Roach
07/06/08, 06:37 PM
I read the thread in the General forum about Thomas Beatie, the "pregnant man" and I noticed that many users here on AP don't seem to know whats up when it comes to transgenderism, transsexuality, the difference between gender and sex, and other topics like that. I was annoyed greatly, but you'll have that...I usually just shrug and think hey, who cares if not everyone knows what the fuck a tranny is and are accepting, because that will never happen.
I am a female-to-male transsexual. I inject testosterone bi-weekly, which is prescribed by a doctor, and I have had a double-mastectomy (removal of breasts) and the surgeon also performed chest masculinization to help it look like a normal male chest. No, I have not had any genital surgery yet, but I do plan to in the future. There are mainly two options for FtM sexual assignment surgery, which is the metoidioplasty (release of the clitoris, lengthening the urethra to stand while urinating, and often a scrotoplasty is performed, essentially, when the surgery is completed, it will look like a tiny penis and balls.) and the phalloplasty (which is the creation of a full sized neo-phallus (penis) from skin taken usually from the forearm and/or stomach, and a scrotoplasty will normally be performed as well.)
I was born anatomically female. But I have always known myself as a male. I think the earliest I can remember knowing that this was how I felt was 3 years old. It's hard to explain to someone outside the experience how I just "knew" that I was really male, but I know in reality its true. I was very depressed, secretly, as a child, always wondering why the fuck I was born female. I didn't feel that way at all. I wished every night that I would wake up as a normal boy and then everything would be okay. I hated that everyone knew me as a female. It made me sick, but I didn't think there was anything I could do about it. And later on, I watched a show on Oprah with young kids who had started living as the opposite gender, and thats when I found out that what I felt was real and that I wasn't alone. There was a name for it and everything. I could actually live as the male I felt I had always been.
Now I'm 18 and my family and friends know, and fortunately for me, they have all become very accepting. I'm very lucky to have this, because I know a lot of LGBT kids sometimes get very horrible reactions from the ones they love. I feel good and hopeful about life. I know that if I was forced to live as female I would have to kill myself. But now I am who I am and I really do make it a purpose of mine to educate people about the truth of my condition, and moreso, the truth about something a lot of us fail to question, what really does make one male or female?
Feel free to ask me any questions you have, thats why I posted.
I'd also like to add that I created this account just for this post. I actually am a regular user on these forums, but I felt that posting under my normal account would cause insults towards me, and hell, maybe there would be assholes that would refuse to treat me as male if they knew the truth about the way I was born. But I know a lot of you are open minded and accepting...thats the way I would hope it would be on a punk rock forum.
I am a female-to-male transsexual. I inject testosterone bi-weekly, which is prescribed by a doctor, and I have had a double-mastectomy (removal of breasts) and the surgeon also performed chest masculinization to help it look like a normal male chest. No, I have not had any genital surgery yet, but I do plan to in the future. There are mainly two options for FtM sexual assignment surgery, which is the metoidioplasty (release of the clitoris, lengthening the urethra to stand while urinating, and often a scrotoplasty is performed, essentially, when the surgery is completed, it will look like a tiny penis and balls.) and the phalloplasty (which is the creation of a full sized neo-phallus (penis) from skin taken usually from the forearm and/or stomach, and a scrotoplasty will normally be performed as well.)
I was born anatomically female. But I have always known myself as a male. I think the earliest I can remember knowing that this was how I felt was 3 years old. It's hard to explain to someone outside the experience how I just "knew" that I was really male, but I know in reality its true. I was very depressed, secretly, as a child, always wondering why the fuck I was born female. I didn't feel that way at all. I wished every night that I would wake up as a normal boy and then everything would be okay. I hated that everyone knew me as a female. It made me sick, but I didn't think there was anything I could do about it. And later on, I watched a show on Oprah with young kids who had started living as the opposite gender, and thats when I found out that what I felt was real and that I wasn't alone. There was a name for it and everything. I could actually live as the male I felt I had always been.
Now I'm 18 and my family and friends know, and fortunately for me, they have all become very accepting. I'm very lucky to have this, because I know a lot of LGBT kids sometimes get very horrible reactions from the ones they love. I feel good and hopeful about life. I know that if I was forced to live as female I would have to kill myself. But now I am who I am and I really do make it a purpose of mine to educate people about the truth of my condition, and moreso, the truth about something a lot of us fail to question, what really does make one male or female?
Feel free to ask me any questions you have, thats why I posted.
I'd also like to add that I created this account just for this post. I actually am a regular user on these forums, but I felt that posting under my normal account would cause insults towards me, and hell, maybe there would be assholes that would refuse to treat me as male if they knew the truth about the way I was born. But I know a lot of you are open minded and accepting...thats the way I would hope it would be on a punk rock forum.