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- From: haker@yar.cs.wisc.edu (Mike Haker)
- Newsgroups: alt.transgendered
- Subject: Re: Tough questions.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.032006.20240@cs.wisc.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 03:20:06 GMT
- References: <BxMLBz.Duz.2@cs.cmu.edu>
- Sender: news@cs.wisc.edu (The News)
- Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison -- Anthropology Dept.
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- In article <BxMLBz.Duz.2@cs.cmu.edu> anonymus+2941@godiva.nectar.cs.cmu.edu (Confused of Springfield) writes:
- >once in a while somehow invalidates my transsexual leanings. I sort of
- >feel that I ought to hate my male genitalia more than I actually do (my
- >attitude is more "Well, they're very nice as male sex organs I guess,
- >and they seem to work okay; it's just that I wasn't exactly after *male*
- >sex organs"). It seems like my getting sexual pleasure from them
- >contradicts the idea that I'd like to be rid of them.
-
- In many ways I feel the same way. But I think the difference is that
- we do not have any resistence to getting rid of them. Almost every
- guy I talk to, has an almost biological 'knee-jerk' reaction to the
- thought of losing their balls. I don't (I pretend I do when socially
- appropriate). In fact that was almost invariably the first question I
- was asked by my friends when I told them about my feelings.
-
- >"Worse" perhaps, I've also masturbated while crossdressed. Does this
- >mean that I'm not transsexual at all but that just a Fetishistic
- >Transvestite, who isn't comfortable with that label (since it seems more
-
- Again, I am the same, and unfortunately this made my shrink label me the same
- way, and said I was not 'an appropriate candidate for gender reassignment'.
- I still feel there is more to my feelings than just trying to explain
- away a fetish. I have no doubt that my feelings of gender dysphoria are
- real and that I am a female inside who happens to have male genitalia.
- Right now I am able to live with this apparent contradiction.
-
- >Similarly, my amateurish attempts at gaffing feel nice (I say amateurish
-
- Well here we differ. Gaffing has NEVER been anything but painful for me.
- (sorry for the double negative)
-
- Best Wishes
- Michael/Michelle H.
-