Quote Originally Posted by gloombunny View Post
It's heartening to see the positive attitudes towards transness around here.

As zander says, it's best to be mindful of words and pronouns when talking about us trans people. With all the crap we have to deal with every day, just having friends who use the right terms around us can really mean a lot. In a nutshell, a transsexual should always be referred to as the gender they identify as, regardless of how many alterations they've made to their body and life yet. (It's never as simple as flicking a switch from one sex to the other, even if popular media likes to portray "sex change operations" that way.)
they kind of have to gloombunny. For the general public, it would be hard for them to really understand the diversness of the transgender/transexual. So they keep it simple and binary.

bt iam glaadthis topic was started. I myself identify as female. But what does that mean to me? Well it means to me that being who i am is that it involves time and a gradual step by step learning and acceptance processes.
i just still present as a borderline androgynous male. but that doesn't mean that i will and always be that way on the inside. It is just a process that i feel comfortable with now. later, as i can have the money and resources to transition fashionably and sexually (altar my physical sex) then i will present as more feminine.

my stance on may parts and what it means to me to exxpereience them is universal. it changes everyday, my outlook on what kind of sexual anatomy i have. some days some sensation i will experience and i'll feel that having a full operation to have a vagina is what i would want. but then when i dont have those experiences, I am satisfied with my penis, but with no desire to have my testicles. so it goes hand in hand with who i am asa female identified person. and understanding other sexualities is what helps me through my sexual identity, not only my orientation, by my identification with my gender and sexual anatomy.