tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61031618178619882372024-02-20T04:04:27.599-08:00Transsexualism: A Congenital DisorderSagebrushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11210724540507720167noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6103161817861988237.post-3794506107484731112012-06-19T13:32:00.002-07:002012-06-19T16:22:52.688-07:00Addendum: No more addenda
This blog was started to try to counteract the nonsense about transsexualism that is all over the internet. It reaches very few people. Nonsense prevails, and it seems to be getting worse, not better. One obscure blog can't change that.
At least an individual can escape from it and simply live life as it was intended. Hopefully that's you, if that's what you want. Everyone deserves a decent Sagebrushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11210724540507720167noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6103161817861988237.post-15188594673170691672012-06-12T19:42:00.000-07:002012-06-12T19:45:18.068-07:00Addendum: Take your medicine
The web seems to have more and more stories from people who consider their being transsexual, or transgender, or that supremely nebulous term "trans," simply as a variant from normal, like being left handed. They embrace their difference. They celebrate their difference. And they generally let others know that they are different and feel fine about it.
If that's how people experience their Sagebrushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11210724540507720167noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6103161817861988237.post-83143532616935327712012-05-30T13:12:00.000-07:002012-05-31T16:25:44.904-07:00Addendum: The language of love
There are women. Women are adult female human beings. Most are born anatomically and neurologically female. A relative few are born neurologically female but anatomically male—a congenital disorder—and so must take corrective steps in order to be as fully female as possible in body as they are in their brain. Once they have done so, they are simply women.
There are also trans women. And even Sagebrushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11210724540507720167noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6103161817861988237.post-62759126674826448992012-04-24T12:52:00.000-07:002012-04-24T12:52:59.215-07:00Addendum: "Out" is third-sex
With increasing visibility of people born transsexual (as well as gender-variant people) in the media, people probably think they know who and what people born transsexual are. In fact, they don't. Or rather, they know only about those born transsexual who are willing to "out" themselves, to be public, and to discuss their lives.
People, we live among you, and you don't even know it.
One of Sagebrushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11210724540507720167noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6103161817861988237.post-75904689990707291762012-03-21T16:16:00.001-07:002012-03-21T16:18:15.361-07:00Addendum: Grasping at strawsAt this point, there is no definitive answer as to the cause of the congenital disorder called transsexualism. Even though there are only tiny differences between the brains of males and females, those differences are important, especially the one that tells us whether we are female or male. There is evidence that the brains of those born transsexual are more like those of the sex they say they Sagebrushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11210724540507720167noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6103161817861988237.post-86865730276310751222012-03-13T10:50:00.002-07:002012-06-20T14:19:34.737-07:00Addendum: pronounsSome people lament, or complain, that others won't use the pronoun of their choice to refer to them. They figure, what's the big deal? This is what I want, and it's no skin off your nose to comply with it. It's a matter of respect.There's one problem with this: pronouns are not normally something we choose.We go through much of life making snap judgments about the world around us. It's how we Sagebrushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11210724540507720167noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6103161817861988237.post-28905009428728406182012-02-16T17:35:00.000-08:002012-02-16T17:40:15.116-08:00Addendum: Trans-When is a prefix a word? When no one wants to say what the root is.On a dating profile, a person says that they are trans. What information have they conveyed? How is a potential date supposed to interpret this?The term transsexual is specific. To be born transsexual means to have a congenital defect in which the sex of the body and the sex of the brain (to oversimplify a bit) are out of sync. Sagebrushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11210724540507720167noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6103161817861988237.post-70792259989013294102012-02-07T08:10:00.000-08:002012-02-07T08:12:54.063-08:00Addendum: Coming out......is overrated. Highly overrated. At least for those born with transsexualism.If you were born transsexual but have not yet begun sex change, you probably want to tell very few if any people. If you tell people you are "transgender" or even "transsexual" but nothing about you is different, most people will just be confused. Keep in mind that how you "identify" is entirely inside you. Save that Sagebrushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11210724540507720167noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6103161817861988237.post-89818322801258814392012-01-23T08:01:00.000-08:002012-01-23T14:32:06.274-08:00Addendum: People don't get itIt's a rare non-transsexual person who can truly have empathy for someone who was born with transsexualism. It's probably easier to imagine having been born with just about any other congenital condition.One of the problems that the "out and proud" cause those who have dealt with their birth defect (or are in the process of doing so) is that people think they can speak freely about the condition.Sagebrushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11210724540507720167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6103161817861988237.post-33434230492179803592012-01-11T13:52:00.000-08:002012-01-11T18:32:56.346-08:00Addendum: Much adoI don't pay a lot of attention to the so-called trans blogosphere (although I do appreciate the traffic from T-Central). After your congenital disorder is fixed, most of that writing is no longer relevant, if indeed it ever was. Most post-corrected women just live their lives, growing and learning as anyone does. Continuing to dwell on the problem that was fixed is counterproductive. Once the Sagebrushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11210724540507720167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6103161817861988237.post-49131166320944869132011-12-30T08:50:00.000-08:002011-12-30T08:53:54.242-08:00In conclusionThis blog was always intended to be a "limited edition." It's not a transition blog. It's not even really a blog. The blog format provided an easy way to write and publish chunks of information. The date stamps don't mean much. The "table of contents" is arranged from oldest to newest. And if I kept going, I would simply be writing the