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Photo Kamaji Ogino<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n These are the most common questions that I have come across, the list is far from exhaustive. So if you want to meet a <\/span>transgender woman<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a> , find out a little about her world to approach her without hurting her. Respect is an essential thing in all relationships. And if you have any doubts, you can always ask me!<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Here we go.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n This is another error stemming from the confusion between gender identity and gender expression, and also the belief that a trans woman makes her decision because she doesn\u2019t feel comfortable. comfortable with a male gender role rather than a male body.<\/span><\/p>\n The argument goes like this: if we broke the socially arbitrated binary and \u201cgender straitjacket,\u201d we would not feel conflict between ourselves and our assigned gender.<\/span><\/p>\n But, again, we don\u2019t transition because we\u2019re uncomfortable with the male role. Transition is the result of discomfort in a male body.<\/span><\/p>\n As open, enlightened and non-sexist as our society may be, most women would immediately feel alienated and bothered by having a penis, a pair of testosterone-producing testicles, a hairy face and body with a hairy distribution. masculine muscles and fat, a flat chest, that sour smell of men\u2019s locker rooms, oily skin, etc. And most men would feel directly frightened and dismayed to have a vagina, monthly periods, breasts, smooth skin, no beard, feminine shapes, wide hips, estrogen and progesterone cycle going up and down, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n Transsexuality is first and foremost about us, our bodies, and our right to be happy in that body, not about any social conventions or gender politics or what you think society should be or what you think is best for us. People whose gender identity conflicts with their physiological sex will continue to exist, regardless of how we adapt to variations in gender expression. Solving society\u2019s gender problems will not solve all of society\u2019s gender problems.<\/span><\/p>\n Please take it as a reasonable assumption that we think about it, that our decisions are our own.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n No. It\u2019s a great idea, really, and thank you. It\u2019s an extremely tempting idea, too, and hard to give up. It would be fantastic to believe that this is a wonderfully <\/span>courageous, fearless and strong<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a> woman who overcame unimaginable obstacles to assert herself without engaging in a hostile and intolerable world. But this is not true. She is in pain and afraid, and if she could have avoided all this, she would have done so.<\/span><\/p>\n Some of the trans people are brave. Some trans people are strong. But this is not always the case and cannot be inferred from the transition.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Appropriation is the co-opting of someone else\u2019s identity. That is not the case here. They express their own identity. It is not about trying to imitate or express themselves as the Other, they are trying to express the Self more accurately and honestly. They are not transitioning to become a new or different person. They become more themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Photo Polina Tankilevitch<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n This myth is often based on the analogy with cosmetic surgery and eating disorders.<\/span><\/p>\n After all, we teach people to do their best to accept their bodies and not treat themselves with disgust. We correctly teach people that self-acceptance is of great importance to their mental and emotional well-being. The appropriate response to body image issues is therapy and building self-acceptance, not facilitating an obsession with cosmetic surgery or encouraging an eating disorder.<\/span><\/p>\n But gender dysphoria isn\u2019t as simple as a \u00ab\u00a0body image issue,\u00a0\u00bb and it has been proven not to respond to therapy and psychotropic medications. There are certain reasonable expectations that a person can have for their body, and there are certain conflicts between the body schema or self-image and the physical configuration of the body that merit treatment through medical means.<\/span><\/p>\n If you are cisgender, ask yourself this: If your genitals were missing or disfigured in an accident, would you want to be blamed for wanting prosthetics or cosmetic surgery? Having a body that aligns with one\u2019s internal conception of sex and gender is a perfectly reasonable thing to want and a very difficult thing to live without.<\/span><\/p>\n Additionally, these types of procedures and gender transition have defined and specific end points and goals. Eating disorders and cosmetic surgery do not. When a person suffers from a serious psychological body image disorder, they will likely never feel beautiful or thin enough. They will remain unhappy, and physical changes will not solve the underlying problem. In the case of gender transition and cosmetic procedures for burns and deformities, there is an end point and the procedures consistently produce great psychological and emotional benefit with significant improvements in patient well-being.<\/span><\/p>\n Most medical procedures are not simply intended to sustain life. They aim to maintain well-being and improve quality of life. This is what transition offers\u2026a quality of life that an individual can reasonably hope for. No other procedure or treatment has ever been shown to be as effective or helpful in treating the extreme damage to mental health caused by gender identity disorder.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n There is no particularly good reason to favor the genetic definition of sex over all other physical aspects of sex: hormones, secondary sexual characteristics, genital configuration, etc. Chromosomes don\u2019t really play as important a role in sex differentiation in humans as we often think. The Y chromosome is pretty much a scrap of broken down DNA whose only real function is to turn gonads into testes. In an XX cell, one of the X chromosomes is deactivated. As such, there is no real functional difference between a \u00ab\u00a0female\u00a0\u00bb cell and a \u00ab\u00a0male\u00a0\u00bb cell. The process of sexual differentiation in humans is not genetic in nature, but hormonal.<\/span><\/p>\n As for the question of being \u00ab\u00a0cosmetically\u00a0\u00bb feminine\u2026 A trans woman\u2019s secondary sexual characteristics are not substantially different from those of a <\/span>cis woman<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a> and are formed by the same physical processes. If my breasts are to be considered \u00ab\u00a0cosmetic\u00a0\u00bb, the same goes for any woman\u2019s breasts.<\/span><\/p>\n There is no single variable that can determine whether someone is \u201creally\u201d a woman or not. Doing this for any individual trait will necessarily require excluding some cis women from the category. There are traits that no transgender woman possesses, but there will always be cis women who don\u2019t possess those traits either. As such, there is no definitive way to suggest that transgender women are outside the \u00ab\u00a0woman\u00a0\u00bb category, but that all cis women would be. At least not without falling into tautologies like \u201conly cis women are real women because trans women are not really women\u201d. To the extent that the term \u201cwoman\u201d should be meaningful and consistent, transgender women should be included.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n6. If our culture didn\u2019t have such strict gender roles <\/span><\/b>, <\/span><\/b>there would be no need for transition<\/span><\/b><\/h2>\n
7. You are <\/span><\/b>so <\/b><\/span>\u00a0brave <\/span><\/b>!<\/b><\/span><\/b><\/b><\/h2>\n
8. You appropriate the woman\u2019s body<\/span><\/b><\/h2>\n
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9. Why can\u2019t you accept yourself as you are? Why couldn\u2019t you learn <\/span><\/b>to <\/span><\/b>be <\/b><\/span>comfortable <\/span><\/b>with <\/b>yourself <\/b>?<\/b><\/span><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/b><\/h2>\n
10. You don\u2019t really become a woman. The process is only <\/span><\/b>cosmetic <\/span><\/b>. You\u2019re <\/span><\/b>\u00a0still technically a man<\/span><\/b><\/h2>\n
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