Trans

OoooooK, I find blogging a bit addictive.  Mainly because it means talking about things I find interesting.  So this is my second blog in about fifteen minutes, for no good reason.

I was just reading someone else’s blog about gender, and how they believe gender is decided at birth despite what the culture tries to teach the child.  This is definitely true!  I completely appreciate the evidence for this, and think it’s reasonable to accept it as truth.  Buuuuut, I want to talk for a minute about a documentary series I recently checked out of the Emily Fowler Library (they have such interesting stuff there!) called TransGeneration.  It showed the college lives of two m2f and two f2m students and how they live everyday life.  What I wanted to touch upon that I found interesting was how the females2males behaved.  They were pretty typically masculine in their behavior, and of course they were open about their sexualities, but none of them had the kind of fear of emotion and male-male physical affection that most people born males seem to have.  They would happily hug one another without shame, and talk about their emotions if it seemed necessary.  Now, if you’re thinking, that’s because they’re still women….oh no.  There were several f2ms involved in their stories, and a lot of them were taking testosterone shots, which means a lot just ended up being as much a man as I am (if not more) despite their lack of testicles. 
This is one of many things that proves to me that men have many behavioral tendencies based on society, and that it is possible for men to get along in a more healthy, emotional manner.   …It’s just most men have to be worried about being called a faggot.  Transgenders have already suffered enough that one more name can’t hurt them.