same things I've already written. It's not really that big a Sagebrushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11210724540507720167noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6103161817861988237.post-44682756380411345272011-12-26T13:38:00.000-08:002011-12-26T13:41:10.456-08:00Gender dysphoriaWhat is this thing?Gender, despite efforts to conflate it with sex, means the presentation and behavior associated with one's sex. Society expects men to be masculine and women to be feminine, although what constitutes "masculine" and "feminine" varies from culture to culture. There is no hard and fast link between femaleness and femininity or between maleness and masculinity, but people can Sagebrushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11210724540507720167noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6103161817861988237.post-24167551475637573132011-12-22T16:56:00.000-08:002011-12-22T16:59:11.475-08:00PrideThere are gender-nonconforming, transsexual, and even post-transsexual people who talk about "transgender pride." They don't want to hide who they are. They want to show off their distinctiveness.For those who are publicly gender-nonconforming, that makes sense. If who you are is a challenge to societal norms, then you had probably better stand up for yourself and your right to be who you are. Sagebrushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11210724540507720167noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6103161817861988237.post-86614201310112004262011-12-18T08:42:00.000-08:002011-12-18T11:27:15.256-08:00The slippery slopePeople talk about sliding down the slippery slope until you hit the point of no return. Removal of bodily hair. Wearing certain clothes. Spending time in female-impersonation mode. Hearing someone call you "ma'am." You never know what might act as a "gateway drug."None of that has to do with changing one's sex in order to fix a birth defect.A sex change ought to be deliberate. The only sound Sagebrushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11210724540507720167noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6103161817861988237.post-24129914136676315222011-12-16T12:51:00.000-08:002011-12-16T17:02:31.186-08:00Speaking partThis post is not, strictly speaking (no pun intended), about transsexualism as a congenital disorder, but there needed to be a follow-up to the post called Resolution. For a woman born with transsexualism, there is one thing that makes being a woman not quite as easy as just being herself.When you change sex after puberty, what testosterone did to your vocal cords is not undone. Testosterone madeSagebrushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11210724540507720167noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6103161817861988237.post-53545770155712150512011-12-15T14:27:00.001-08:002011-12-15T14:39:35.230-08:00Two-edged swordIn a comment response to Unknown in the post What's in a Name, I wrote the following:I agree with you about male-bodied children who are more physically feminine. For one thing, there are many physically feminine men who are not transsexual. But a transsexual girl/woman with a feminine body is indeed fortunate.Someone left a comment that the writer subsequently deleted. I get comments in email, Sagebrushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11210724540507720167noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6103161817861988237.post-35835494038971335962011-12-15T12:12:00.000-08:002012-02-16T21:49:37.302-08:00ResolutionHere's how a woman born with the congenital disorder known as transsexualism goes about fixing the condition, not necessarily in this order:Undergo hormone replacement therapy (hopefully under medical supervision).Undergo non-surgical, non-hormonal procedures to mitigate the effects of testosterone, e.g., facial electrolysis.Undergo surgical correction of the genitals (and possibly other surgicalSagebrushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11210724540507720167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6103161817861988237.post-44495032606795006592011-12-13T19:02:00.000-08:002011-12-13T19:42:29.488-08:00What's in a name?Quite a lot, apparently.(In response to some question about appearance or a missing experience) "I was born with a birth defect that made people think I was a boy.""OMG, that's horrible! What was it?""Transsexualism.""Oh."A rose by any other name would certainly smell as sweet, but if it were called a turdblossom, would it be as popular? Clearly, Juliet did not work in marketing.Every marketer Sagebrushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11210724540507720167noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6103161817861988237.post-15389004267288533142011-12-11T21:54:00.000-08:002012-02-16T21:50:06.117-08:00The weight of waitingGod bless young transsexuals nowadays! More and more grow up knowing who and what they are. If their parents are enlightened, they change sex early enough in life so that they never have to go through the wrong puberty and the resulting irrevocable physical changes. If they have to wait until they leave home, they will then have gone through the wrong puberty, but at least they probably won't Sagebrushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11210724540507720167noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6103161817861988237.post-77237756755190975112011-12-09T16:04:00.000-08:002011-12-09T16:28:27.632-08:00NaysayersThe majority of people in the world are sex-normative. The sex of their brain matches their anatomical sex. They don't wonder which sex they are. They feel congruent.Among those people, many think that those who suffer from transsexualism do not have a congenital disorder or a medical disorder of any kind. Some think that transsexuals are psychologically disturbed. Others think transsexuals are Sagebrushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11210724540507720167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6103161817861988237.post-7817705928299247902011-12-08T07:01:00.000-08:002011-12-08T20:51:11.089-08:00Growing up transsexualI was brought up as a boy. That's what happens to girls born with transsexualism. Society conspires to lock you into your assigned sex. Once those words "it's a boy" are pronounced, then a boy you shall be. Your parents and others around you will expect you to behave the way they think a boy should behave. You will be segregated, to a greater or lesser extent, from girls. You'll be herded with Sagebrushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11210724540507720167noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6103161817861988237.post-63357827785013031502011-12-07T19:38:00.000-08:002011-12-08T07:05:28.902-08:00A congenital disorderCongenital disorder is the proper name for a birth defect. A congenital disorder is a condition existing at or before birth. Congenital disorders include physical anomalies and malformations.Transsexualism is a unique congenital disorder. It doesn’t show. There is, at this time, no test for it. The brain and body in themselves are perfectly healthy. There is no malformation. The only problem is Sagebrushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11210724540507720167noreply@blogger.com1