Recent content by tarantula

To be fairer you might want to restate that as a bunch of bitter, mortally wounded, survivors of rape, abuse, and sexism. I think most of hardcore separatist feminism is just wrong, but they didn't just lick all that hate off the grass.* Lots of us have had nothing but misery from the hands...

Regarding the first question:  While i can often be heard babbling about how all the axis of sex are not binary, they are on continuums, it is more accurate to say that they mostly have bimodal distributions. Imagine a bell curve with two peaks and a valley. (insert snarky remark about the...

There's probably a rule, but you two deserve lots of upvotes, for great answers, for good data, for reaching to the crux of issues, and sometimes just for conversations that make me laugh out loud. After wandering through "Which is more important, Body or Mind?" and "What is Self?", we arrive...

There was lots of misery and struggle, there were years of depression, some chronic, others over the untimely death of a son, bouts of under-employment, a bankruptcy, continued struggles with self image, expensive medical treatments, ongoing therapy, blah..blah...blah. As many have reported, the...

MarsAtlas summed it up just so, but let me reiterate. The story you should write is the one about your own shock, disgust and shame when you discover that the very existence of the person you're falling in love with contradicts your deepest instincts. What is wired right into the identity and...

The kind that fit.

"Wandering Son", aka "Hourou Musako" was first a manga series, and probably the best and truest manga ever done on the transgendered. Certainly it's the best I've found, and I've looked through a lot in search of stuff suitable for for pre-teen transgendered kids. These stories are so well done...

"Do you think your previous social experience as a man, and your experience of gender transition, has given you a perspective that sets you apart." What we can testify to better than anyone else, is the reality of sexism in even the most enlightened societies, that the level of respect and...

An OP wrote, "...So it's a mental inability to grasp your true gender and a desire to fundamentally be the different gender...". This remark, entirely by accident, perfectly conveys the fundamental struggle the TG faces: Most people think there's such a thing as "true gender" and that it is...