Were you born in the wrong body?

Do you feel as if you belong in a body opposite to the gender you were born with? Do you identify better with people of the opposite gender? You are not alone! Gender Dysphoria affects millions of people worldwide. After finding acceptance, many people go on to live happy and fulfilled transgender lives. Help is at hand...


Mermaids is for children and teenagers under 19 years of age, who have gender identity issues.
Mermaids Helpline - 07020 935066 - 12 noon until 9pm only, UK Time
http://www.mermaidsuk.org.uk

If you are over 19 years of age, and require a support group for transsexual people and those questioning their gender, please try http://groups.yahoo.com/group/transsexual-uk/.
For friends, relatives of adult transsexual people in the UK, please see http://www.depend.org.uk
For USA based lists, please see http://www.transfamily.org/ -
For young people in the USA there is Trans Youth Family Allies -
http://www.imatyfa.org

To see a filmed-live question and answer session between a F to M transexual and his mother, hop to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJwE3MGnbTA

Category:

People & Blogs

Tags:

• Gender Dysphoria
• Gender Identity Disorder
• Transgender
• Transexual
• Gay
• Lesbian
• Bisexual
• Asexual
• Transsexualism
• Gender Identity
• Sexual Orientation
• Pride
• Acceptance
• Gender reassignment
• boy-girl
• girl-boy
• MtF
• FtM
• M to F
• F to M

[ninjascroll6789]

YOUR TITLE SAYS BORN IN THE WRONG BODY BUT THEN YOU SAY THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THEM. HOW CAN THERE BE NOTHING WRONG IF YOU HAVE THE WRONG BODY?

[RobNorthampton]

@ninjascroll6789 Thanks for shouting your question. It is not *my* assumption that people with gender dysphoria are in the wrong body, but their own. Only they can know how it feels, and if they feel that they are inhabiting the body of the gender opposite to the one they would feel comfortable in, then for them, it is the wrong body. That does not mean that they are in any way lacking as a person, and nowhere do I say as much.

[parkourDrew4745619]

@ninjascroll6789 We have something wrong with us in the sense that we are in the wrong body. Rob said there is nothing wrong with us, meaning not lacking as a person.

[ninjascroll6789]

@RobNorthampton yeah thats right they were born in the wrong body which means there is something wrong with them. i never said they are lacking as a person

[HeilLoki]

@RobNorthampton Absolutly, but I wouldn't recommend going to a surgeon, but to a psychiatrist. Again: It's like a depression. You can't cure depression, by trying to make a person happy with a new car or whatever. A depressed person will still be depressed.

New looking genetals don't help transgender people. Man still have XY, not XX chromosomes! You are still the same person with the same feeling, the same genitals (but in a different shape) and have the same issues with your self perception.

[HeilLoki]

@RobNorthampton And don't get me wrong: That's doesn't mean, that transgender people are insane or diseased or retarded or whatever horrible word someone may use. It's like having a depression. Nobody is a "bad" person or "insane", just because something in his brain is fucked up. I'm pretty sure, everyone has some issues and I'm certain, I have some too. ;)

With "successful" I meant: In the end only the ones who reproduce get their genes on to the next generation. variation + natural selection

[HeilLoki]

@RobNorthampton Of course, it's "helpful to society" to get rid of diseases of any kind. What I was trying to say is, that no sane person, would tell someone who honestly feels, that he should've been born with 1 leg, instead of 2 (and there are a lot of people who feel that way), that he should cut his leg off. I think, you see, where I'm going. We would tell them, to see a psychiatrist, not a surgeon. That's my whole point there.

[RobNorthampton]

All I am saying is that we are only here for a short time, and I think everyone should have the chance to feel happy in their own skin. If that means that they opt to reassign their gender, it has no impact on anyone else, and is entirely their own concern.

[RobNorthampton]

We are agreed that nature produces all kinds of people, but why should only the ones who breed be "successful" or "helpful to society". What if a transsexual person with a high IQ were to discover a cure for AIDS, or could eradicate all forms of cancer? Would that person not be seen as successful and helpful to others? And, (I'm playing devil's advocate here) if that same person had had gender reassignment surgery, what difference would it make to anyone else but that person?

[RobNorthampton]

@HeilLoki I'm not sure exactly what your argument is. Are you saying that trans people should not strive to be the people they feel they could be? The thing is, neither you nor I can know what it feels like if we are not transsexual ourselves. I know that if I woke up tomorrow morning and had a woman's body, I would be horrified, and want to be male again. It's a bad example, but it's the nearest I can imagine....