Is this how Cross Dressers behave and feel?
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thepansybastard — 11 years ago(January 17, 2015 05:28 PM)
ColGold, thanks for your input, and thank you for sharing your story. I am very glad you have a strong support system. I have several friends who do not and it's quite a struggle for them.
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edgemarty-152-556428 — 11 years ago(January 21, 2015 02:52 PM)
Colgold
I guess it is all about being comfortable in your own skin. I hope you find happiness and love. I think we go around many times until we do not have to anymore but, I could be wrong. Enjoy life while you can and evolve. You are brave and honest and you should take pride in that.
Stay Gold
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chloegold123 — 11 years ago(January 28, 2015 08:31 AM)
No that's not correct.
Transsexual can be grouped with transgender (although trans or transgender is a much more accepted term with a better connotation) but it is kind of insulting to group cross dresser, transvestite or other similar terms (like drag queen/king) with transgender. Transgender, in a nutshell, refers to a individual who lives as and identifies as a gender other than the one they were assigned at birth. Cross dresser, transvestite, drag queen/king, etc. are terms used to refer to an individual who enjoys dressing as the opposite gender but these individuals typically have no desire to transition and live as the opposite gender. They are NOT the same -
freebird3411 — 10 years ago(July 20, 2015 05:44 PM)
No. Transgender people specifically feel that their birth gender was INCORRECT. It's beyond dressing up. It's not an umbrella term.
Cross dressers/transvestites are cis people who enjoy dressing in clothes of the opposite sex. At the end of the day they are still the gender they were assigned at birth and they are happy with it.
Think back to the camp scene where they were talking about someone who got kicked out of camp for using hormones because the other men at the camp didn't want to BE women, they just liked dressing up. Remember how sad Maura was about that? Because Maura felt that she IS a woman and wants to live as one permanently. Maura is transgender. The others at the camp were transvestites. -
FreyjaSvansdottir — 10 years ago(December 27, 2015 02:07 PM)
No, it certainly is not! Transgender means just what it says, the opposite of cisgender, that one does not identify with the gender assigned at birth. Trans or Trans* on the other hand is an umbrella term encompassing transgender, gender queer, etc. and also transvestite. A transvesite is in no way transgender, that is they identify as the gender they were assigned at birth but get sexual pleasure from dressing as the opposite gender.
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aoa8212 — 10 years ago(December 23, 2015 11:48 PM)
Basically it comes down to this. The main character on the show, Maura (formerly Maura), is a male-to-female transgender. At first, back in 1994, she just cross-dressed and went to that camp for cross-dressers with her cross-dresser friend. However, unlike him, she actually felt like she was the opposite gender and wanted to live as that gender. There are certain limitations on the show. Jeffrey Tambor is a cisgender man and he's not going to take hormones or get surgery in order to more "realistically" or "authentically" portray a trans woman. So essentially Maura's appearance has stayed the same throughout the show. She looks the same even though her journey is progressing. In real life she would likely look more like the transgender actresses seen on the show after being on hormones and getting plastic surgery. MTF trans women tend to want to do that in order to make their outward appearance match their outer identity. The show is sacrificing a bit of that in exchange for the talents of Tambor and for his ability to portray Mort when Mort still presented as a man.
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FreyjaSvansdottir — 10 years ago(December 28, 2015 08:05 PM)
I am a transwoman and personally know many transwomen none of whom have had plastic surgery or as we would call it FFS of Facial Feminization Surgery, so I don't think the fact that Maura has not gotten it is unrealistic especially considering her age,
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edgemarty-152-556428 — 10 years ago(May 30, 2015 04:16 AM)
Yeah, Maura, the guy who likes to indulge in women's affectations like clothes, name and such. All outward manifestations and only inward in psychological and emotional ways. He is not taking hormones or opting for surgery or even undergoing counseling. He just enjoys the trappings of the female species.
Cheers
Stay Gold
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Thrisan — 10 years ago(May 30, 2015 01:19 PM)
Being a transsexual is biological. Biologically they have the brain of the sex they identify as. It doesn't matter whether or not they take hormones, get surgery, or even go to therapy, none of that will change that transsexuals were born as transsexuals, it's not a choice.
