By and large, the transsexual condition is referred to, and often dealt with, as a sexual problem. Gender identity and sexuality are two separate aspects of our lives. Yet, it is amazing how many people have trouble conceptualizing the difference. Since transsexuals began approaching the medical community after W.W.II, the general view of those practitionersContinue reading “Trans Man, Female to Male Transgender: Sexuality”
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FTM Related Books
Here Is A List of Female to Male Related Books… Bornstein, Kate. Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us. Vintage Books, 1995. Bornstein, Kate. My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely. Routledge, 1998. Brown, Mildred L. & Chloe Ann Rounsley.Continue reading “FTM Related Books”
What is FTM?
The border between intersex (hermaphrodites) and transsexuals is very fluent. In fact it can be argued that both are two sides of the same phenomena: during the early devellopment of the fetus the body develloped in a nonstandard way, making it difficult for third persons to guess the gender of the baby after birth. InContinue reading “What is FTM?”
Transgender Theory
To understand the history of transgender people, one must also understand how both transgendered people themselves, and non-transgendered people explained the presence of such apparent misfits in the otherwise neat binary sex/gender social fabric. One can understand how law, medicine, and society in general treated transgendered people only within the context in which the transgenderedContinue reading “Transgender Theory”
The Rights of Man, Woman and Transsexual
The authors are in the employment department at Bates Wells & Braithwaite. Copyright 2001 Times Newspapers Ltd. 30th January 2001 Employers are disturbingly ignorant of sex change issues, say . With 5,000 transsexuals in Britain, issues about gender reassignment are arising within the workplace with increasing regularity. Several employers have sought advice from us inContinue reading “The Rights of Man, Woman and Transsexual”
Dating for Male-To-Female Transsexuals
1. If you date men, you are always in potentially fatal danger. Be aware. 2. Make certain, before you even consider a date, that your partner is FULLY aware of your status and is not significantly bothered by it. Never date anyone who does not know about you. 3. Be aware that in our society,Continue reading “Dating for Male-To-Female Transsexuals”
Female to Male: Sex Reassignment Surgery
This is one of the more controversial aspects of the transgender (TG) experience. There are many transgender folk who choose not to have any surgery, some who pick and choose which surgeries they want, and some who feel they have no choice but to go through all of them. There are also the moral pressuresContinue reading “Female to Male: Sex Reassignment Surgery”
Female to Male Transgender: General Health Care
There are many reasons why FTMs will be reluctant to seek out medical attention or even preventative health care. Many older FTMs have assimilated even without hormones or surgery. Their greatest fear is discovery. Sometimes even their own partners and families don’t have a clue about their situation, and if they do, they are justContinue reading “Female to Male Transgender: General Health Care”