The Crying Game / TRANSGENDER DISCUSSION

[Blindgreed1]

I don't know... if he's keeping the twig and berries he's not really transitioning, is he?

I've always associated the term transitioning as someone going through the surgery... not just identifying themselves as a woman or crossdressing. Maybe I've misunderstood the terminology.

Transitioning is the process of changing one's identity from one gender to the other. The name change, the hormones, the plastic surgery, and sometimes sex reassignment surgery.

If someone changes their identity from male to female, whether or not they actually keep the twigs and berries, they've transitioned.

But, some people will consider them a man if they still have a penis because they think that genitalia alone determines gender. And, some people will still consider them a man even if they have the sex reassignment surgery because they believe the genitalia we're born with determines our gender and that's that.

Birth gender is what counts from a leagal standpoint. Beyond that I don't care what a person does with their appearance.