Any Trans Escapists?

[Jazoni89]

I have always found transsexual and the whole concept of gender changing to be a interesting subject. So I have a few questions for you.

1 - When you was younger was you interested in things targeted for the other gender such as Barbie dolls.

2 - How much was the operations and what kind of procedures and changes did you undertake.

3 - What do you think of the Female to Male Transsexuals.

 

[Serenegoose]

I have always found transsexual and the whole concept of gender changing to be a interesting subject. So I have a few questions for you.

1 - When you was younger was you interested in things targeted for the other gender such as Barbie dolls.

Not even slightly.

2 - How much was the operations and what kind of procedures and changes did you undertake.

0. 0 pounds, 0 pence. I've not had any.

3 - What do you think of the Female to Male Transsexuals.

I think the same as I think of all men. I have noticed an odd tendancy for them to be downright hilarious though. Trans guys have the best sense of humour I have ever encountered. It's odd.

 

[Jazoni89]

I have always found transsexual and the whole concept of gender changing to be a interesting subject. So I have a few questions for you.

1 - When you was younger was you interested in things targeted for the other gender such as Barbie dolls.

Not even slightly.

2 - How much was the operations and what kind of procedures and changes did you undertake.

0. 0 pounds, 0 pence. I've not had any.

So do you just take hormone injection's or something?

 

[Verp]

I have two questions:

Firstly, what does the different terms mean exactly: Transvestite, Transexual etc. And what is considered okay to refer you as? Transsexual sounds more like an scientific term to me.

Secondly, for those that are asexual, don't you feel very alienated? So much of our culture revolves around love and/or sex. From love songs on the radio, romance movies, pornography etc. After all, the sex drive is considered to be a huge part of our psychology.

Transvestism means crossdressing and it implies that you're a man dressing up as a woman or a woman dressing up as a man. A transsexual person who wears clothes in accordance to their gender identity isn't crossdressing -- they're not pretending to be of the opposite sex.

While there are some differences in term usage in the terms transsexual and transgender, the consensus among medical professionals seems to be that transsexual is a person whose gender is that of the opposite sex and a transgender is a person whose gender identity doesn't match their sex or the traditional gender binary where the only acknowledged genders are male and female. People use transsexual and transgender interchangeably though, which can be a bit confusing. But, I'm technically a transgender.

One can also talk about transwomen (M to F) and transmen (F to M). My fellow transgenders have sometimes playfully called themselves transwhatevers when lacking a better term to address transgenders without the whole transsexual vs. transgender term issue.

When it comes to asexuality and our culture... Well, you can become desensitised to anything. It's sometimes pretty annoying how sex and romance seems to be everywhere, but as long as there are some safe spaces where you can blow off some steam, like asexual communities on the Internet, things are well for the most part as far as I'm concerned. I mostly just consider erotic media pretty damn boring though.

I think it's a bigger annoyance when people act as if love is something sacred. You can put sex under a microscope and talk about it in scientific terms, but people can get really huffy when you try to analyse love. When a person robs me of the ability to do that, one basically establishes the whole issue as immune and untouchable and I don't quite like it when I can't pick things apart.

 

[SailorShale]

Well, I feel like the odd one here. Everyone is MTF
I'm FTM. So, I can contribute if anybody wants the other side of the coin.

 

[Serenegoose]

So do you just take hormone injection's or something?

Daily pills. Both an anti-androgen to stop testosterone, and an estrogen.

 

[Verp]

I have always found transsexual and the whole concept of gender changing to be a interesting subject. So I have a few questions for you.

1 - When you was younger was you interested in things targeted for the other gender such as Barbie dolls.

2 - How much was the operations and what kind of procedures and changes did you undertake.

3 - What do you think of the Female to Male Transsexuals.

1. When I was younger, I played with both "boy" toys and "girl" toys. My favourite toys ever were my Turtles action figures, plush animal toys, and anything and everything in the shape of a dinosaur.

2. I haven't taken any kind of operation, yet. I want to get rid of my breasts, at the very least, so I could see myself going through surgery to make it happen. I don't want to take hormones.

