I had a conversation with someone who identified as a trans woman. I asked what made him "feel" like a woman and he said he likes to feel sexy in women's clothing. That was it. He didn't live as a woman, he just dressed up. Has never taken hormones and has no interest in surgery. So basically, he's just a cross dresser. No judgement from…
I had a conversation with someone who identified as a trans woman. I asked what made him "feel" like a woman and he said he likes to feel sexy in women's clothing. That was it. He didn't live as a woman, he just dressed up. Has never taken hormones and has no interest in surgery. So basically, he's just a cross dresser. No judgement from me, btw. It's just interesting to me that a) the "trans" concept has become overly broad, and b) this indicates a regression to stereotypes about clothing, and I wonder how far it goes.
"I asked what made him "feel" like a woman and he said he likes to feel sexy in women's clothing"
Yep exactly. Also known as autogynephilia or, perhaps, transvestitism. These fetishes have existed, probably, for millennia.
I also make no judgement on a man who gets his kicks from dressing up in women's clothing. I, and every sane person left on earth, take issue with the idea that this actually *makes* him a woman, grants him any rights to access female spaces, or that everybody should have to sit quietly by as he indulges his sexual fetish in public.
I think he eventually conceded that he's not a woman, or even really trans. He had just bought into this idea that putting on women's clothes made him a woman.
I had a conversation with someone who identified as a trans woman. I asked what made him "feel" like a woman and he said he likes to feel sexy in women's clothing. That was it. He didn't live as a woman, he just dressed up. Has never taken hormones and has no interest in surgery. So basically, he's just a cross dresser. No judgement from me, btw. It's just interesting to me that a) the "trans" concept has become overly broad, and b) this indicates a regression to stereotypes about clothing, and I wonder how far it goes.
"I asked what made him "feel" like a woman and he said he likes to feel sexy in women's clothing"
Yep exactly. Also known as autogynephilia or, perhaps, transvestitism. These fetishes have existed, probably, for millennia.
I also make no judgement on a man who gets his kicks from dressing up in women's clothing. I, and every sane person left on earth, take issue with the idea that this actually *makes* him a woman, grants him any rights to access female spaces, or that everybody should have to sit quietly by as he indulges his sexual fetish in public.
I think he eventually conceded that he's not a woman, or even really trans. He had just bought into this idea that putting on women's clothes made him a woman.
Transvestitism is a paraphilia, not a dysphoria.