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Kenneth · Tzoner Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 453 Location: UK

Well, if you want to get technical...

I am not male. Nor am I female. I am a person.

By strangers I am sometimes called 'he' and I am sometimes called 'she' and I am happy either way, because what matters most is that I am a person. I am not a set of genitals or a pair of boobs.

I am a person.

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**kellineil** · Advisor Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 93 Location: Edinburgh

i picked genderqueer, but i use androgyne as much

gender fluid is a good word, as is gender variant. i use that one a lot to cover all sorts of non traditional gender identies

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Pauletta · Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 12:32 am Post subject:

Me,I'm not one nor the other,as a minority of one Rolling Eyes

, a crossdresser I feel I don't fit anywhere,I'm not a man,I'm not a woman,I'm not gay or transgendered,I'm just me! By the way Pauletta is back.

Claudia · Tzoner Joined: 09 Feb 2007 Posts: 227

la_glitch wrote:

i usually describe myself by using my first name. if you want to know my gender i'll call myself a woman. if you want to know a bit more about my gender and it's history i'll call myself a transsexual woman or, a little bit more casually, a transwoman. i have to admit, i *hate* the term MtF with a passion and everytime somebody uses it i cringe. i simply can't stand being reduced to an acronym. it feels so impersonal. on the other hand, i don't really have a great deal of bother with being called a transsexual woman, because i'm not somebody who thinks the two terms are mutually exclusive.

i'll also admit.... i get annoyed with other transsexual folk who, when speaking to them, continually ask me, 'oh, so-and-so is MtF / FtM then' and won't simply accept that i'm giving them *all* the information they need by saying 'so-and-so is a transwoman / transman'. plus, hello, even if you're transsexual i feel awkward outing people to you. it's not any of our business, tranniehood or no.

however, nowadays i do my best to not use gender to describe myself or other people at all.

Pretty much agree with all of this - I am just Claudia at the end of the day. I'd like to think of myself as a woman who was less fortunate than most by having the wrong reproductive organs, (which most people attribute to being a man or woman which is WRONG!!!) and from that, my psyche developed a male side more strongly than the vast majority of women due to my upbringing.

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william · Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 5:41 pm Post subject:

i don't identity with nor am i any of those words.

i fit pretty neatly into the 'male' box.

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BlackandPurple · Tzoner Joined: 05 Jun 2007 Posts: 870 Location: Australia

MtF TS I'm just lucky nobody cares as long as I'm very careful who I tell about it, but as far as I know I'm a girl and people see me that way without question.

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gadgetboy · Joined: 02 Oct 2007 Posts: 43

what will said, basically. when i think of myself i don't think of myself as a transsexual guy, i just think of myself as a guy.

Jenna W · Joined: 30 Aug 2007 Posts: 33

i am nothing

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BlackandPurple · Tzoner Joined: 05 Jun 2007 Posts: 870 Location: Australia

I am woman hear me roar! lol

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Nathan · Tzoner Joined: 19 May 2007 Posts: 810 Location: Brighton

severly intersexed male.

transsexual is misleading, it implies that you have to be moving across the sexes to be TS.

i hate the term "female to male" with a passion as i was never female and i will never be whether i stick a needle in my butt or not.

my primary sex characteristic (my brain!) cannot be changed.

...and i was born a boy.

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Skyler · Tzoner Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 934 Location: Canada

Isn't that the definition of transsexual though? Someone alterting their body so it is the other sex? I thought perhaps that was why or part of why "transgender" came into such wide use, so as to not exclude those who are no-ho/non-op.

Skyler · Tzoner Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 934 Location: Canada

And for the record I may use the word transsexual when having to deal with, say, doctors who have a need to know what my body's going through (or why they should write me a perscription for T LOL)
Or explaining to people who knew the "old me" (who wasn't truly me but you know)

But I do not think of "transsexual man" as some part of my identity.
I don't deny how people saw me (and some continue to see me)
But whatever my parents and others thought, they were incorrect, I was always a boy whether anyone else was aware of it or not.

I would say I'm a pretty ordinary man, just happened to have been born with a birth defect. Which at the moment results in a severe case of gynecomastia and odd genitalia. Once surgery takes care of that, my birth defect will be just a memory.

Claudia · Tzoner Joined: 09 Feb 2007 Posts: 227

Nathan wrote:

severly intersexed male.

transsexual is misleading, it implies that you have to be moving across the sexes to be TS.

i hate the term "female to male" with a passion as i was never female and i will never be whether i stick a needle in my butt or not.

my primary sex characteristic (my brain!) cannot be changed.

...and i was born a boy.

Exactly, so people who say "God made you such and such so you should stay that way" are misled - since to them genitals define gender, but in fact, using the logic of religion, god made you a male, just as he made me a female, but simply physically different to most.

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Kenneth · Tzoner Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 453 Location: UK

Jenna W wrote:

i am nothing

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Now not transitioning after re-discovering God.

http://www.myspace.com/124369317
Reality has a nasty habit of slapping you in the face when you least expect it.
Depression (n) - the state of seeing the world for what it really is.

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confused · Joined: 08 Oct 2007 Posts: 30 Location: Around The Way

I dont even know what half of those words mean lol :$

So for now ill say im slash in between, just need a few alterations and my looks will then match my mind Very Happy

so suppose then (FtM) although ftm doesnt even seem right as Im no F I only come across that way in certain areas so im Hmmm.

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