how can i be transexual?
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you can be a transexual by having a sex change....either male to female or female to male.....\nor by just relating to the opposite sex more....and to the person who answered previously...i dont see how the question is disgusting..
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Hermaphrodites can if they have all of the normal female innards and ovulate, transexuals cannot because they do not have a uterus. Think about the umbilical cord... if their body can make one for the baby than the baby will survive.
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Uh... almost what everyone above me said, but in reverse.\n\nA transexual is (usually) someone who has had, or is pursuing, surgical alteration of their genitalia to match those of the sex he or she is transitioning to, and always someone who is living full time in that chosen gender.  A few consider themselves "no-op" and aren't seeking the surgery but are otherwise the same.  (This option is more common among ftm transexuals, and I think part of it is due to the inadequacies of ftm GRS.)\n\nTransgender includes transexuals, and is often the preferred term for those who go with 'no-op,'  but it also includes crossdressers and transvestites (men or women who only dress as the opposite gender part time.)
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Have sex with another woman.\n\nIf you like it, you're a dyke.\n\nSimple, no?
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What you are - you are you - a unique individual - with feelings different from anyone else and experiences only you have had. \nYou need to do some thinking/soulsearching - You don't need to have sex with a guy to work out if you are bi/lesbian! Do 'straight' people have gay affairs to realise they are straight? No! \nFirstly - Are you attracted to men? Have you thought, imagined longed to be held by a man, for him to make love to you? How do feel about penises? Testicles, firm muscles and chest hair? Think about these and note your reactions inside, what you truly feel. \nRepulsed, intriguged, wanting etc. You say you have a girlfriend -  but don't rush to label yourself - I've seen people announce they are lesbians then later regret it a few years/months down the line because they are attracted to both sexes. \nI'm a lesbian I've never slept with a guy because a)it repulsed me the whole penis thing and b) I've never, ever been attracted to a man. I always preferred womens company, friendship and I was attracted to women before I knew what lesbian or gay even meant.\nIs it your friends that have more issues with this? I know we are in the 21st century but sadly some friends can never accept slight degrees of difference, you need to be one thing or the other - you don't - you have to be what you want to be. \nI advise doing an internet search on the Lesbian and Gay Switchboard finding the one local to you (they are everywhere Brighton, Lancaster, Birmingham, London, Isle of Mann etc) - emailing or telephoning them - perhaps getting some support from qualified staff and support group information. You stay strong and don't rush into anything - the most important question - What do you want? Who do you want to be?
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You do not, I repeat, you do NOT have to have sexual experiences with each gender to know you are bisexual!  Take it from me, a bisexual virgin.  That would be akin to saying that all virgins have no sexual orientation, because they haven't done anything.  Yet go ahead and try to tell your average virgin that they aren't straight- it's not going to fly.  Similarly, wouldn't that mean that there are no gay people until they've had gay sex?  That's not true- many gay virgins come out.\n\nSexual orientation is about who you are attracted to, sexually.  You may or may not be bisexual (a lot of women find other women attractive but consider themselves straight, so it's up for debate), but you don't have to prove it to anyone by having sexual experience.\n\nHope that helps!
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My advice would be to really take a considerable amount of time to think this decision over and talk about it with with your family and friends, as well as mental health care professionals. Because once you convert to the opposite sex there's no coming back and the implications will obviously be huge. (I'm assuming, of course, that you have surgery and/or hormone therapy in mind.) If you're serious about a sex change operation and an entire lifestyle change, I would recommend making an appointment with your regular physician and asking for a starting point. Your doctor will probably refer you to a psychiatrist who'll need to evaluate you; I'm pretty sure it's required by law in most places. Good luck!
