Kit
Kit
Jul 30, 2017 · 1 min read

I think you’re operating from some misconceptions here. Neither cross-dressers nor transsexuals are offensive to the other group. (Generally speaking of course, there are always outliers!) The majority of members of both groups will agree that behavior can be decoupled from phenotype and neither are insisting that the plumbing must match the stereotypical behavior.

Transsexuals do not make (or desire to make) changes to their physical body in some misguided attempt to match their body to whatever stereotypical gender behaviors they may or may have. Indeed, if this were the case, there would be no such thing as a masculine/butch trans woman or an effeminate trans man — and I can assure you there are plenty of both! Rather, transsexuals’ desire to change their bodies arises from a mismatch between the characteristics of the body map in their brain and the characteristics of their actual body. It has literally nothing to do with behavior or stereotypes or any other socially constructed aspect of gender. It is purely a matter of the brain developing expecting the body to be one way and the body developing in a different way.

If such a thing were possible, some transsexuals would probably prefer to fix this incongruity by changing the expectations of their brain to match the body they have actually developed, whether or not this would have any effect on their behaviors! However, medical science does not currently have anyway of doing this. Hence, we currently treat transsexuals by changing the body to match the brain as best as we are able.

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