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The truth is: as Randi Ettner said, we transsexual people are so shamed, so misunderstood, and so stigmatized. It is usually because of people like Bailey. And also because of those male-to-female transsexuals who are autogynephilic. Usually they are men who are so homosexual that they are hyperfeminine. Usually they are attracted to men who are very strong and masculine. And there are many gay men who are very “straight acting.” Usually that man is NOT attracted to femininity…after all, he’s gay…he likes MEN, not women. So what happens is the first of the two types of autogynephilic male-to-female transsexual. A gay man, who in order to have a relationship or sexual fulfillment for a very masculine acting, strong man, will turn himself into a woman. A term many of us true transsexual people feel is derogatory, shemale, is what many of these AG male-to-female TS call themselves. The other type is similar to what Willow Arune describes…a male-to-female TS woman who usually turns out to be a lesbian trapped in a man’s body. Then there are those like me. I am 24 years old and have identified as female since I was 5. I began my transition at 22 and have no regrets about it. I never was a gay man, but a straight woman. NO…I am not attracted to myself as a straight woman. I am attracted to men as a straight woman. The theory of autogynephilia is very, very disregarded and not accepted by many of us, because, as Randi Ettner said, it makes us all seem like fetishists. I am simply a woman who has a birth defect…male genitalia…and I’m working to correct that.
Now let’s talk about something that really, REALLY gets on the nerves of us male-to-female transsexual women…of all types. Men who we call “tranny chasers.”
Now, let’s talk about what goes on in the mind of that person who is going thru the sex change for sexual reasons. What most people do not know is that person usually only takes hormones, usually high doses of estrogens, and Spironolactone (a testosterone suppressor) long enough to get a female shape. Once they stop taking it, their sex drive begins to “remasculinize” itself, meaning, like most men, they get aroused the moment they see something that is sexy to them. Therefore sex is the drive for them. However, for those of us who take the hormones on a regular basis, or who strongly identify as female, our sex drive is more feminized, as the suppressed testosterone results in a decreased libido, or at least the libido is feminized.
