Hairloss in transgender women – a five step ninja soloution

Anna Kamari

Transgender

Intro… If putting you in a male body ain’t proof enough that God hates you…then putting you inside a male body that’s going bald surely clinches the argument. Baldness! Why haven’t the boffins invented a cure yet? I mean, Mars is 200 million clicks from earth and it’s got an atmosphere of CO2 and dust storms…but still Matt Damon got there and grew a bunch of potatoes. If humans can do that, surely we can grow some hair on a balding head. Apparently not! A definitive cure for baldness still alludes us; and let’s face facts: this is a terrible state of affairs for transwomen. Every time I see a sister with a clearly male hairline, a little bitchy voice in my mind says… “Girl, I don’t know what’s receding more: your hairline or your chances of passing.” As I’ve resolved to tamp down my inner bitch and help people more, I’m…

End the Republicans: Kavanaugh is a stark reminder of transgender political priorities!

Anna Kamari

Transgender

As members of the transgender community we are all members of a minority, and as members of a minority we can’t afford to be apolitical or apathetic. Why? …because if we let our guard down for even a minute, we will suffer the erosion of our rights and our dignity and our happiness. By failing to transition from the Obama era to the Trump era, we have all let our guard down – and this is the main thing we should take away from that revolting spectacle in the senate on Friday.   Watching the Republicans ram a supreme court judge down our throat by stomping on all norms of process was the triggering of an alarm. The spewing of patriarchal rage and blubbering that followed was the alarm’s deafening siren. It was warning us of… The impending arrival of a conservative dominated supreme court. The moral degeneration of the…

4. Should I transition? – ‘Passing’ and appearance

Felix Conrad

Transgender

(If you just arrived from Google, you’ve jumped into page 4 of our transition feature. Start with our amazing SHOULD I TRANSITION? test by clicking on the image below. If not, please continue reading.) Passing…… is an unfortunate choice of words. This is because it has a double meaning… 1. Passing… as in passing or failing. 2. Passing… as in passing oneself off as ie. impersonating. Rather than get involved in a linguistic debate we shall simply talk about your ‘appearance’ once you transition. Transgender people always have strong feelings on the subject of appearance and the ability of a transwoman to look like a cis-woman, and you will be no different. However, your views are only relevant up to a point. The fact is that we live in a visual world, and people will respond to you based on the way you look. Not everyone, of course – there…

Should I ‘come out’ to my friends and family and tell them I am transgender?

Felix Conrad

Transgender

  Like most people, I believe in the twenty-first century principles of equality, openness and tolerance. I also believe people should be true to themselves and to others. However, I do not have it clear whether it is wise or necessary to out yourself as transgendered, autogynephiliac or crossdreamer. In the first place, it is not a straightforward jump out of the closet. When you tell people you’re gay they immediately know what you’re talking about. If someone wants to come out as an autogynephiliac they’re gonna have a lot of explaining to do. I give you an extract from Electra to illustrate this. “Think of a group of adults describing their relationship with blowjobs to a panel of ordinary citizens. First up comes a heterosexual woman: “I’m a woman and I like to suck men.” Everyone on the panel nods their head in understanding. Then comes a gay guy:…

The damaging binary is not male and female but sexuality and gender.

Felix Conrad

Transgender

I’ve decided to publish this comment that was posted on my article ‘Are Sissies Transgender?’. It demonstrates how these monolithic ideas we have about the transgender condition on one hand…and sexually inspired gender-bending on the other…are neither helpful nor representative of reality.  Here’s the text of the comment…   Experiential Reality I’m a non-binary person. I experience no dysphoria. I like myself. My body serves me well, and I feel pretty*. So when I started fucking around with my gender under the guidance of a very loving genderqueer partner, I didn’t really know what to think of this journey. From the start gender was wrapped up in sexuality. It was never *forced* femme as a form of degradation but joyfully and enthusiastically received femme. It made me feel expansive, boundless, beautiful, and free. I let myself present in ways I never thought were available to me. I started seeking information…

