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Originally Posted by Confusedinomicon
To be honest, to a degree I think this is a fad going around. I've found quite a few blogs of people who say they are trans, but generally have no intention of every doing hormones/top surgery/bottom surgery. Or they say they will, but they never get around to it. I've done enough searching to know that the people who really feel like they are the wrong gender will go to great lengths to get their hands on hormone treatment etc.
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Sure there could be a bit of a fad in this. But also it could be that you see a broader spectrum. If you think about it, maybe most people have a little of the other gender in them. Say "normal" women are 95 % female and 5 % male. So a transgender as you normally see them are to the biggest part the opposite of their biological gender. Those often will go very far reaching the goal getting another body.
But then there are other mixes, and I know it further upsets the gender binary people have. If someone in a female body feels they are 75 % male only, will he go through the pain and effort the treatment actually is? His gender dysphoria is probably less than the one feeling next to 100 % male. So then maybe the gender dysphoria is simply not bad enough to want to cut up your body.
Sure would be nice waking up in a body I could relate to and call my own. But since my gender identity is quite androgynous, first of all I doubt a doc would make me the way I see myself. Second, since I'm not a real extreme to one side, I'd rather continue being dysphoric than to go under the knife. I dissociate away from my body instead. Only time I feel really, really bad is in the shower, but I can manage I guess.
All I know is that I'm not a fake.