Born in the Wrong Body?

MizzDeaf said:
Sabrina and Defee -- He was born as FEMALE and now he is MALE by transgender.

I am pre-op :)
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Oh ok..cool!
 
Fly Free said:
Oceanbreeze -- ur comment of "Personally, I think diversity is good, because it teaches us tolerance!" is bootifully and wonderfully said!! i agree with u wholeheartedly on this! :thumb: and *HUGS*

Transgender issues has always been around -- ive once met a FTM in person several years ago when he was in the process of changing and he was so open on his explaination on his experiences and etc -- i found him to be a very interesting and informative! people who feels that they are an opposite gender inside their bodies have feelings too and with those in the TG community still have to battle issues with discrimination, non-acceptance and so forth to me is insane! they are included in name with the GLBT community and yet the "T" is often left out in the GLBT community which is sad -- i advocate inclusion of everybody in the GLBT community to be more accepting and understanding of eachother's POVs -- this little girl in question on this article has been discussed some time ago and MizzDeaf is correct on that -- i personally feel that she is still *growing up* -- her bones are not yet finished growing and i think with the "T" therapy thats involved with FTM transitioning may be a bit too early for her cuz at her current age i dont think she has reached the puberty stage -- but then again, i dont know how "T" therapy would affect a young girl growing up to eventually have SRS (sex reassignment surgery) -- same applies to the boys getting hormone treatments while still pre-pubscent when theyre in the process of SRS to become a female -- uhmm thats something else entirely ofc and i dont know yet on how that would have been affected to the kids who strongly desires transition from their bio body to the opposite gender
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Thank you, Fly! Personally, I'm a woman and I'm happy the way I am, but I know there are many people who feel trapped in bodies they weren't meant to be in, and how hard that must be for them. I think it's a shame that the so-called mainstream in this country goes out of their way to make an already difficult life harder for the transgendered person. I really believe that this country would be a LOT better off if we would just accept people's differences. I do not understand why this country is SO stinking fear based, but it is.
 
Another possible ??

What if your parents were BEGGING to have baby to be boy or girl.... faith till delivery baby by wrong gender?? Will it let brian contract with mother's womb to tell which gender ?? Sometime, parents wish it was BOY but end up born as GIRL. I see that before with other and maybe possible ??

What do you think? :)
 
MizzDeaf said:
What if your parents were BEGGING to have baby to be boy or girl.... faith till delivery baby by wrong gender?? Will it let brian contract with mother's womb to tell which gender ?? Sometime, parents wish it was BOY but end up born as GIRL. I see that before with other and maybe possible ??

What do you think? :)
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Well, here's something interesting...

When Mom was pregnant with my sister, they were CONVINCED she was going to be a boy. They were so convinced that my parents had no girls names picked out. So, when Mom had her, and she turned out to be a GIRL, they were totally caught off gaurd, and were thinking "OK, NOW what do we do?" LOL

As it turned out, they were just glad she was healthy and named her after my Dad giving her the female variation on his name instead of the name they had previously picked out. :)
 
Oceanbreeze said:
Thank you, Fly! Personally, I'm a woman and I'm happy the way I am, but I know there are many people who feel trapped in bodies they weren't meant to be in, and how hard that must be for them. I think it's a shame that the so-called mainstream in this country goes out of their way to make an already difficult life harder for the transgendered person. I really believe that this country would be a LOT better off if we would just accept people's differences. I do not understand why this country is SO stinking fear based, but it is.
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always welcome Oceanbreeze! :D

i agree with ur observation of this country being so fear based which is obviously such a shame -- there are so many ppl in need of being EDUCATED *smh*
 
Oceanbreeze said:
Well, here's something interesting...

