Transgender: Transition Success Series

Question: Still transgender? even after..?

(Posted by: ♥�り♥京♥ on 2010-01-30 18:28:23)

Im not trying to be rude or offensive or anything like that at all. im so sorry if i say something offensive, i dont mean to, im just kinda confused. from what i know the word Transgender mean someone whose body is not the same as their...everything else. right? okay, well, if someone is biologically male (yet really female), and like males (i assume, because sex and emotions is all brain chemistry, not body)and has an opperation to make them physically female..them they are technically female and like males. so then they become "straight " right? do they no longer belong to the LGBT commuinty? what happens post- oprtn, i mean do they them ust suddenly identify as "straight " or did they indenitfy as striaght to begin with? im really not trying to be arogant or anything, sorry if it comes off that way. thanks so much for help! <3

Posted by: pj on 2010-01-30, 19:28:01

They identified as "straight " to begin with and they identify as "straight " now. the operation, as you put it, changes only the body. the gender identity is the reason for the operation, it remains the same. the physical transition is not an identity transition, it just brings the body in line with the true gender....the gender identity. so, you would think of a transwoman as always having been a woman and a transman as always having been a man. once you get that cleared up, it's really very simple. think of it this way, "i was every bit as much a woman the day before my surgery as i was the day after...or now. " hope this helps some. much love and hope. pj

Posted by: Trinidad Grad on 2010-01-30, 18:35:59

The word you're looking for is transsexual. A transsexual person is born with a brain-body mismatch. Through the process of transition we correct that mismatch. You are also confusing gender identity and sexual orientation, they are totally separate things. People do not transition to be straight. As a matter of fact the percentage of transsexual people who are LGB is higher than that of the general population, maybe as high as 30% (10% for the general population). Transsexual people can be straight, gay/ lesbian, bisexual or asexual just like everyone else. You can read more about gender identity and transsexualism here: ai.eecs.umich.edu/ people/ conway/ TS/ TS.html#anchor107763 After sex reassignment surgery we are still members of the LGBT community because we all still face the same discrimination from an ignorant society.

Posted by: bashful on 2010-01-30, 18:36:09

They are not staright or gay, they are transgender and will always be.

Posted by: Jay B on 2010-01-30, 19:20:24

It really depends on the person undergoing the transition. I'm a transman, and I'm bisexual. I'll probably always have an identity within the trans community and the LGBT community. Regardless of my surgical status, when I am with a man we are in a homosexual relationship and if my partner is female it is a heterosexual encounter. I have a friend, she is a transgal. She used to be married to a woman prior to her transition. It was a heterosexual marriage for all purposes, as she was trying to hide as a man and her wife was heterosexual. Now though in her transition she has come to terms with her attraction to men as heterosexual and not homosexual (there was some religious ideas pushed on her as a child that conflicted her so). Usually, our identities are not based on our surgical status... but every so often there is a person who has been... "encouraged " to see themselves on a certain light thanks to outside influences attempting to deter them from truly being who they are.