Tag: transgender

Is a Transgender Woman a Woman?

21/12/2024

You will be pleased to know that there is a simple method for answering the question asked in the title of this book. We define what a woman is, and then see if a transgender woman matches that definition. But you might not be so pleased when you find out that defining ‘woman’ immediately gets us in a debate which involves both the philosophy of language and science. On one hand we have conservatives who claim that the word ‘woman’ refers to a set of rigid, biologically defined characteristics involving chromosomes, genitalia and anatomy, and that this definition cannot be changed. They see the definition of the word as set in stone and defined by nature – immutable and unchanging. For them, a transgender woman clearly does not comply with this definition and thus it is incorrect to use the word ‘woman’ to refer to her. While liberals agree…

Is being gay or transgender a sin? Absolutely not…and I can prove it!

21/12/2024

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Leviticus 20:13 is the perfect law for religious zealots because it strikes a double blow at both homosexuality and gender variance. It prohibits men from sleeping with men, and men from having sex with men…as if they were women. However, anyone with a knowledge of the animal kingdom knows that there are plenty of species that are partial to male on male action, the one male presenting himself to be mounted like a female and the second happy to do the mounting. Do we also need to put them to death? A good example is traumatic insemination: a form of sexual reproduction where male insects stab the body of a female to insert sperm into the open wound. Soon after scientists discovered this insemination, they noticed that a certain percentage of male bugs called xylocoris maculipennis had wounds that had been traumatically inseminated. This could only have happened by males…

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

21/12/2024

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(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…

What is gender, anyway?

21/12/2024

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If you are transgender it is likely you have used the word gender thousands of time in your life. But have you ever asked yourself what gender is? This is where the more practical minded of you want to kick the philosopher and say… “look, stop complicating shit… gender is simple… tits, pussy, menstruation on one side – cock, beard, good at lighting barbeques, on the other.” In other words, a biological definition. But there’s a problem… if you go for a biological definition then you are basically saying that transpeople are the gender they were assigned at birth. By definition… you are saying that women have a vagina, certain chromosomal composition, ovules etc… and therefore the transwoman is a man parading as a woman. This definition clearly wouldn’t aid the transgender cause. So, what I thought would be a simple blog post on the definition of gender turned into…

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

21/12/2024

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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…

Is gender purely physical? Are transgender people delusional?

21/12/2024

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(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…

3. Should I transition? – Sexual motives

21/12/2024

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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…

9. Conclusion – transgender fantasy

21/12/2024

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Conclusion There are various transphobic groups that will always obsess over the minutiae of transgender fantasy… looking for differences between them and the fantasies of a ‘real woman’. And guess what… they’ll find them… because they exist. Far from indicating anomaly and invalidation, however, such differences are to be expected. Our sexual experiences have to pass through a mass of male neurology, anatomy and endocrinology, as well as socialisation as a male (that included being told that dressing and behaving like a girl was not correct)… is it any wonder that the resulting sexuality is different? However, putting aside specific fantasies of pre-transition sexuality, there is a wider feeling that the existence of any type of sexual arousal with respect to being a woman invalidates a claim to be transgender. Such negativity springs from our inability to recover from the prudishness and repression of the last century. It is still…

8. Forced feminization and transgender sexuality

21/12/2024

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Forced feminisation is forced upon us Of all the fantasies experienced by some transgender people (pre-transition) the most difficult to understand is forced feminisation. In these fantasies the crossdreamer is forced by a dominant man or woman to dress/behave like a female and perform sex acts. But of course, it’s only hard to understand if you think that the sexuality of a transwoman must be like that of a ciswoman to be considered authentic. Trans critics love to leap on forced fem with the familiar charge ‘a real woman wouldn’t fantasize about being feminised.’ To which I reply ‘Obviously … that’s because a ‘real’ woman has already been feminised by biology.’ As stated ad nauseum… the trans-female sexuality lies buried beneath a mound of male anatomy, socialisation, and in many cases, the belief that crossdreaming fantasies are not a key to their true identity – but a key to…

7. Transgender or transvestite?

21/12/2024

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Attire: a body for hire FETISHIST POSITION: “I understand that clothes can turn a cis woman on… like lingerie for example… but only because they signal impending sexual experience. There’s no doubt, however, that many of your so called ‘transgender’ people are simply transvestites… who get turned on – without any other sexual partners involved – simply by being dressed as a woman. That is a fetish if ever I saw one.” Some crossdreamers – pretransition – have a higher erotic interest in female attire than ciswomen. This is due to the lack of a female body in both subjective and objective experience. As previously stated, sexual fantasy for a transgender person involves an imagined body. However, presuming that sexuality is born at an extremely early age… the infant is unlikely to have intimate knowledge of the female body. His conception, therefore, of how to make this leap becomes intimately…