When Mom was pregnant with my sister, they were CONVINCED she was going to be a boy. They were so convinced that my parents had no girls names picked out. So, when Mom had her, and she turned out to be a GIRL, they were totally caught off gaurd, and were thinking "OK, NOW what do we do?" LOL

As it turned out, they were just glad she was healthy and named her after my Dad giving her the female variation on his name instead of the name they had previously picked out. :)
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:lol: that has happened to my parents as well -- they had thought i would be a boy and were set on naming me after my dad but ended up finding out im a girl so thus was given a female variation of my dad's name too :lol:
 
Ahh -- My mother wanted twin boys!!! I come out as girl, no name for me :( I get my name from singer instead anyone in relation because all of my families think I will be one of twin boys. Oh well, guess wrong again. :)
 
I really believe that this country would be a LOT better off if we would just accept people's differences.
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Yeah...and I wonder if we would have so many TGers opting for sex change operations then. It does seem that a LOT...and I mean a LOT of TG people really buy into gender stereotypes and strict gender roles. I think there ARE true TGs, but the amount and number of them are problaly much lower then people think. I mean there's basicily nothing drasticly different between a man and a woman...except for the fact that one has an innie and one has an outie.
 
I was watching a show about female to male sex change and it's amazing. Researchers find evidence that there are considerable differences in their brains that may shape their perception of their genders.

I think parents need to accept that they have no control over their children's sexual development. Let them be who they are sexually. They can try to masculate or feminize them but studies consistently show that they just can't.

-jeff
 
TheXandieBoy said:
Yeah, I'm deaf since born. Yeah, it's seem that I'm only one deaf and transgender in here at alldeaf.com :mrgreen:
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Hi, I figured out that I was a transgender of the androgyne or transgenderist type. They may feel like they don't really fit into male and female roles. Those people's minds can be bigendered and alternate between male and female Or they can feel like they'r'e agender, feeling like neither male or female. They use the words sex and gender differently. Sex is the physical aspect and gender is of the mind. They say "Sex is between your legs and gender is between your ears." If the physical parts look in-between, the word intersexual is used. The word transsexual is used for the subset of transgenders who get the operations because the physical parts are being changed, thus the word sex in transsexal.
I'm also deaf and been so since birth.

RedFox
 
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Sabrina said:
http://www.oprah.com/tows/slide/200405/20040512/tows_slide_20040512_01.jhtml

As a little girl, Kayla preferred playing with dirt to playing with dolls. Around age six, she started wearing boys' clothing like baggy pants and boxers.

Counselors said it was a phase, but Kayla says she felt strongly that she was a boy. Confused about who or what she was, Kayla began failing at school and fighting bitterly with her mother, Angelina. During one explosive argument, Kayla bit and kicked her mother. Angelina called a crisis hotline, and Kayla stayed in a children's hospital for a couple of weeks. After leaving the hospital, Kayla watched an Oprah show about transgendered kids. "A boy was expressing his feelings about being the opposite sex," she recalls. "I knew this is who I was. It was like a miracle."

Kayla then told her mother that she believed she was a boy living in a girl's body. Angelina knew that she needed help, so she found a therapist who specializes in transgender issues.

Jana Ekdahl, a clinical psychotherapist and gender specialist, works with transgender adults and adolescents. She says that one of three things could happen with Dylan: he could grow up to be gay, he could be transgendered, or he could grow out of this behavior.

"If the child is transgendered, they're transgendered. … There's really nothing you can do to change that, nor is there anything you've done to cause that. Frequently parents, especially mothers, think they've done something to cause it. But that's just not true. It occurs in the womb. The research so far shows that it occurs in the first trimester. Something happens whereas the brain develops in one direction and the body develops in another. For instance, for Dylan, it might be that his body was developing as a boy and his brain was developing as a girl. Then he comes out and he looks like a boy. So it's much easier to change the body; we can't change the brain."
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Well I used to feel like I was born in the wrong body. I once considered a sex change operation, but I like guys. I am not gay, but my family seem to think so. I've been mistaken for a guy a lot. I'm my parents' only daughter which is tough for them. I have grown up with four brothers and looked up to them. I liked playing 'manly' sports and hanging with my friends - most of them are guys. I never liked (and still don't) wearing dresses or acting feimine. I almost act like a guy sometimes... which is useful, but seriously it's hard enough being the way I am.
 
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