Thread: Where Is Sex?
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Old 12-16-2006, 09:26 PM   #3
MaggieL
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Griff
You get to define being what a guy is.
You have more to say about it than you used to in decades past. But you certainly don't control it all...and if you're gender dysphoric you don't control enough of it. Not to mention that "being a guy" is more than social roles and expectations.

I giess I can speak from expereince on this...having lived in decades past and having been biologically a guy once, and biologically a woman now. The hormone balance makes a *huge* difference...and back before I transitioned I got to listen to the "you get to define your own gender role now" speech given to me more than once. Wasn't true then and I doubt it's much truer now.

Being bi is all well and good. I'm bi myself. But there's a big difference between issues dealing with "who you go to bed with" and issues dealing with "who you go to bed as".
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