Is porn bad now? I find it a weird topic for anything called "Democratic Underground"...

[Tien1985]

288. It's fine

I was giving you the benefit of the doubt that you may not be familiar with the subject--many people aren't. Thanks for reconsidering.

I understand your confusion, but transition does not work the way you might imagine. Within the scope of looking at a post operative trans* person naked, in many cases (not all) you would realize/guess that the person was trans*. Many people are unaware of the fact the transition can include MANY different surgeries. There is not one surgery that transitions a person's entire body from m to f or f to m, that is purely a TV creatation.

And that is not even counting the fact that many trans* people do not physically transition, or choose to physically transition partially. The reasons for that are many, from cost, to health conditions that preclude surgery, to lack of desire to undergo dangerous (possibly not successful surgery), to being happy with their body how it is. Trans* people who are physically in a state that would not typically be assigned male or female should still be considered the gender they identify as.

Ie a transwoman who takes hormones and has not gotten vaginoplasty is called a woman. A transwoman who does not take hormones and hasn't had surgery is still a woman. A transwoman who has had vaginoplasty, a traech scrape, breast implants, hip augmentation and takes hormones is also called a woman.

If you a referencing transvestitism, which is when someone likes to cross dress, if such a person were to cross dress while having sex, that person would still be the gender they were assigned at birth. So a man who likes to dress as a woman who has sex dressed like a woman, is still a man. Unfortunately, this can lead to a lot of confusion between transwomen, and men who like to cross dress. The reality is, you would be hard pressed to know unless you asked the person or it was otherwise stated. I, myself, would err on the side of courtesy (if I couldn't ask), and assume a person who presents as one gender is that genderre regardless of plumbing.