juliadryad
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It is really actually not a medical condition. I think this is a cisgender error. Historically, we have put up with the classification of this to navigate the medical beaurocracy that has grown up to restrict access to technology (though it's amazingly easy to get breast implants.)
Gender theory 101 goes something like this. There are cisgender people and transgender people. Cisgender people are people who conform to societies expectations upon them because of their birth chromosomes. Transgender (gender variant) people are people who do not. Gender theory is somewhat of an extension of feminism. It says that right now, transgender people are an oppressed minority, and that basically , classifying people into roles based on birth chromosomes is silly and wrong. Somewhat similar in nature to feminism the arguement is that gender is largely irrelevant other than a personal preference (the core arguement of feminism, that men and women are equal, and should be treated equally) - not irrelevant in a "determining who you are and who you fall in love with sense",but irrelevant in a power-and societal roles sense).
To expand and elaborate on this also, the important insight is that your gender is not made up of your chromosomes. It's made up of your sense of self, how you act, the cues and clues you give off ect. I've always been very feminine. People used to think I was a girl when I was very young. Transgender liberation theory states that this is not a disorder at all, and that having it classified as such is oppressive. Transsexual people simply are natural. Gender variance is natural, like sexual orientation. It is cisgender people who impede and inhibit the lives of gender variant /transgender people - perhaps out of ignorance, perhaps fear, perhaps societal mis-notions.
I see myself as a transsexual woman. I am quite happy with my body. I'll be happy when I get vaginoplasty, and will experience a sense of peace. I am fairly pretty and after years look like I should. Being a submissive woman is probably a good thing - i tilt towards trying to love and understand and teach rather than be angry about the errors that people believe about us. I always tell people on first contact. I list myself as female, because I am female :) It's .. really that simple for me. The 'trans' segregation category is something i refuse as it does not come up usually in my regular life and after all I have given to be here and be myself it seems wrong to yet further condemn myself by constantly wearing a big sign. However, I do of course always tell people quickly as it is very important.
< Message edited by juliadryad -- 2/27/2011 12:25:23 AM >
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