Most? Based on what? My empirical evidence growing up viewing friends and family was most boys i knew had a positive male role model in their lives. My father certainly was. very much alpha male, loved and cared for us, payed attention to us, etc.
yeah, going with Kate on this one. Based on what?The boy must separate from the mother and create his own identity when there are little avenues to do this.
Emotionally sensitive boys are often isolated or isolate themselves by avoiding the more ruff and tumble boys.
There is also a strong correlation between sexual attraction to men and MtF transitioners which begs the question is it sexual attraction for men that creates the desire to transition?
I haven't been around too many ts or tg peeps that i know of, but i don't know why i would concern myself with their motivations regarding their gender activities?
The more you immerse yourself into the world of transgenders/transsexuals the more you see patterns emerge that leaves a rational person concerned about the truth behind their actions as to their motives.
Most do very little questioning and I suspect it is because they wish to avoid what I put myself through by the intensive questioning I pursued.
I was emotionally sensitive and an outcast and considered a wimp, not a pretty boy. i don't think these attributes caused me to identify as tg; i think i was born tg and these attributes are in part due to my brain being wired that way.I was the classic emotionally sensitive pretty boy with big blue eyes and very feminine features. How much of how I looked combined with this high emotional sensitivity contributed to my adoption of a female gender identity in childhood? I see my history in others constantly and it made me very fearful of the reasons for this identity.
forces other than gender identity issues that cause people to transition? I'm not doubting your hypothesis, but i'm curious as to what you think those forces are? It's hard for me to imagine anyone choosing to transition genders for any reason other than strong gender dysphoria. I would give a lot to be cis gendered, and to never ever think about any trans related ever again.I believe it is anyone's right to identify as transgender or to transition but I do not want to be responsible for being a cheer leader because knowing what I do that would be morally criminal. There are so many forces at work other than gender identity that cannot be refuted or denied if you are honest on the subject.
I'm curious as to the nurture side of it. I can't think of ANY external force in my childhood that caused me to be this way. i can recall being gender variant around 5.I repressed my gender identity and made myself sick. I did not create my gender identity because I was sick or for any other reason. It was always there. Anyone who transitions without being able to say this with 100% conviction is taking a serious risk IMO but even with it always being there and this identity asserting itself constantly I have no illusions that it was created more by circumstances after birth than circumstances before birth.
It was and is both nature and nurture.
Really? I can't think of a adult single male i know that i would even remotely consider having a fragile gender identity. Even me. Ignoring the denial and looking back, i've known since adolescence.Because of what men are as to their gender identity and how fragile this identity already is because they were born men I would strongly encourage any man confronted by "Gender Dysphoria" to be extremely cautious and unforgiving in his exploration of the self.
amen.Protect yourself and do the hard painful work to be absolutely sure. This is especially true for those considering this late in life because it is very unlikely you will pass and often this results in imposed isolation at a time when a person can ill afford it.
I pass 100% this I have no doubt but I also have no doubt that the years living as a male left there mark on me and other women experience me as "different from them" Many assume I'm a lesbian even though I have zero interest in women sexually. I have a hint of masculine energy in small ways like my sense of humor and my logical yet emotional way of thinking.
Living as a male shaped me in ways that are so much a part of me that I do not see it but others do even if it is only on a feeling subconscious level
Now imagine someone in their forties/fifties or older transitioning. This is fine if you are sure you can live with others accepting you has a woman because that is how you identify and they accept this but experiencing you as a man.
Be ruthlessly realistic if you walk down this path or you are setting yourself up for serious heartache.
And than there are the health risks of hormones that you take for the rest of your life.