for the transgendered?
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If a person is truly a male to female (MtF) transsexual, then they are a woman on the inside, with the body of a male. They are not changing the person they are on the inside- they are changing the body to match the person on the inside.\n\nMany people who are MtF transsexual have learned to ACT like a male, but it's just an act- not the real person. That's why people get confused when the person starts acting like they normally would- as a woman, and not a man. People have only seen this person acting like a man, and not a woman, that's why they think acting like a woman is an act and not the real thing.\n\nBeing a female in a male body is definitely NOT a natural state for a woman to be in, so the male body is not natural for the woman in it.\n\nOK- to answer your question, some male bodied transgendered people manage to avoid the masculinizing effects of testosterone- you know, the baby faces, or girly faces? It makes it SO much easier to present to the world as a woman than someone that has strong masculine features. Hoever, if a person decides to change their sex even after years of exposure to testosterone, there are procedures lumped under the title FFS, Or Feminizing Facial Surgery.\n\nThere are also procedures such as liposuction, breast implants, and long term hormonal therapy.\n\nGoogle this website for some pictures of very pretty MtF transsexuals- Lynn Conway- look under transsexual women's successes and the photos section.\n\nAlso- something to think about- the reason why you never see ugly transsexual women is that most people just assume they are women- it's called stealth- there's no better way to hide than out in the open.\n\nHope this helps  =^.^=\n\nP.S. I am a MtF transsexual- not too bad looking, and if I walked past you in the mall, you would just assume I was just another woman. A little tall and Amazonish, but definitely a girl.
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letting people know your gender would be helpful
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Transvestites haven't had sex change operations. Transvestites just have a fettish or desire to dress in the opposite genders' clothing. Most of the time, they don't want the operation...but living as the opposite gender is the first step of many towards an operation. All transvestites still have their jollies attached.\n\nTranssexual people have sex change operations. After that, they are legally the gender their operation assigns. It depends on the talent of the surgeons on duty and how well everything heals (in leau of infection or insain amount of scar tissue) as to how much feeling is had. Some surgeries go downright aweful and the person is horribly mutilated...others go great and there is no complication...it depends.
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It's not specifically transsexuals only, but try tgpersonals.com- completely free.  It's not the most fantastic service, nor the most snazzy looking website, but you get what you pay for, right?  You're guaranteed to be able to find lots of transsexuals on there, as well as cross-dressers, transgender individuals, and so on.\n\nGood luck!
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I can sympathize with you. I am and always have been female through and through but it must be very difficult for you.\nI would love to hear sometime what is feels like to be in a male body yet feel like a female. It is hard to imagine.\nIs it just a craving to wear woman's clothes and makeup?\nI just have no frame of reference, since it was always my body, changing, cycling, having hips and boobs, and my love of flowers, colors, furnishings, men, and animals, that made me think like a woman.\nI wonder if it isn't just a desire to be seductive the way a woman is that is the appeal of it.
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I have never heard of anything that can change gender (or sex) unless through operation as for human beings. And moreover a frog is from a tadpole hatched from an egg.
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transgender....that means when a girl changes her gender or a guy  does to be the opposit sex or....that u think that u r a male trapped in a females body or the opposite.... i heared a doctor talking about that ...so here u go....hope it answered ur question
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I'm a girl, and I would happily change my sex rather than die.  I like being a woman, but I also like being alive, and it'd be fun, at least initially, to be a man.
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Some of the people who answer these things are just guessing for two points - and have no clue what a transsexual is.  Boy George is gay, Ru Paul is a drag queen.  None of these is transsexual.  Look it up in the dictionary people!  Alexis Arquette is correct (forgot who answered that) and also Renee Richards (doctor and tennis player).  There is also a race car drive (the name escapes me) who raced as a man and now races as a woman.  Unfortunately, trans people have been in the closet most of the time (unless outed), but slowly we've been able to see more and more trans people in the public eye.
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I'd want to be a male for a day.. \n\nHowever i would still want to be born as female \nexpierencing childbirth is a beautiful thing\nand my bf and i want a girl... because boys are \nsometimes harder to raise lol
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There is a book, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders, that you might want to consult.  There are people who either hate their gender and that part of them that makes them male or female or strongly believe, feel, or are in some legitimate way convinced that they actually should have been the other gender.  The common process involves several visits with a psychologist over several months to assess whether the person is truthful or aware of what they are asking for.  Then for between 1 and 2 years the person undergoes scrutiny in the role of the other sex.  They will see an endocrinologist who will monitor how they tolerate and adapt to the hormones which facilitate the body's change over this time.  IF things work out, they are permitted to complete the change surgically.  Some opt out of the final steps, being by then comfortable in their approximate role, but for others that simply is not enough.\n\nPlease do not think this is something as casual as crossdressing on a whim.  You are right it is a serious change, but many go through serious efforts to accomplish it because they seriously believe it is true and get the kind of on-going help that confirms or dissuades those who do or do not fit the gender dysphoric role.
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Duct taping, huh?  Ever consider gender reassignment?
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Some studies say that 80 to 100 percent of male-to-female transsexuals experience orgasm after sex reassignment surgery.  Typically the researchers take the respondents' word for it, though.\n\nLots of information why:\nhttp://www.straightdope.com/columns/000908.html
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what does this have to do with lesbian, gay and transgendered?
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I do not know of a particular gender therapist, but there are several in the Little Rock area. There are numerous web sites that you can go to. Try searching on Yahoo for "gay therapists" and the like. Also, check with women's health clinics, many of which are open to the lesbian community and offer gender therapy. If you are looking for transgender information and resources start with the West Georgia Gay and Lesbian Resource Center. They have links all over the nation.
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Interesting question. As an androgyne myself (through no fault of my own, I just happen to belong to a race that here in North America looks very androgynous to the other, more common races) I think people are deeply fascinated with us.\n\nThey'd stop doing whatever they're doing and ask or try somehow to figure out what are you. Together with trying to figure out your ethnicity and age, trying to guess your gender is a universal past-time, it seems.\n\nSince in many cultures transgendered, intersex and androgynous people have been considered to be the ones most in contact with the gods (from the ancient Native Americans and their androgynous shamans to the Celtic long-haired bards who wore ornaments like women), I think it is very likely the images of messengers from the gods or from the powers of nature (angels, faeries, etc.) could have originated with such fascination with people who don't seem the fit either gender presentation.
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Try the Mazzoni Center in Philadelphia.  If they can't help you, they can at least give you a reference to somebody who can.  Their website says, "Transgender services include: primary care, hormone therapy and monitoring, supportive counseling and referrals as needed. While we do not provide hormones on site, we have researched various methods for patients to obtain affordable hormonal therapies that meet their special needs."\nMy friend who's MTF is going through their process right now; she says they're really nice and helpful.