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Originally posted by Chemical Smoo
Nope... Lies all Lies, and um I think that would make me a Metro, and that I am not.
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You're not heterosexual? It sounds like you have a misunderstanding of the term. Metrosexual typically describes effeminate heterosexual males. Urbandictionary.com concurs with me.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/defin...etrosexual&f=1
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Originally posted by Bloodslick
I don't understand the lot of you.
If a person has a sex change operation, it's because they feel that they are, mentally and emotionally, SO much closer to the other sex that they go through an operation they know to be not fully functional and somewhat "deforming", after a great deal of counselling.
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It's not just that they believe they should be the opposite sex, being the "wrong" gender causes them to hate who they are, depression, and anxiety.
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Originally posted by Cervantes
Bloodslick,
I can understand you viewpoint and symphatize with it to a certain extent. It is just that I can't get over the fact that "she" is not a woman in "her" chromosomes. One of the fundamental pieces needed is missing. (does it show that genetics is a very big part of my life  )
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From their point of view, everything in their bodies (hormones, genetics, etc.) tell them they should be the opposite sex. So, they would probably believe that their chromosomes should have been "she"(or "he) and that the operation helps them to achieve that.
From my Abnormal Psychology textbook, "
Gender Identity Disorder is diagnosed when individuals believe that they were born with the wrong sex's genitals and are fundamentally persons of the opposite sex..." To them, they are matching their reproductive organs to what everything else in their bodies tell them they are. Also from my textbook is a story about a doctor who underwent reassignment surgery. "All of my life I harbored the strongest conviction that I was inappropriately assigned to the wrong gender--that of a man--when inside I knew myself to be a woman."
So, while I understand that you feel a reassigned person is not truly that gender, you have to understand that they feel they are the gender they were supposed to be as much as they can possibly be given their circumstances.
Honestly, I think the answer to this question is directly related to "Is beauty only skin deep?" If you answer yes, it basically means that what's on the outside really does matter. If you answer no, your feelings for that person transcend physical appearance. There's no doubt in my mind that people who answered yes think it isn't the same question and that reassigned genders are completely different story. I disagree; let's leave it at that. Maybe it's obvious by now, but my answer is that it doesn't matter if the person had reassignment ("corrective") surgery. I was disappointed to see the response was overwhelmingly yes.