10-04-2011, 07:02 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-04-2011, 07:05 PM by EmilyAngelina.)
I actually remember reading in at least one book (with all of them that I have read they seem to meld together) that it is considered Gender Dysphoric for a person of one gender to wish to adapt traits or characteristics of the opposite gender, but the part of this that really got me was I think in paragraph or so before it said that Gender Dysphoria is only really experienced by TS's.
The reason that this got me going was it had also been talking about TV's being people who only wanted to experience or romanticize/eroticize the opposite gender, in terms of traits and characteristics, for short periods of time, and that every TS wanted to go all the way period.
As a note I think that I had read this either shortly before, or right after starting with my first therapist. When I had brought it up to him he stated that “yes it is gender dysphoric to wish to adapt traits or characteristics of the opposite gender. It is also not necessarily specific to TS; especially if you take into consideration the effeminate, heterosexual, male who is completely secure with 'his' male identity but would much rather wear nail polish, and carry a purse then not, and has no intention of ever changing his sex because he identifies as a heterosexual male, and not the typical lesbian trapped in a mans body, and that in terms of Gender Dysphoria being a continuum, as with many things in the world of psychology, with complete acceptance of gender identity on one hand and a total rejection(TS) on the other, and it was completely normal to be in the middle, but the general categorical name is TV for anyone wishing to be in the middle of this continuum”
The reason that this got me going was it had also been talking about TV's being people who only wanted to experience or romanticize/eroticize the opposite gender, in terms of traits and characteristics, for short periods of time, and that every TS wanted to go all the way period.
As a note I think that I had read this either shortly before, or right after starting with my first therapist. When I had brought it up to him he stated that “yes it is gender dysphoric to wish to adapt traits or characteristics of the opposite gender. It is also not necessarily specific to TS; especially if you take into consideration the effeminate, heterosexual, male who is completely secure with 'his' male identity but would much rather wear nail polish, and carry a purse then not, and has no intention of ever changing his sex because he identifies as a heterosexual male, and not the typical lesbian trapped in a mans body, and that in terms of Gender Dysphoria being a continuum, as with many things in the world of psychology, with complete acceptance of gender identity on one hand and a total rejection(TS) on the other, and it was completely normal to be in the middle, but the general categorical name is TV for anyone wishing to be in the middle of this continuum”