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- From: scg@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Kelly Martin)
- Subject: Re: Tough questions.
- In-Reply-To: haker@yar.cs.wisc.edu's message of 16 Nov 92 03:20:06 GMT
- Message-ID: <SCG.92Nov17062849@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
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- Reply-To: scg@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
- Organization: Gender Anarchists United
- References: <BxMLBz.Duz.2@cs.cmu.edu> <1992Nov16.032006.20240@cs.wisc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 11:28:49 GMT
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- haker@yar.cs.wisc.edu (Mike Haker) writes:
-
- >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 have run into a small number who don't have this sort of reaction.
- These are the type of people I can out myself to. (In addition to the
- readers of this group, I have outed myself to my main circle of
- friends in email and to about four people in direct face-to-face
- confrontation).
-
- >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.
-
- I am afraid that I'll get saddled with a series of incompetent
- counselors who will not recognize my feelings or try to explain them
- as something they are not. I am not a fetishistic crossdresser.
- Wearing SEXY clothes is arousing; wearing feminine clothes is not.
-
- Right now I am feeling very feminine (thanks to a long talk with a
- friend and a very nice cuddle with another friend), and I must say it
- feels *great*. I just wish the feelings could last... but before long
- the reality of my assigned sex will invade and end this great feeling
- (it's already doing so, *sigh*).
-
- Kelly
- --
- Oh, a vegetarian, eh? Well, at my house, even the plants eat meat.
- -- David A. Honig (honig@thalia.ics.uci.edu)
-