[ElainMoria]

I personally think sexual identity and gender identity are two VERY different aspects of a person, ...but that's just me.

I am a transgender person. I identify as female, am attracted ONLY to females, and am currently stuck with male anatomy (no that does not make me a straight male). In effect, I am a lesbian currently trapped within male anatomy.

For me coming to terms with what my Gender Identity was, and what my Sexual Identity was, was the most difficult part of accepting myself. For 50 years I struggled with this. How could I be female inside, and be attracted to women, that MUST mean I was a straight male with normal sexual urges...

The only problem with that was while I had those sexual urges towards women.. WHAT they were, was not male. At all. I hated, and still hate the physical act of intercourse using my male genitalia. The greatest pleasure I get during sex isn't when I climax, it is when I bring my partner to orgasm by pleasuring her... without my penis being involved at all.

My Gender Identity does not set my Sexual Identity. And my anaotomy does not set my Gender Identity. I am a woman in a male body, that loves women. Simply put.

~Elain