction to the "opposite sex" and homosexual to the same sex. So my question is X, What exactly would you say the opposite sex is of me? And what would the opposite sex be of a person born intersexed? I can tell ypou that while I get hit on plenty by men who you probably would have to fight if you told them they were homosexual, I've never, ever had a gay man look at me twice.
When I've walked hand in hand with a man in public...no problems. When I did this with my last girlfriend, we would here grumbles and taunts about the "dykes."
Just be careful out there X. I know a lot of post-ops out there who have slept with a lot of men who don't know to this day that they had a "homosexual" relationship. Kinda like the men who hit on me aren't aware they have homosexual tendencies.
But, of course, YOU no doubt, would certainly be able to indentify all of us on sight, right?
*snicker*

I appreciate BBwolf's sensitivity. X, I'm not saying you meant it that way, but your post didn't feel good to me at all. I'm coming to expect that in this forum and I think this will be the last time I come here, at least i'll take a couple month break.

And as for researching transsexuals to know how we feel. Well, I hate to shatter whatever stereotype it is you would like to draw, but truth is, if you asked 20 transsexuals a question while doing this research, chances are good you'd get 20 different answers. Y'now, kind of like you would expect if you tried this with heterosexuals or homosexuals....hmmmm.

Anyway, here's a fun link for you (If this works):


http://www.intelleng.com/riki1.html

peace all.