Frownland

That's not why people become transgender mate. It's a sense of identity that conflicts with what you're born with.

And then you have tumblr fanatics calling themselves trans because it's trendy.

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Xurtio

Alternatively, it can be a sense of identity that conflicts with societal expectations of gender. In the first place, different cultures have different standards for gender, so your standards for what makes a male could be considered insufficient in another country and you'd technically be transgender, there.

We even do this in our own cultures to some extent when peers call each other "***got" or "bitch" for behavior that isn't expected of their gender in an attempt to demote them from being worthy of their gender (or whatever).

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Xurtio

Wait a minute, so you DO enjoy heterosexual privilege!

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John Wilkes Booth

what, you mean cause people make unfounded assumptions? i guess i need to wear a sign or something..

John Wilkes Booth

i have to admit i'm guilty of this

posting on ultra-liberal sites like this one makes me a bit more self conscious about it but i guess my views really aren't as progressive as i usually assume they are. i guess i'm progressive in comparison to the majority of my peers irl, but compared to most of you i'm not.

Xurtio

I was reffering more to your own preference:

"i dislike the stereotypes and identity-baggage that comes along with identifying as anything other than straight."

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John Wilkes Booth

i don't understand how disliking the stereotypes of a label that applies to me is exactly a privilege.

WWWP

I think what they're getting at is that you're acknowledging that there is identity-baggage associated with identifying as anything other than straight - enough so for there to be stereotypes regarding it - so you must enjoy the privilege of not having that baggage or those stereotypes associated with your hetero-normative identity.

John Wilkes Booth

if i'm walking down the street then sure, people will assume i'm straight and i won't have to deal with that identity baggage. that's cause it doesn't fit my personality. but then when i tell people my sexual orientation i immediately take on the baggage despite it not representing who i actually am. so if anything i am being burdened by stereotypes that other lgbt people perpetuate simply by being of the same sexual orientation as them

i have actually been ridiculed by one of my gay friends before for not 'embracing the culture' and all that. but it really just doesn't appeal to me.

Dylstew

Wait, could you please elaborate on what you mean by transgender? A man that turned into a woman, a man that turned into a woman but kept his dick, a woman that turned into a man, a woman that got a dick, I'm not sure what's all possible, I don't know **** about transsexuals.