I believe that a part of the forum dedicated to gender queer/fluid is truly missing.
In this day and age everyone calls themselves transsexual because it provides an otherwise currently unavailable legitimacy. If more effort and creativity was expended on describing the phenomena of gender variance and gender queer/fluid, people would recognize that transsexualism is an extremely rare condition because it involves a gender/sex conflict which occurs rarely. Because of the legitimacy issue too many believe that in order to create a believable and credible narrative they must desire hormones and even SRS and then often excuse themselves from it for all sorts of reasons, such as medical and financial etc. to avoid the consequences of something they really do not want or need. We have been over this. The result is regretters, people that should never have had surgery and remain men in surgically altered bodies thinking of de-transitioning or ending up lonely social pariahs.
If instead people were to embrace who they really are, constructed narratives would vanish immediately. I can predict the evolution of practically every newbie in terms of narrative evolution and voila in the end everyone claims to be transsexual when in fact they are not. It is almost laughable. There are unequivocal tell tales. Rarely are they encountered here.
