No, actually. I'm a transsexual man (female-to-male) and I'm attracted to men. Therefore I am both a gay man and a transsexual man.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Oh. Cool. I stand corrected.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

If you're attracted to men, why didn't you just stay a woman?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Because I'm assuming that he feels more comfertable in a mans body. It's not about who you're interested in... It's about how you feel in your body. In my opinion atleast.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

(:D): comfortable*

by Anonymous 13 years ago

(:D): Ehhh, my logic is why spend money on the surgery as well as recuperation. Honestly, it's really easy to tell if a person is transexual too.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Whoa.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Do you have a deep voice?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

You're still a girl.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Psychologically, he is. Physically, no. The only difference is the connective tissues in the brain and whatever aftereffects estrogen from puberty or earlier development(depending on when he changed) has. Other than that, with enough testosterone supplements and the surgery finished, he is a he and not a she.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Umm no, SHE was born a girl and will always be a girl. You will be what you were and you are. You can't take a dog and cut his ears, trim his tail and call it a cat?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

She will not always be a girl. If he identifies himself as a man, then thats what he is. Im sure he feels he was supposed to be born a male, therefore he is one. Just because he was born a female does not forever and always make him one. Especially post-op. You act like you know everything about this topic. There is no way he can always be a girl if he's not one. And to the person who said logically he is still a female, thats not always true. He may have been born female but he absolutely could have had male logic if thats what he identified himself as.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

(moo.): Lawl.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It seems to me that you don't understand the difference between gender and sex. Gender is programmed into the brain. If your gender is male, you will probably tend to act and dress like other males do (of course, there is some variation; gender identity is a spectrum), and you will identify as a boy. Sex is purely physical. Most people's sex matches their gender, but transsexuals' do not.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

You. Have. No. Idea.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Sorry to rehash an old argument, but you're mistaken about Sexual Reassignment Surgery, but there is one point that was accurate without meaning to be. "You can't take a dog and cut his ears, trim his tail and call it a cat?" Exactly. The you can't cut a dog's tail off and call it cat. Just like you can't have a dog born without ears or a tail, and call it a cat. It's still a dog, even though it looks like a cat. And, correcting it so that it looks like a dog, it's still a dog. You can't use surgery to turn a woman into a man. Just like you can't expect a someone who is a man, but looks like a woman, to be a man. But you can correct a man who was born with female primary sex organs to look like a man. SRS is corrective.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

wait but that's totally beside what I was arguing against. Lol

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Mr. Garrison FTW

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I'm a FTM (female to male) transsexual as well, and I'm on the gay side of bisexual (I'm more attracted to men). There is a BIG difference between sexual orientation and gender identity. It would NOT be easier for me to live as a mostly straight woman. AT ALL. Honestly, I would rather die than live the rest of my life as a woman.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Gender Identity = Gender confusion? Got it. Why would it be harder for you to live as a "mostly" straight woman? That's how you were born.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

@548124 (OIGETIT): They wanted to be a man. Who are you to judge?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Why can't I live as a woman? Because... I can't wear women's clothes anymore, I cry whenever I do. They don't feel right, and they're constantly reminding me that I can never get what I’ve always wanted most in life: to be male. My French teacher is annoyed with me because I refuse to use the female form of adjectives when I refer to myself for the same reason above; it's a reminder that I'm a girl. I nearly cry if I do. So why not just change the way I look and not go through all the hassle of getting testosterone and surgery? Because my mental body map is male. I know I don't have a penis, I can look in the mirror to verify it, but part of me refuses to believe it. And when I do believe that I don't I end up breaking down. I can't stand my breasts, sometimes I can't even touch them without almost vomiting. Don't even get my started on my period... I can't even put a tampon in because I'm too disgusted by the idea. Those are a few reasons why it's harder.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I'm a cisgendered female and that almost made me cry. There is so much transphobia in the world, it's disgusting. Even stigma against gays (I'm a lesbian myself) pales in comparison with the crap transsexuals have to put up with...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I agree 100%! This whole post I find is very offensive and can't believe so many people agreed with it! There's a huge difference between being attracted to people of your own gender and wanting to be the opposite gender, honestly, I don't understand why GLB and transsexual people are lumped together as the GLBT community, they aren't really the same at all.. By the way, I'm a cisgendered female.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Don't hate on Mr./Mrs. GARRISON!! I won't allow it.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Hey, me (Simon) again. Woah, so many comments. And, yeah, pretty much what moo said - I was born a male, just my body wasn't. I couldn't be a woman any more than any other man could. And I've always been attracted to men in a gay way, not a female straight way. To answer some questions, yes, I do have a deep voice, haha. In regards to surgery, yeah, the chest reconstruction is going to cost a lot, and people would argue that it's cosmetic and not corrective, but I'm a man, and men don't usually have lumps of breast tissue on their chests. And, like many transsexuals, I'm not confused at all. I'm a happy normal young man. Paxcow, sorry to hear that. It's hard at first, when you start transitioning, but often once you start living as your real gender, everything else starts to fall in place too.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It's great to see some other gay transmen on here. I pass in public, but not many family members or friends know I'm trans.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It is a pretty touchy subject. Gender is something that nobody really understands, although everyone kinda pretends to, haha. But, transgenders aren't political issues. We aren't social issues. We're just people. We live, and work, and create, and dream, and hope, and love, just like anyone else.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Everyone has the right to live the way that is natural to them :) I think it is amazing you can expain yourself on her evenm with people discriminating. Made my day! :)

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Not really. If you're mentally male and like other males, you're gay, right? What defines your gender isn't attraction to the opposite sex. It's whether or not you FEEL as though you are a male or female. That's why gay men don't get sex changes to become women just because they're attracted to guys; sexual orientation and gender identity are very different things.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I'm really very sorry if I offended anyone with this post. There's absolutely nothing wrong with either transexuality or homosexuality, or any combination there of, in my opinion. I didn't mean to insult or pass judgement on anyone.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

All is forgiven, dude.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yeah, ditto to what shelbyam118. I almost regret commenting in the first place, as I knew you meant it as a humerous comment, rather than something to turn into a debate.

by Anonymous 13 years ago