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Saint_Frank
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The whole Bruce Jenner thing is pretty infuriating, to me. I’ll be honest: I’m a female to male transsexual and I’ve been on testosterone therapy for over a year and living as a man for about 6 years now. I don’t think that Jenner is really a transsexual. I think he’s a sort of transvestite called an autogynephile. His actions and the things he says just scream autogynephilia to me. I’ve known people like that in real life and they’re just very “off”. They often decide to “become” women when they’re in middle age or later. They’re usually heterosexual (attracted to women, in their case) and don’t want to have genital surgery. They tend to have a highly sexualized, immature concept of femininity, as transvestites usually do because it’s a sexual fetish/paraphilia. They don’t display dysphoria as children or report perceiving themselves as the opposite sex from a very young age. They also tend to have had very masculine careers, get married and father children before they decide to live as women.Agreed.
I find it really hard to swallow. I read an op/ed piece that stated that young people who also believe they are transgender will likely become more despondent due all the hoopla over Bruce. He has the cash, the contacts, the plastic surgeons, the designers to give lavish him with designer clothes, the media on his side, promoting him…
whereas the person struggling with these feelings has no one, and is more likely to say “I’m damaged goods”, I’ll never be like him , I don’t have those options, and will attempt suicide.
Now he’s touted as a hero, and set up as some kind of success story.
Whereas actual transsexuals report a cross-sex identity from their earliest memories, along with a strong sex/body dysphoria, are distressed about their sex characteristics and desire to transition to their target sex as much as possible. They usually try to keep it quiet and just go on about their lives. They’re not going to feel comfortable getting married and using their genitals to have sex and reproduce.
So there’s a lot of people who call themselves transgender or transsexuals who really aren’t and who usually have a sexual fetish. That’s mostly found among natal males, but it happens in females to a lesser degree (i.e. there’s some FtMs who aren’t actually transsexuals but are a sort of transvestite, too). Real occurrences of transsexualism are very rare, like intersex conditions are rare. But it’s been heavily politicized and turned into a trend. So we have a lot of confused people who are muddying the waters and true transsexuals are thrown in with it.
I got fed up with the whole thing and now have nothing to do with the “trans community” or the wider “LGBT community” anymore. There’s too many weirdos and confused people involved in it who don’t really know who they are. What they really need is therapy. As for me, I just want to get on with my life and not cling to it as some sort of identity. It’s just a medical condition, to me. It’s similar to intersex conditions; it’s a sex differentiation disorder that occurs in utero when the brain is hit with a large amount of cross-sex hormones which causes it to form oppositely sexed compared to the rest of the body (that’s what causes the dysphoria).
I’m quite sure that Jenner has never had intensive therapy. When you have that kind of money, you can pay doctors and surgeons to do what you want. It’s tragic that we’re celebrating someone’s mental illness and not questioning it, even when it’s glaringly obvious that something’s not right here and his story doesn’t add up. That Diane Sawyer interview was extremely bizarre.
It just makes me so mad when people like Jenner are able to get all that surgery and be hailed as heroes when so many of us are dirt poor and have to suffer for years, not having access to treatment.
Lauren Hill should’ve gotten the award.
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