GID (Gender Identity Disorder
This is some of what I was referring to this morning/night - those classifications just seem inherently wrong and biased to me. I mean, I lean towards believing "transsexualism" is a psychological condition, but if so, I think my "cissexualism" is equally much of a psychological condition, just as much of a construct of the mind. I don't see the point of calling one a "identity disorder" and the other "normality" (or identity order?). Your gender might not be "matching up" with your body, but why is your body the baseline, when it is the personality/identity you've that were built in it that makes you you?
And well, if it is biological, for example as a result of brain structure (as I faintly remember reading someway back) or whatever, then I don't see why the chromosomes would matter at all. I mean, if a person have the brain structure of a female but in an otherwise male body, doesn't that make "him" a woman? Seemingly, the structure and chemistry of the brain decides so many other things about us, I can't see why gender would be different. What would weigh heaviest as to what we are, brain or cock?
And what if transsexualism can be caused both by nature and nurture? Could we consider the brain-man a man, as opposed to the psyche-man's "a man in a woman's body"? Or does it even matter?
I'm sorry for the thoughty post, but I find transsexuality as a concept very intriguing. I don't really understand it very well, and it raises so many questions about what and who and how we are. It caters very well to the part of me that goes "but what if..? what if..? what if..?" constantly.
I'm sorry if I came off as anything other than sincerely confused.... Surely you can see the cause of my distress, "if my understanding of this is wrong, then what does that mean, and what does that mean as applied to me...?" I don't know that I am a "straight woman," or how I fit on this scale. Other people tell me I am. All I know is that I only like men that way and should be a girl. I don't know what that places me as.
I can only agree with Vector on this. In my mind, regardless of the reasons for feeling so; if you feel you are a woman, then you should be considered a woman. If you also like men, then you'd be a straight woman. Others may insist that you're gay simply because you have a penis too, or whatever, but to me, it's your feelings and perspective that should matter.
@Vector: My self-diminishing parts doesn't like insisting like this, but I would very much like your input on my thoughts like in this post and my previous one. I mostly have only my own musings and thinkings, and I'm not making assertions about the verity of them, so if there are things and views I have not thought of, I would like you to tell me what you think about it. Other people too, of course, but as you seem to be very well read on subjects like these, and certainly much better read than I am.
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