You're missing the question. "He's a trans woman" is grammatically nonsensical, as the terms are used within the trans community. (And surgery isn't the point at all.)
See, in my fantasy, when I'm kissing you... you're kissing me. It's okay. I can wait.
Oz ,'First Date'
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amych - Jun 26, 2009 10:58:25 am PDT #2635 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
P.M. Marc - Jun 26, 2009 11:00:07 am PDT #2636 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Lots of transpersons never have surgery and yet live as their chosen gender. That doesn't make their gender identity fluid. There are lots and lots of reasons that transpeople don't have surgery -- money, the fact that it's not All That, the fact that they don't want to -- but it doesn't make them NOT their chosen gender.
Most trans men don't have bottom surgery, f'r ex.
Polter-Cow - Jun 26, 2009 11:00:25 am PDT #2637 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Bio man who dresses and identifies female. Charlie hasn't had surgical reassignment, nor do I know if she wants to.
Huh. I thought she had boobs. Maybe I imagined them. My mistake.
Steph L. - Jun 26, 2009 11:02:50 am PDT #2638 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Bio man who dresses and identifies female. Charlie hasn't had surgical reassignment, nor do I know if she wants to.
Huh. I thought she had boobs. Maybe I imagined them. My mistake.
"Reassignment" is generally the bottom half. Lots of trans women get boob implants but don't have genital reassignment. For one thing, boob implants are commonplace and therefore "easy." Genital reassignment -- NSM with the "easy." And very, very expensive.
Polter-Cow - Jun 26, 2009 11:04:06 am PDT #2639 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Ah, okay. Thanks.
Steph L. - Jun 26, 2009 11:06:48 am PDT #2640 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
We have a good friend (a trans woman) who is having surgery in Thailand later this year, and she has to be in the hospital for 2 months. I can't even imagine it. (But then, obviously, the fact that I can't imagine it is because I'm cisgender to the core.)
Anyway, she has boob implants, and has for a while. The biggie comes later. And good god damn, it is expensive.
Polter-Cow - Jun 26, 2009 11:10:23 am PDT #2641 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
(But then, obviously, the fact that I can't imagine it is because I'm cisgender to the core.)
Yeah, me too. I find it hard to wrap my head around it all.
Connie Neil - Jun 26, 2009 11:11:40 am PDT #2642 of 30000
brillig
What is cisgender? Zero on the Kinsey scale? I have no trouble with being a woman physically, but I sometimes wonder if my brain is more male than female.
Aims - Jun 26, 2009 11:12:52 am PDT #2643 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
If i understandit right, cisgender means you don't feel that you are not the gender you were born as.
amych - Jun 26, 2009 11:13:45 am PDT #2644 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
cis= gender identity matches biological sex.