Transgender Porn Actors

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I was wondering- I've looked for info- if anyone knows what antiandrogen/hormone type regimes professional porn transgenders, a.k.a. Shemale/Transsexual actors take and if you know where there is good information on that subject.

I know that surgeries such as facial feminization and breast augmentation are common, but they seem to 'ride the fence', so to speak, in not going as far as being a typical mtf transsexual who would be seeking out gender reassignment.

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I was wondering- I've looked for info- if anyone knows what antiandrogen/hormone type regimes professional porn transgenders, a.k.a. Shemale/Transsexual actors take and if you know where there is good information on that subject.

I know that surgeries such as facial feminization and breast augmentation are common, but they seem to 'ride the fence', so to speak, in not going as far as being a typical mtf transsexual who would be seeking out gender reassignment.

See this thread: http://www.eunuch.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=18681

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Forgot that I did ask that very question a while ago.

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in not going as far as being a typical mtf transsexual who would be seeking out

sexual reassignment.

There, sentence fixed.

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This goes more with my post "Title" than my repeated post "blurb."

I have noticed that there does seem to be an increase in mtf transgender porn actors. Firstly, I have read in a scientific paper that there has been, in recent years, a large increase in Males either wanting to become women, or, at the very least, with issues that they could be considered to have some level of Gender Identity Disorder. -- And yes, some go to porn as a way to make money for a transition.

Does anyone have or would like to suggest reasons or theories why there seems to be a greater number of males essentially wanting to become female?

At the same time, there has been an increase in female to male transsexuals, but not nearly the level of current MTF.

Myself, I wonder if one, it's just that attitudes are changing and people that would have kept it hidden until their forties or never really come out are indeed going for it. Also, one might think that with decreasing male fertility rates, sperm counts going down alarmingly in the past 50 years that there is more at play that just a decrease in sperm count.

Then there'll be people who say it's environmental toxins like plastics and hormones that go into cattle and end up in our beef and milk.

So, this makes it more interesting. My curiosity is what people here think about it all and what their ideas are.

Thanks.

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This goes more with my post "Title" than my repeated post "blurb."

I have noticed that there does seem to be an increase in mtf transgender porn actors. Firstly, I have read in a scientific paper that there has been, in recent years, a large increase in Males either wanting to become women, or, at the very least, with issues that they could be considered to have some level of Gender Identity Disorder. -- And yes, some go to porn as a way to make money for a transition.

Does anyone have or would like to suggest reasons or theories why there seems to be a greater number of males essentially wanting to become female?

At the same time, there has been an increase in female to male transsexuals, but not nearly the level of current MTF.

Myself, I wonder if one, it's just that attitudes are changing and people that would have kept it hidden until their forties or never really come out are indeed going for it. Also, one might think that with decreasing male fertility rates, sperm counts going down alarmingly in the past 50 years that there is more at play that just a decrease in sperm count.

Then there'll be people who say it's environmental toxins like plastics and hormones that go into cattle and end up in our beef and milk.

So, this makes it more interesting. My curiosity is what people here think about it all and what their ideas are.

Thanks.

I'd wager the internet support aspect is a player in that. Perhaps?

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I have noticed that there does seem to be an increase in mtf transgender porn actors. Firstly, I have read in a scientific paper that there has been, in recent years, a large increase in Males either wanting to become women, or, at the very least, with issues that they could be considered to have some level of Gender Identity Disorder. -- And yes, some go to porn as a way to make money for a transition.

Does anyone have or would like to suggest reasons or theories why there seems to be a greater number of males essentially wanting to become female?

At the same time, there has been an increase in female to male transsexuals, but not nearly the level of current MTF.

Myself, I wonder if one, it's just that attitudes are changing and people that would have kept it hidden until their forties or never really come out are indeed going for it. Also, one might think that with decreasing male fertility rates, sperm counts going down alarmingly in the past 50 years that there is more at play that just a decrease in sperm count.

Then there'll be people who say it's environmental toxins like plastics and hormones that go into cattle and end up in our beef and milk.

So, this makes it more interesting. My curiosity is what people here think about it all and what their ideas are.

Thanks.

The increasing number of trans porn actors is pretty much the result of the increasing demand for shemale porn. Even ten years ago, trans porn was a small niche market. Today it's mainstream and watched by millions. More demand, increased production. Classic capitalism supply and demand. Witness the constant stream of celebrities caught with tranny hookers. Kelly Osbourne's fiancée was just the latest to be caught with a tranny. And, though making money for transition is always listed as the reason for porn or escorting, if you are semi-young enough and semi-pretty enough getting paid to have sex as a woman is a huge validation of your womanhood. Most escorts and porn actresses I have met, and I've met a lot, will admit that money isn't the only reason.

It's amusing that the increased mainstream acceptance of transsexuals and the protection from discrimination we are beginning to enjoy, probably has less to do with all the lobbying and political maneuvering we engage in, and more to do with all the straight boys jacking off to shemale porn on the Internet.

The politics on this subject is interesting. To their fans, the performers are "chicks with a dick." That is, they are women with "something extra," but definitely perceived as women. But to a large percentage of the "trans lobby" they are not real women. They are "men in dresses," "transvestites," "full time cross-dressers." Definitely male. Often the "trans lobby," other than wanting an exception for themselves because of their "birth defect," sound an awfully lot like the "Focus on the Family" folk. We spend a lot of our energy fighting ourselves.

On the number of people with gender issues in general, I think it is much too early to do more than speculate. We have had no hijras or "two-spirits" in our culture. We have no baseline to compare the percentage of gender variants. More are coming out, but that is as the repression eases. The numbers may be the same, only the denial has eased. We just have no way of knowing.

The question of M2F vs F2M transsexuals is interesting. Note that before the advent of hormones and SRS surgery, it was effectively inpossible to perceive the differences between full time gay drag queens and transsexuals. You were just someone who was born with male bits who wanted to live and function as a woman. It was with the arrival of effective surgical and hormonal treatments that we could see that they were different. And only within the last twenty five years or so has surgery been a realistic option for more than a tiny number. For F2M's, though there still is no satisfactory SRS. As surgeons say, its easier to make a hole than a pole. So it is difficult to tell F2M transsexuals from stone butch dykes. But more and more are seeking testosterone therapy and giving up their breasts. In the last five years the number of F2Ms is approaching that of M2Fs. On a side note, there is another thread going here about "mangina" men. If that is something that resonates with you, there are a lot of lonely gay F2M men looking like your fantasies who would love to meet nice horny gays.

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That is a very good and interesting take on it all. True, the market and $$$ speak volumes. It's sad, in a way, that acceptance of trans people might come from media exposure, but not to the heart of it, but more the superficial, glossy pimped up image that Internet porn and Hollywood has spun on it. - You don't see the 'people', you see the product.

"Mangina men?" What is this? I've never heard of that but it sounds like an interesting subject.

I enjoyed your quote: "...it's easier to make a hole than a pole." And it really is true. FTM don't have the post op functionality that many MTF enjoy.

Pharmacology and Science, and somewhere there is the Humanity.

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"Mangina men?" What is this? I've never heard of that but it sounds like an interesting subject. .

See:

http://www.eunuch.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=1

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to make a hole than a pole." And it really is true. FTM don't have the post op functionality that many MTF enjoy.

Quote is verbatim from a couple of well known SRS surgeons.

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