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Originally Posted by cellophanedeity
There's a difference between gender issues and sex issues.
Gender isn't about who you sleep with, which kinks and fetishes you have, or even what clothes you wear. Sexuality isn't about whether you are male or female.
The thing about gender is that it is not something that you can conceal without hurting yourself. Changing your physical appearance through medical procedures isn't about comfort, as you suggest, it's about psychological wellbeing.
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Darn it. You came here and said what I wanted to say, but better and using less words and stuff. Well done.
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I sincerely doubt that the procedures one goes through to change their appearance are "comfortable."
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Here's one example. Take a fine tipped sewing pin, and heat up up, stick it into your face and hold it there while you run heat and electricity through it for between seven and twenty seconds. Sounds' like it would hurt, doesn't it? Now have this done some 20-50,000 times over a period of one to three years. Electrolysis to remove the beard is one of the most painful and expensive parts of the process.
Take it a bit further, and have this done on the shaft of the penis, around the base of the penis to clear about an inch of space, and a strip half an inch wide going down the center of the scrotum to the perenium. Doesn't take nearly as long, but it turns the pain factor way, way up.
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People are brought up being told things like "This is what boys wear" or "this is what a female looks like" and when you know you're not in the right category, you want to become what you know you should be.
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Exactly.
Gilda