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Originally Posted by la petite moi
I have heard that the brain is actually formed differently than a males at birth. If a "female" is female genetalia-wise, but her brain is formed like a males, then "she" might actually have that urge to BECOME male. I don't have a source to back that up, but I remember hearing about it.
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This is pretty close to what the current science seems to indicate. There are male brains and female brains, and MTFs have brains, specifically a BSTc (an area of the hypothalamus) that are like women's brains.
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Edit: I have just one question, actually, specific to this case: How did your sister tell your parents? And were they supportive?
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I asked Sissy the first part during the brief time she was awake earlier. Her answer: "I told them every damn time the subject ever came up in my entire life. You know that!" She told them for the first time when she was three, I think, when mom was trying to teach her how boys and girls are different, and once she understood the difference, she kept insisting that she was a girl, or should be a girl, or wanted to be a girl. The only concession she made growing up was to say that she was a boy, but wanted to be a girl (even though she believed, even in childhood, that she was a girl who somehow had the wrong parts). She was so feminine as a child that she left a residue of femininity behind when she left the room that people could sense for days afterwards. This upset my parents, so eventually they just stopped listening. The tried to force her to be a boy, but it never worked, and she "rebelled" by continuing to be feminine despite the army soldiers and race cars and rockets they gave her to play with; she was always more interested in playing dolls or tea party with Katie (my twin sister) and me than any typically boy activities. If you told her girls do X, but boys do Y, she wanted to do X; and my parents did plenty of instruction in how boys and girls are supposed to behave, with the result of teaching her how to act like a stereotypical female. It came to a head when she was 14 and started being strongly attracted to boys. She ran away to come to be with me, I sued for custody, a suit I would have lost, but I had to try anyway, and after a very brief and nasty court fight, during which I was given interim custody pending the outcome, they decided they didn't want her anymore. It was better to have no child than a "perverted freak", their way of describing Sissy and me for being gay. They still think of Sissy as a gay man and not a straight woman. We've essentially been disowned.
Let me put it this way. My father's brother is a covicted child molester who will serve the rest of his life in jail, and my father visits him in prison once a month, but hasn't talked to me or Sissy in four years.