Gender

[voxelectronica]

Well, except some of them do.
The line between butch and FTM isn't always so clear.

In regards to butch lesbians lopping their tits off at that point they're more a straight male. (If they are lopping them off to be SEEN as male.) For me it's just a matter of what you want the rest of the world to see you as. Though this is getting a bit into semantics.

There are differences between average male brains and average female brains, but individuals vary widely. And the studies I've heard of have indicated that transsexual women have brains similar to cis women, and same for men, not that there's a third kind of brain.

absolutely! There isn't anything in the tran brain that would make it so a doctor could tell the difference and it does resemble the female brain more. It is however uniquely different as it does belong to a male body. (vise versa for MtF)

(And why stop at three? There's at least one culture that recognizes five genders. Just be careful not to push anyone into a gender they don't want - I identify strongly as a woman, not a third anything, for instance.)

Then you *are* a woman and not a third fourth of fifth anything. I personally use a point system to figure out what I am on any given day. Then i determine how I'm going to dress, act, smell. (smell is HUGE for me). I'm not pushing anyone into a gender. I am however saying that society needs it's stereotypes. Even the most "open minded" uses them to some degree. I would rather have a society that had three genders recognized over two.

Then again I would feel more comfortable going to the mens room. Hate that it's an ugly real girl (who looks more like some sort of beast) who has a problem with a beautiful T girl using the girls bathroom and wish that there was just one big bathroom.