3. I've only met one face-to-face and he was a great person. I can't say much about others -- they're all people and people are all different.

 

[ShadowKatt]

Any transsexuals here? Or transgenders? Do you happen to at least know a person who's trans? I figured that since the community at The Escapist is so lively, there might be some. If there aren't any, I guess this thread could double as an "Ask a transgender anything" thread, I dunno.

Anyway, I'm transgender. I'm neutrois, which means my gender identity is that belonging to neither man or woman and that I wish to lose the physical traits of my biological sex. I'm not sure if it's going to be a possibility for me in my country, but one can only hope.

Last summer, I had the honour of meeting another transgendered person IRL for the first time and talking about gender issues with them. It was just... awesome. I've also met some transsexuals and they've been very inspiring people to me.

Greetings!

I am a Transexual MtF, and the creator of the [a href=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/groups/view/Transgenders-of-Escapist]Transgenders of Escapist[/a] group, currently at 18 members.
I know that there are even more so but they may or may not want to join it because of many different and varied reasons.
I've been planning to make a group open to the public of Escapist so that more could be informed about what Trans-people are since there is a lot of hate for us on this page, a suprising amount even. Which is why a poster in this thread even commented;
"Suprised this haven't turned into a flame war yet".

So yes, we most certainly are around.​

PS. I shall make my plans I mentioned here within two hours.

NINJA!!!!!!!!

But yeah, there's a whole group of people, and they seem pretty nice. I'm a transgendered individual as well. I thought about going all the way and doing the whole surgery thing for about 17 seconds before I realized that I'd never be able to afford it, but that's really neither here nor there. Point is, you're right, this is a large and varied community and you are most certainly not alone.

 

[Simulated Eon]

Hi hetero male here. (Since everyone else say what they are I would have felt left out otherwise)
Just wanted to ask about the asexual/aromance thing.
Aren't they very closeley related psychologically? I mean isn't love/romance an step towards reproduction in a way that sex is?(even though lust and reproduction has differenses)
Mayby an odd question but it interests me and the more I know the less akward I would fell around persons with different sexualities.

 

[Heraklitus]

I'm so pleased to see such a respectful discussion of this. I think it speaks well of the community here.

 

[Jazoni89]

So do you just take hormone injection's or something?

Daily pills. Both an anti-androgen to stop testosterone, and an estrogen.

Does taking those pills make you have a look similar to a female or does it make you look like a prepubescent male.

Do you have a picture of yourself that you don't mind sharing? I'm not being funny or anything im just very intrigued by all of this. If not then I'll take your word for it not a problem. It would help me out alot though thanks.

 

[Serenegoose]

I'm happy to share my picture. I'll spoiler tag it so it doesn't clutter up the thread though.

Spoiler: Here be dragons

Though, it might be wise to assume not everyone will be so willing to share - I am only doing so as I've already put my pic up on this site, so all I'm doing is sparing you the search.

 

[Shadow-Phoenix]

I'm bisexual (almost as rare as transes i reckon), everyone I know is either in the closet or straight, which is starting to piss me off.
Also, I'm near-certain my dad is VERY homophobic, so I'm gonna try to avoid coming out to him for as long as I can :/

Transes are kuul :3

I'm also Bi but my friends never usually get the signals or even one liners i tend to often say XD.

 

[Verp]

Hi hetero male here. (Since everyone else say what they are I would have felt left out otherwise)
Just wanted to ask about the asexual/aromance thing.
Aren't they very closeley related psychologically? I mean isn't love/romance an step towards reproduction in a way that sex is?(even though lust and reproduction has differenses)
Mayby an odd question but it interests me and the more I know the less akward I would fell around persons with different sexualities.

I have no doubt that they are closely related, but considering that you can have one without the other leads me to believe that there is some disparity between the two. Hell, I know of people who are sexually attracted to one sex and romantically attracted to another, so they ought to be at least somewhat separate things, even though they're both cogs in the same machine.

I think that one ought to remember that humans are very complex animals and that sex and long-term partnership exist for more than to ensure the successful conceiving of offspring -- conceiving is easy, actually keeping offspring and members of one's kin is the hard part. Not only that, but lacking just a few key parts may shift the focus of humans' natural instincts into making people do something other than the instincts "intend" to, it seems.

