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- From: ap.6443@cupid.sai.com (Michelle Fiera)
- Newsgroups: alt.transgendered
- Subject: Re: Tough questions.
- Message-ID: <BxtyqM.CGI@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 22:35:09 GMT
- References: <BxMLBz.Duz.2@cs.cmu.edu> <1dvo4qINNkvf@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU> <Bxs1tq.8AM@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Sender: scg@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Kelly Martin)
- Organization: Rice University
- Lines: 40
- In-Reply-To: <1992Nov16.034118.20981@cs.wisc.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov16.034118.20981@cs.wisc.edu> you write:
- >In article <Bxs1tq.8AM@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Michelle Fiera <ap.6443@cupid.sai.com> writes:
- >>
- >>This makes 3 of us. The recent conflict going through my head has
- >>been whether or not the fact that I'm ocassionally sexually aroused
- >>while wearing women's clothes means I'm therefore not a TS. I've
- >>finally determined that who or what I get sexually aroused by is
- >>completely distinct from my gender identity. All
- >>these discussions really are great! I hadn't talked to anyone about
- >>any of these feelings until about a week and a half ago, and I've
- >>already learned so much about myself..
- >I guess I'm number 4. Another conflict I have with the current psychological
- >perspective is not just that gender identity is not linked to sexual
- >arousal, but that sexual orientation is not linked to sexual identity.
- >While this is obvious to the non-TS (its called homosexuality), the
- >psychologists (well mine at least) feel that I should be attracted to
- >men and not women if i'm a m->f TS. I'm bi with a leaning to women.
- >I guess that would make me a lesbian traped in a man's body?!
-
- I kind of resemble that remark. I've never found men very physically
- attractive, I've always found women more physically attractive and still
- do. What I do find attractive is the idea of being with a man as a woman,
- more than any specific man himself. That's been the limit to my bisexuality
- so far. Of course it could just be that I haven't met the right man yet, but
- even if it isn't - who cares? It's perfectly possible to be a TS and a
- lesbian. A certain percentage of the population is born TS, and a certain
- percentage is born lesbian (this percentage would be even higher among TSs
- if there are any social factors involved in homosexuality - as we were all
- socialized to be attracted to the gender opposite to our bodies), so it
- follows quite easily that there should exist lesbian TSs.
-
- *hugs*
- Michelle
-
- email adress: ap6443@cupid.sai.com
-
- --
- I don't think that "society" _knows_ if a person is a virgin or not. It's not
- like they have a neon sign flashing on their forehead or something.
- -- Jennifer Brindle (jbrindle@mdd.comm.mit.com), talk.abortion
-