Maybe, like so many MtF transsexuals, she just wanted to forget that she was ever a boy
I once read something to the effect that transsexuals don't identify with their chosen gender so much as they reject their birth gender.
Does this seem familiar to you? I call myself "ungendered" and claim that I will not surgically or hormonally alter my body (which seems less and less carved-in-stone as the years go by), and I feel that way. As a child, I had a fantasy male alter ego, chose male roles in games, and violently rejected all "girly" things. To this day, I am pleased to receive mail for "Mr. Williams," and I'm almost put out when mass-marketers discover my correct biological sex and include the Ms. title.
I often muse that, even with bottomless financial resources, a supportive family, and vastly improved surgical techniques, I wouldn't want to become a man because I'd be just as horribly out-of-place as a man as I am as a woman. :) Like the old blues song, I'm a mannish woman or a woman-actin' man.
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Date: 2005-07-13 05:29 pm (UTC)I once read something to the effect that transsexuals don't identify with their chosen gender so much as they reject their birth gender.
Does this seem familiar to you? I call myself "ungendered" and claim that I will not surgically or hormonally alter my body (which seems less and less carved-in-stone as the years go by), and I feel that way. As a child, I had a fantasy male alter ego, chose male roles in games, and violently rejected all "girly" things. To this day, I am pleased to receive mail for "Mr. Williams," and I'm almost put out when mass-marketers discover my correct biological sex and include the Ms. title.
I often muse that, even with bottomless financial resources, a supportive family, and vastly improved surgical techniques, I wouldn't want to become a man because I'd be just as horribly out-of-place as a man as I am as a woman. :) Like the old blues song, I'm a mannish woman or a woman-actin' man.