 

[Tharwen]

Um... There's a question I've been wondering about since the first Transgender-related thread I saw on here...

How different, physically, are a MtF and 'natural' woman/a FtM and 'natural' man?

 

[Simulated Eon]

Hi hetero male here. (Since everyone else say what they are I would have felt left out otherwise)
Just wanted to ask about the asexual/aromance thing.
Aren't they very closeley related psychologically? I mean isn't love/romance an step towards reproduction in a way that sex is?(even though lust and reproduction has differenses)
Mayby an odd question but it interests me and the more I know the less akward I would fell around persons with different sexualities.

I have no doubt that they are closely related, but considering that you can have one without the other leads me to believe that there is some disparity between the two. Hell, I know of people who are sexually attracted to one sex and romantically attracted to another, so they ought to be at least somewhat separate things, even though they're both cogs in the same machine.

I think that one ought to remember that humans are very complex animals and that sex and long-term partnership exist for more than to ensure the successful conceiving of offspring -- conceiving is easy, actually keeping offspring and members of one's kin is the hard part. Not only that, but lacking just a few key parts may shift the focus of humans' natural instincts into making people do something other than the instincts "intend" to, it seems.

Thank you for the answer : )
I also wondered you said that you where aromance right?
If so what are your favorite medias or genres in media?
I only ask since there are quite alot (in my excperience) of romance in books, movies, games etc.
Do you just skim over those parts or... I'm honestly at a loss here since I have no idea what other options there are.

 

[Daedalus1942]

I'm happy to share my picture. I'll spoiler tag it so it doesn't clutter up the thread though.

Spoiler: Here be dragons

Though, it might be wise to assume not everyone will be so willing to share - I am only doing so as I've already put my pic up on this site, so all I'm doing is sparing you the search.

holy hell... wow i hope I look half as good as you when i begin my physical transition...
may I ask, what age did you start to physically transition and develop your female form?
-Tabs<3-

 

[Serenegoose]

holy hell... wow i hope I look half as good as you when i begin my physical transition...
may I ask, what age did you start to physically transition and develop your female form?
-Tabs<3-

I was 19, almost. I came out at 18, prepped the ground for a year, and got everything rolling by january 4th, 8 days before my 19th birthday. I'm 23, nearly 24 now. And thank you! I'm not very photogenic, so as much as it may sound self-congratulatory... I generally look a bit better than I do in my photographs.

 

[Daedalus1942]

Um... There's a question I've been wondering about since the first Transgender-related thread I saw on here...

How different, physically, are a MtF and 'natural' woman/a FtM and 'natural' man?

That's really quite difficult to answer. I guess you would say not very.
I've seen some extremely feminine cisgendered males and i'm seen some incredibly masculine cisgendered females. We all tedn to have aspects of both genders (regardless of what we think).
I do know that in some cases (like my friend Daniel) with FtM's on T, the clitoris can actually develop and grow much larger, almost like a small penis and from what I've heard, it feels like a males as well.
-Tabs<3-

 

[Daedalus1942]

holy hell... wow i hope I look half as good as you when i begin my physical transition...
may I ask, what age did you start to physically transition and develop your female form?
-Tabs<3-

I was 19, almost. I came out at 18, prepped the ground for a year, and got everything rolling by january 4th, 8 days before my 19th birthday. I'm 23, nearly 24 now. And thank you! I'm not very photogenic, so as much as it may sound self-congratulatory... I generally look a bit better than I do in my photographs.

Did you have many issues with facial hair? or did laser or electrolysis help with that?
I don't have the best skin due to having to shave every day as my facial hair literally grows after 3 hours of shaving and to get a thorough enough shave I usually accidentally cut myself.
Makeup is a ***** for me because of it.
I'm 22 now and I always freak out that I've left it too late and I won't be passable at all >.<, but most of all right now more than anything I just don't want to have to shave my damn face every day.
-Tabs<3-
P.S I'm a lesbian, and I think you look incredibly attractive
there is nothing wrong with that photo. if you look even better than that in person.... wow <3