There was an SVU episode about this. Main story was a father was beaten up by his kid's guidance counselor because he wouldn't let her take the puberty-stopping drugs, because he insisted that with more therapy, they'd get her to want to be a boy again. Subplot where the girl in question was involved in a support group for transgender teens who decided to rob a pharmaceutical company and steal all the drugs they and other transgender people needed, because they said it was unfair that they had to pay to be the sex they were supposed to be, and they were trying to start a revolution, or some such teenage thing that sounds really grand but doesn't totally work.
Every nightmare I have that doesn't revolve around academic failure or public nudity is about that thing. In fact, once I dreamt that it attacked me while I was late for a test and naked.
Willow ,'The Killer In Me'
Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Hil R. - Aug 25, 2010 2:25:12 pm PDT #20178 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
§ ita § - Aug 25, 2010 2:29:01 pm PDT #20179 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My boss just stopped by and looked at my doodling again. I took the chance to explain it helped me think. He joked about giving me more work, but I hope I got the message across.
Still don't like the liquid pencil. Maybe the other one in the pack at home writes more smoothly.
-t - Aug 25, 2010 2:29:18 pm PDT #20180 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That's a tough time to know anything about one's identity. I would hope, if it were my kid who I had known all his or her life, I'd be able to gauge how sure they were about their gender identity and weigh that against the medical questions, but who knows how I would actually react and decide.
I am appalled at the school's requiring dresses. That's just ridiculous.
Amy - Aug 25, 2010 2:29:39 pm PDT #20181 of 30001
Because books.
I wonder if it's any easier to go F to M than the other way around. We all start as girls, don't we? And only at a certain point in utero the male chromosome kicks in?
§ ita § - Aug 25, 2010 2:36:22 pm PDT #20182 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I wonder if it's any easier to go F to M than the other way around.
Surgically it's hard to add peen. I think it's easier to construct a vagina that passes muster.
Amy - Aug 25, 2010 2:38:07 pm PDT #20183 of 30001
Because books.
Surgically it's hard to add peen.
Damn it, I meant that the other way around.
Jesse - Aug 25, 2010 2:38:37 pm PDT #20184 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I think it's easier to construct a vagina that passes muster.
Muster for a partner, at least. I'd imagine.
Steph L. - Aug 25, 2010 2:39:32 pm PDT #20185 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
The crude joke is that "it's easier to dig a hole than build a pole."
§ ita § - Aug 25, 2010 2:42:20 pm PDT #20186 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Muster for a partner, at least. I'd imagine.
Well, I don't know how much you can fix on the erogenous zone front, but you can't have a transparently mechanically functioning male member, so there's going to be personal disconnect there too.
My gender politics are way too messed up. I think if I were going to be a man, I couldn't imagine achieving it without translating the current functionality of my genitalia to XY. But I don't know that much about that area of transsexuality. I asked a lot of questions of my FTM cousin, but how she gets off now, and how she planned to? Nah.
Jesse - Aug 25, 2010 2:44:04 pm PDT #20187 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Well, I don't know how much you can fix on the erogenous zone front, but you can't have a transparently mechanically functioning male member, so there's going to be personal disconnect there too.
Oh yeah, what I mean is "easier to dig a hole, etc." I don't know how good a constructed vaginal would feel for the person whose body it is, but I bet it could be fine for someone else. At least more so than the peen.
Edit: And by "fine" of course I just mean more like genitals that come with a body, not that a transgender man or woman couldn't have an awesome sex life with partner of whatever gender....