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This morning a came across an article about having gender dysphoria and living a normal life. http://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/id-rather-be-a-gi...
Interesting to read and finally someone explaining the difference between sexual orientation and gender.
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Missing the research
I wish these stories would include the research a Scandinavian lab did about twelve years back now. They took heterosexual, gay, lesbian, MtF and FtM brains and sliced them up. I don't know where they found the brains and probably don't want to know.
The results. Male and Female brains really are different.
Heterosexual males had male brains
Heterosexual females had female brains
Gay men had male brains
Lesbian females had female brains
Male to Female transsexuals had female brains
Female to Male transsexuals had male brains
Results were published and the medical field along with a lot of others cried fowl.
Other labs took up the challenge and found the same results.
Male to Female transsexuals are hardwired with a female brain
Female to Male transsexuals are hardwired with a male brain
When everyone was telling these people, "It is all in your head." No one knew how true that really was.
Years of research died with my computers but I'm sure you can find the data if you google it.
Oklahoma born and raised cowgirl
Are you thinking about
Are you thinking about studies like this one from 2000 which found that some brain structures which are sexually dimorphic, like the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis, is found to be matching the identified gender and not the birth-assigned gender?
More on Casa Susanna
Today, I received the following from another chat room. Please the articles, and comment if you want.
Casa Susanna was the inspiration for the Broadway Play Casa Valentina, by Harvey Fierstein. There was a book published in 2005 about Casa Susanna and follow up articles in newspapers.
Here's the link to Time Magazine article:
http://lightbox.time.com/2014/04/14/casa-susanna/#1
You can read a New York Times article from 2006 at the following link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/07/garden/07trann.html?_r=0
And finally:
The New York Times last Sunday reported the opening on Broadway of the play Casa Valentina, a fictional account about the crossdressers who visited the Catskills mini-resort Casa Susanna during the 1960s and 1970s. The play is written by Harvey Fierstein, the performer who has done a number of drag roles on Broadway. Reportedly, it is a sympathetic portrayal of crossdressers at that very closeted time.
To my knowledge this is the first significant portrayal of crossdressers, as against drag queens or transsexuals, in theater or film in the U.S. This is a major step forward, in my view. Interestingly, the play was written by a gay man, not a crossdresser himself. I hope somewhere there is an interview with Harvey Fierstein as to what motivated him to write this play.
The Times article recounts the struggle the actors had in working to play crossdressers. Some are quoted as developing a sympathetic view of our community.
The Times article is cited below:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/13/theater/casa-valentina-fie...
Don't let someone else talk you out of your dreams. How can we have dreams come true, if we have no dreams?
Katrina Gayle "Stormy" Storm
Closest real life event
Was the Joyce Dewhurst events in the Poconos. It was a relatively sedate event but there was one tranny chaser there.
Not all of us fit that stereotype
Of only liking girly toys or are all girly. I wish that is not trotted out all the time to justify being MTF. I do not doubt a lot of us are but the outside world latches on to those things too much.