Is this how Cross Dressers behave and feel?
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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.
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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.
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Thrisan — 10 years ago(June 01, 2015 12:06 PM)
http://youtu.be/Erexuu8PTo8
http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/22987018
The YouTube video is about how transsexual brains and non-transsexual (cisgender) brains were dissected to find similarities. The article is about how an MRI was used to analyze transsexual brains and cisgender brains.
In both cases the transsexual brain was shown to either match the brain or be nearly identical to the gender of they identify as. So the transsexual female brain matches the cisgender female brain. It's biological, not psychological. -
mephisto__666 — 10 years ago(November 07, 2015 07:24 PM)
The face that there are physiological correlations does not equal causation.
You can see when someone is in love by MRI scans too but no one says that is a purely biological thing with no attachment to environment. It's a leap to say it's biological rather than psychological (putting intersex people to the side). I get tired of people using correlation as though it is causation, it is not the same. If you identify as another gender psychologically, of course your brain will function differently, but that's likely the effect, not the cause. -
Thrisan — 10 years ago(December 27, 2015 01:43 AM)
Being in love changes the levels of natural drugs in your brain, but the study I linked specifies that brain structures are different. So your analogy is false.
If you identify as another gender psychologically, of course your brain will function differently, but that's likely the effect, not the cause.
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nitestar95 — 10 years ago(December 12, 2015 09:34 AM)
The problem with your statement, is that they found lots of straight male brains that had the same similarities to female brains. So what your brains are physically don't necessarily mean you'll identify as female. There's a lot more going on than anyone chooses to admit. So many people feel the need to blame it on someone else. The simple solution is to stop treating people who feel this way as defective. After all, there are plenty of so called normal people who have plenty of mental deficiencies. So nobody's perfect. Until the world can understand that, we'll always have nutcases that want to tell others how wrong they behave, while insisting that they, themselves, are of course perfect. So to those of you who feel the need to insist on butting into other people's lives, all I can say is blow it out your butt. And just leave the rest of the world to live their lives the way they want to. Because it's none of your business.
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Thrisan — 10 years ago(December 27, 2015 01:51 AM)
The problem with your statement, is that they found lots of straight male brains that had the same similarities to female brains.
Firstly, what are you talking about? The study was focused on an area of the brain known to have different structures in cis females and cis males, so your quoted text is irrelevant.
Secondly, I don't think trans people are defective, nor did I say that. You're the one who brought up that word.