10 minutes of common sense for transgender people

Felix Conrad

Transgender

Having written two books with sometimes opposing ideas and a whole range of articles under different names, I would like to share a concise opinion of my current views on all things transgender. Most of it’s…common sense. Why do I see myself as a woman in my sexual fantasies and why is my gender identity blurred or contrary? We cannot answer questions about sexual identity with even the slightest certainty. Scientists do not yet understand the causes of homosexuality, so called ‘fetishes,’ or so called ‘paraphilias,’ so how do you expect them to explain gender-variant sexuality? In fact, we all take heterosexuality for granted but there are still fundamental questions that need to be answered about that! As a culture we are accustomed to the wonders of science and ‘knowing stuff,’ meaning we forget that there are many aspects of the human brain that are beyond the reach of contemporary…

2 different types of transgender awakening.

Felix Conrad

Transgender

While Jack Molay sits in his log cabin, somewhere in Scandinavia, reading his scholarly books on the science of transsexualism… Felix and I watch teen transvloggers on youTube. I’m addicted… but I gotta say… if I ever see another ‘three months on hormones video’ I will kill myself. I’ve actually come to the conclusion that psychologists have got it all wrong: forget all that shit about Barbies when you were young… the best way to know if you’re transgender is if you have an irresistible compulsion to start a vlog. Sorry, speaking more seriously, from my youtube research I have noted two ways to discover you’re transgender. The first is called the all-knowing… the second is the chicken-chow-mein awakening. The ‘all-knowing’ is a tongue in cheek term. It refers to that quality often ascribed to God, and I use it bitchily to refer to that all-wise, all-seeing, all-knowing transgender chick…

3. Should I transition? – Sexual motives

Felix Conrad

Transgender

  Deep down, is it all about sexual desire? As a transgender person, you inhabit an alien body. Wanting to experience sex in the right body, and getting sexual pleasure from imagining sex in that body is, therefore, only natural. That’s why we consider crossdreaming to be a clear sign of an underlying transgender psychology. However, if you have been socialised as a male and the only conscious remnant of that psychology lies within your sexuality, then it is unlikely you will adapt well to transition: passion is not enough. Passion fades, starting with one of its main engines – testosterone. Hormone therapy means your libido will take a direct hit, changing the way in which you think and feel about sex, and this takes some getting used to. More important, however, will be the passion damping effects of reality: you will be constantly exposed to the stimuli of outwardly…

Is gender purely physical? Are transgender people delusional?

Felix Conrad

Transgender

(To understand this article you really need to start with part 1 what is gender?) Part 3 MAN IN THE STREET: “Is there really a part of a transgender person that is the other gender, or are they just suffering from some kind of mental disorder? What I’m saying is that – as a humane society we allow them to change their assignation – but we all know deep down that gender is what your birth genitalia is and the related anatomy, hormones and chromosomes.” TRANSPHOBIC: “You can change the letter on their ID but we all know they are the gender they were born into because gender is purely physical. To put it bluntly… if you’re born with a penis you’re a boy and you always will be and anyone that says they ain’t a boy who has a penis is suffering from a mental delusion and they need…

A definition of the term ‘transgender’ by a gender therapist

Felix Conrad

Transgender

A licensed gender therapist gives her interpretation of the term ‘transgender.’ A definition of transgender: a fundamental disagreement with the way we categorize gender. (To understand the logic of the definition we propose on this page you really need to start with the previous post… what is gender?) Part 2 In a category system with which the participants agree, society assigns a category to an individual and when the individual thinks of themselves – who they are and what type of person they are – they use the same categories. So, you could approach a woman called Maria and and say ‘Maria, tell me about yourself,’ and she will reply, ‘I’m a 28 year old woman, I’m Irish, I’m a journalist, I’m a single mother and a keen badminton player.’ These are all categories which both society and herself assign her. There is complete agreement between the outer world and…