Depends on who you ask. The default answer you could expect from transsexuals themselves would be “chasers” (typically used as a derogatory term). In my experience, the vast majority of transsexuals stick to queer circles and date and engage in sexual expression with each other. It’s the only place that many of us feel that we can feel safe being ourselves without judgment. Personally, I try to be more open, but it’s a very rare occasion that I am sexually attracted to a cisgendered man much less feel safe around one. That said, I have discovered that I have a very different sexuality than most people.
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It’s very fair to say that I sound dickish. I have spent years among the company of academics and activists with varying fields of study and interest The commonality that has rubbed off on me is a sort of cold and clinical textual communication style which focuses on facts and truth (often with sources). It’s understood and assumed within these circles that no ill-intent is present. No one’s trying to snipe anyone, the goal is merely to discover answers to the best of our collective ability. The most confusing circle that I’ve spent time around I can only describe as the “trans-feminist activist” circle. They’ve developed a sort of “call-out” culture that, from an outside view, seems like everyone hates everyone else and no one can possibly get along. They actually seem to get along, they just have goals that they work together for and it can get really harsh.
As far as I know, AIS is AIS. If there has been a medical discovery linking it with intersex in a manner that they should be moreso related, it would be news to me.
I feel I was unclear here. I did not mean “a performing gender”, I meant that they are “performing gender as an action.” The time and effort it takes to do drag… I haven’t come across many who make a daily habit of it. It’s a performance. An exaggeration. A farcical enactment of typical binary gender. Typically done on stage or at clubs and bars. In a way, locally anyway, it’s merely performance art in motion to induce humor at the absurdity of gender presentations and expectations taken to extremes.
No. No one has to be anything. Crossdressers, transvestites, transsexuals, people who perform drag come in all shapes and sizes and have different understandings of themselves that may or may not be static or fluctuating as they evolve through their experience.
There is no way to determine this because each individual’s experience is their own. You’d have to ask each person of interest individually.
An amalgamation would fall more under “genderqueer” (generally). In situations like these, a person’s self-perception can conflict with the perception of others perceiving them. You have to decide which is more important to you in any given context. Your perception of them or their perception of themselves.
A fair one to have, imho. I have not personally talked with anyone who I could readily identify that would qualify for this set of specifications. If you do come across one, I would encourage humbly asking them if they will help you to understand who they are.
To close out this post, I will say that I have responded the way I have because your original post sets forth a presentation of authority by dictating terminology (“dictating” used in a neutral way, not a negative way) with little to no allowance that you are new to this and are still learning (which there is nothing wrong with that, we all have to start somewhere).
Personally, I found it humorous and odd that after being gone from this forum for something like 3 years, the day after I return, a thread is started focused on gender. I was very outspoken and quick to temper years ago in this very forum when I began my own explorations so I have to admit to a sort of incredulous laughter on my part that I’ve practically returned to be presented with the same situation.
These past few years have been quite an adventure for me and I don’t think I’ve ever been particularly good at fitting in to the way people communicate on srk. I just miss playing fighting games and am wanting to pick them back up and thought I might check back in here to see how this community has (or hasn’t) changed.
