bunnimon (imported) wrote: Sat Jan 19, 2008 6:15 am Gary I met a person who was in your exact situation. The logical answer to that problem I guessed would be a balance of testosterone where you are not filling your system but you are still able to combat the low energy and depression. Whether this is practical is the question? The person I spoke to thought not and I'm a little ignorant as to why. Does the T only come in one uncompromising dose?
On another subject:
Here is a short list of more defintions relating to the subject of this thread:
Gender Identity: the gender a person identifies themselves with (man, woman, androgynous, third gender, omni-gendered, bigendered, multigendered.)
Sex: pertains particularly to the primary sex characteristics, ie. genitals, which is independent of gender identity. (male, female, intersex, eunuch) Secondary sex charateristics refers to being more physically masculine or feminine. I'd never thought of being a eunuch as a gender and I would have to say that this is a primary sex characteristic. Perhaps i'm wrong?
*A genetically born male who is a eunuch with a male gender identity really hasn't transgressed gender so I personally wouldn't consider them tg. If their gender id is different from birth sex then the tg label would make sense.
Gender: refers to the collective differences between males and females.
Gender role: refers to stereotypical feminine and masculine roles. This is not indicative of gender identity. A boy who playing with dolls (feminine gender role), for example, isn't necessarily a sign that he sees himself as a girl.
Sexual orientation: pertains to sexual behavior and is independent of gender identity and gender role. (i.e. heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality, assexual, fetishistic behavior etc.)
Sexual identity: relates to both the sexual orientation a person identifies with (which may not necessarily be synonymous with preference) and sexual characteristics. A person may consider their sexual identity (male, female, eunuch) to be incongruent with their gender identity (woman, man, androgynous).
Transgender: Literally crossing gender. This is a throw-away term that is so broad it fails to hold any meaning. (A man who tries on women's underwear, crossdresser, transsexual, androgyny, autogynephilia, transgendered eunuch)
Crossdresser or transvestite: a person who wears clothing of the opposite gender. Often crossdressing is associated with sexual arousal or a fetish for women's clothing. This behavior, like many fetishes, generally begins in early puberty.
Transsexual: Someone who has or wishes to sugically alter their sex organs in order to be congruent with their gender identity. Transsexualism is distinct from crossdressing as it is a congenital condition which is NOT motivated by a sense of eroticism. By this definition a could some eunuchs be considered ts? Someone not wanting to have surgery does not fit into this category such as a person who only takes hormones.
Autogynephilia: A MTF who has or wishes to surgically alter their sex organs, is attracted to females and is sexually arroused by living as a woman. This is a contorversial theory and it's diagnosis is overly simplified, although some MTF transsexuals do identify themselves as autogynephiles. Sexual orientation is not necessarily related to gender identity and this theory is based on a bias of the sexologists who developed it (Blanchard, Bailey and Lawrence).
*Possibly some eunuchs loosely fit into this category in that they have or wish to have surgery for sexual purposes or as a fetish (particularly those in the BDSM scene)?
Androgynous: A person who does not identify with either gender. Such a person may have a preference for non-gendered pronouns such as zhe or zir
Bi-gendered: refers to a person who identifies with both genders.
Omni-gendered: A person who identifies with more than two gender identities or a spectrum of genders.
Many ts/tg/cd selectively find the trumpeting out of labels distasteful as they prefer to see themselves as simply "people" and some of the labels have negative or even derrogative connotations as the author of this thread may have found. This list is for educational purposes only and in no way requires anyone to tattoo their forehead with any of these terms.
Hi Bunnimon,
Yes you can take various levels of T. That works for a lot of guys. Unfortunately I'm an Androgynous person who is in a male body but leans to the femmine side slightly. I want to be less male. I believe E is the answer to my needs.
BTW, thanks for the diffentions. I think that proves a point, labels are labels not people.
I'm not sure eunuch is a gender technically but I think that for someone like me, not wanting to be male or female, it gives us somewhere to get together with others like ourselfs, around a common point.
Hope that makes sense.
But I suppose my hiding doesn't help burn off anyone's fog of ignorance, either, so maybe I should be braver if I hope to change any minds!