No Stupid Questions

[Part 2]

And then there's the whole thing with gender. So, for your case, it seems you were born male, or with a genetic path towards maleness if I may say it that way?, but you are a woman (or identify as? Is that the wrong way to say it?). Do you say you have always been a woman? Or do you think of yourself as a man in the past that transitioned later? After the transition you say you are medically and biologically female. Does that mean you have only xx chromosome and no y chromonome left? Are those the remnants you refer to? Again I want to apologize for my ignorance. And you are not obliged to answer to any of my questions, like I said it is not your task to educate me or anyone. But I would be very grateful if you would want to share with me some more info.

We're getting pretty personal here, but that's... We'll make an exception because, yeah why not let's make an example out of my personal medical needs! Jk, no, actually, we won't! I'll continue to use a hypothetical person. I'll spare us all from my stuff and me being really uncomfortable. (Transitioning, you end up learning a lot about your own boundaries)

So, if a person were assigned male at birth, that could be HOST of different reasons and outcomes. They wouldn't necessarily have a path towards anything. But, on average, most people, currently in today's political climate and scientific "knowledge", would go on to be raised as what you may think of a boy, taught what that means by everybody around them, and that child would do what they were told, regardless of what they felt inside.

At some point of stumbling through life and wondering what that sneaking feeling is, that person may encounter another human or information that they're curious about, pertaining to something interesting. "Transed Genders. Hmmm, what is that? Oh, interesting. Oh... Wait, I'm interested in that. Why am I interested in that?" So it goes.

All manners of possibility can occur. Some people figure it out when they're children, some when they're elderly. Usually, it takes the longest to figure out in people the least exposed to the possibility or imbued with the most shame. But one thing we know for certain, you can't easily stop one's internal truths from being, especially if they conflict with an external lie. That's a long, slow, and awful torture.

After the transition you say you are medically and biologically female. Does that mean you have only xx chromosome and no y chromonome left?

Hormones do not change chromosomes that I know of. But chromosomes don't matter. As I previously briefly said, plenty of people have chromosomal variants and don't know. There are plenty of people who are XY and were assigned female at birth, and currently live as women, and have zero idea about any of that. There are butch cisgender women who are XX. There are butch cisgender women who are XY. There are butch cisgender women who are XXY. There are butch cisgender women who were assigned male at birth who are XX who have ambiguous genitalia and like it. There are those exactly like that who don't like it and decide to change it.

My point is, chromosomes don't really matter. You get chromosomes from your parents, and that's about it.

Then, there are hormones. People come in all shapes and sizes and mixes of hormones. Basically everybody has all hormones, in various mixes, amounts, and fluctuations, etc.

Basically all Cis men have estrogen. Basically all Cis women have testosterone. Different people, different amounts.

And then you have sensitivity to said hormones. People are receptive in different ways, in different amounts, at different types, at different ages to hormones.

There's a thing called "androgen insensitivity syndrome". It's just a single situation where you can have someone who is XY chromosomes, have fully testosterone dominant hormones, but be born with, and happily live as (or not!) a vulva having a woman. You wouldn't be able to tell the difference, and a lot of those people have zero idea about themselves.

It literally doesn't matter. Maybe some of them are sterile or have a genetic pattern predisposition for a disease or something. Some of those people have total androgen and sensitivity syndrome, others not totally insensitive.

Let people live their most authentic lives. Let them enjoy life and have fun and be happy.

Let people change their minds and experiment and maybe be wrong about themselves or maybe be partially right. It's okay.

Does that mean you have only xx chromosome and no y chromonome left? Are those the remnants you refer to?

I'm a bit deep in the comments weeds, here, and can't directly check previous comments while writing one. But if my memory serves me (it often doesn't), I was probably talking about retaining certain physiological structures, such as skeletal dimensions that have already set or macro genital structures or larynx size.

It's a lot easier to make things bigger than it is make them smaller. Things do get smaller and thinner or wider or softer or warmer or colder - changes do happen. But one unpleasant fact is that almost all things on the human body like to grow with age (like old peoples' ears and noses). Similarly, you cannot ungrow a penis or let set adult skin split and grow a uterus. Things will atrophy or perform differently for sure. A medically transitioning trans woman's penis will almost always lose certain masculine penis/genital smells (and feels), and arousal patterns, timings, and even behaviors will change. For example, many trans women, when really aroused, literally get wet instead of any erection, as their body prepares. Others do still experience erections.

Minus the erectile patterns, there's a quite entertaining but now older video on YouTube on the subject of the "feminine penis" by the old queen of trans women, Contrapoints. The video is titled "Are Traps Gay?" Easily found on YouTube, it currently shows as 3.3 million views. She's mostly retired, now, probably partially because of how much conservatives have attacked her. But, in the video, she goes over the obvious question, and splits the video into easily digestible chapters, notably, one of which talks about "the mouthfeel" (yes). She talks a lot of trash, is edgy and funny, and the video is a tiny bit outdated now. But most of it is still solid as steel. I suggest watching it entirely from start to finish, if not just to be entertained.

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More related to the post, I would imagine, medically it is very important not to know only the gender, but the full history. I am no doctor so I can be entirely wrong. Knowing someone was born with a certain genetic information that affects greatly growth and possible diseases and so on is as important as knowing they transitioned, even the age at which it happened could be super important. That would be my guess.

A doctor checking if I have a cold or if I broke my hand has no medical reason to know my previous name that I no longer use.

A doctor checking for breast cancer has no need to know what's in my pants.

A doctor giving me a covid booster and a flu shot doesn't need to know anything that isn't pertinent to those shots.

Yes, epidemiology is a thing. No, most nurses and doctors are not epidemiologists and couldn't give a fuck.

Yes. Statistics are also totally valid. Unfortunately they are now used overwhelmingly for malice, neglect, and ignorance, treating trans women as weird men, rather than as women who may have hormonal disorders and a lot of recent trauma because of politics, poor treatment, harassment, and abuse.

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