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I don't know the answer to most humiliating thing, but I researched this, and this is what I found for you to be able to understand better...\n\nPut yourself in their shoes, then read all of this from their perspective... maybe you will come to a better understanding... \n\n\nThe Underage Transsexual:\n\nYou are under 18, and you know exactly what you are, and how much your body does not fit you. You have probably known since your earliest memory, usually around age five. This is very typical for transsexuals, what is not typical is that you can actually face all of this so young in life. You are very brave, or else suffering a very, very great deal. What should you do?\n\nYou will not like my answer, but if you follow it, you will survive, and you will succeed.\n\nIn general, wait. I know that this is a terrible thing to hear. I know that you are suffering and it is the last thing you want to hear. But understand something clearly: you have three-fourths, or MORE of your life ahead of you. Things feel extra desperate to you because you have only been alive for less than two decades. Your pain is real, but the intensity of it is being magnified by time and by the power of your raging hormones.\n\nThe one thing you need to do is to endure, and to prepare. Endure the pain, and prepare for when you are not powerless, for when you can truly take action to fix your life. If you are good at doing this, your transition will be almost the best imaginable. You will be able to sail through what others suffer through.\n\nTo transition, you will need three things, when you get old enough to act. You will need the best job you can get, to support yourself completely, and afford the hormones, and the surgery, if you choose to go for surgery. That job needs to be as high tech, as intellectual, as you can make it. Such jobs not only pay more, they also attract more educated and liberal people to them, meaning you can stay employed while you transition. You also need education...about your condition, and about your options, and about the world. You need smarts to survive. Lastly, you need to be alive. Yes, I know the misery is great, and suicide is always on your mind. I was there myself. Face it, you are going to have to hurt for awhile: but you must endure, because you cannot transition if you are dead. Stay alive, and win.\n\nAs for parents: you should be able to tell what your parents attitudes are about these matters. If they are narrow, face that and keep your secret until you are old enough to survive on your own. It won't be that long. Seriously, it really won't; it just feels like it.\n\nLastly, and this is absolutely vital: DO NOT have children before transition under false pretenses. By false pretenses, I mean getting involved with someone who you are in love with, and figuring that this will cure your being transsexual, and that if you just get married and have a kid, it will change you, and straighten you out.\n\nThis delusion, that by jumping into a 'normal' life you can cure yourself, or make the pain go away, or fix your problem is the main way that transsexuals mess up their lives, and also the lives of others. It simply does not work. All that will happen is that you will end up losing your children, and your partner, and still be driven to transition, only at a much older age, with more problems, and less perfect results. The younger you transition, the better you will pass, and look, and succeed. Don't screw up your potential, and avoid the delusion that you can be 'cured' by pretending to be normal.\nSource(s):\n\nhttp://www.transsexual.org/
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THIS IS WHY RELIGION IS EVIL!!! THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH HOMOSEXUAL FEELINGS AND ATTRACTIONS, PEOPLE IN GENERAL ARE BEAUTIFUL, IT IS OK TO BE ATTRACTED TO ANOTHER MAN OR WOMEN, THE IMPORTANT THING IS THAT YOU ACCEPT WHO YOU ARE, YOU WILL NEVER BE HAPPY UNTIL YOU DO!\n\nbut anyway get a sex change, then you don't have to worry about "the sin of a man being attracted to another man" then you'll be a women with and Adam's apple, large hands, and a deep voice that's attracted to men...\n\nBut in all honest i doubt your god cares if you're gay, he made you that way didn't he?
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First stop calling yourself Gay or Bi. Then stay away from gay people or at least from their organs. Do away with the gay mannerisms. Become who it is you want to be: A MAN! Your a man now and you want a woman to keep you warm. Go to the STRAIGHT bars. Buy a woman some drinks. Make sure she sees all that money in your wallet. If that doesn't work out, go to the next woman and so on. Think of it as training. You'll find the woman of your dreams and have fun finding her. Have fun. Be happy. Just don't be GAY! \n\nOh, and Tessa...Our sexuality is in our minds, not our genes. Because if it was in our genes, we'd find the gay gene and ERADICATE IT!
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Good question.  Theoretically you can be one from birth, but you wouldn't really know since you're not thinking of sex that young.  To know you're a lesbian (or straight, or bi, or into sheep, or whatever) would take a knowledge of love and/or sex at some level and the realization that you're interested in other women (again, or whatever).  I'd venture to say you might be able to figure it out before elementary school's over.  Then again you might not figure it out until you're in your golden years.
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A transsexual is an individual who plans to have or who has had SRS (sexual reassignment surgery) or hormone therapy.  Contrary to popular belief they don't all want to transition b/c they're a man trapped in a woman's body, or a woman trapped in a man's body.  Nor does everyone know from a very young age that they want to transition and not every transsexual hates the body they were born with.  There are complicated reasons other than that related to an individual's desire to transition.  Transsexuals can be heterosexual, gay, lesbian, bisexual, or any other sexuality.  Eventually however their bodies will reflect their gender with the help of the methods listed above and this new body is different from the sexed term assigned to the body  and the person at birth.
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Resources- YES\n\nhttp://www.transexuality.org\nhttp://www.ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/conway.html\nhttp://www.annelawrence.com/\n\nFun- sorry, but no.
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You can't may not be really human !!\n\n=0)\nGood luck
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You want to stop being a transvestite? Why? It isn't a lifestyle for myself but is it something you're ashamed of, or does it just not fit in with your self image?\n\nIf you want to get out of it then stop dressing as a member of the opposite sex.  However you should look at the reason why you want to get out of it and how much of a part of yourself it is.  If dressing as a member of the opposite sex makes you feel whole then not doing so is probably going to make you not feel whole.\n\nI guess the moral of the story is to accept yourself and love yourself for who you are.
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There's a lot of web sites which can help you this condition.  The most important thing is to learn to love yourself for who you are, and to seek help if you need it (which you are doing already!)\n\nCheck the links below for more info
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try being bi a while. maybe meeting that special someone will change something. i don't know. if it's a matter of obsession with the same sex, there should be counseling for that. or addiction to sex. \ndon't go out with women already thinking about bedding them. try to build something first. friendship, casual dating, give it time to change into something more. maybe someone will give them that spark of interest. don't rush it. don't try cold turkey.