What causes being trans ? Like why do I have these desires and inability to control my desire to be feminine and love men ?
internalized homophobia + misandry women made you feel this way - they don't want men allowed to act feminine without being humiliated for doing so
>>45044446So I’m just gay but scared to be gay so instead I hide as a woman ?
>>45044545yes, gay people are taught from birth that who they are is wrong and they will be brutalized if they are honest about their sexualitywomen are allowed to have a sexuality, becoming a woman is basically a roundabout way of sacrificing sexual function to some degree to become more comfy with being a sexual minority who is still willing to seek out sex, esp with other men
>>45044684Okay but how do I explain this to my bf cause he’s straight
>>45044706he's a closeted gay man toosociety is so heteronormative masculine gay men code themselves as straight and fem gay men claim to be women to fit into the system it's an external expectation - a burden
>>45044723But I’ve seen fem gay guys and they are sooo different, like idk how to explain they seem like a caricature in behavior, but me I’m just acting myself and I’m not a flamer .Even the gay guys who dress as women dress like sluts or strippers, I just dress like normal idk there’s this difference I can’t really explain fem gay guys feel like men
>>45044418bitchmade-itis
>>45044418We don't know what causes it, but it's likely innate and immutable.
>>45044418Demonic possession
>>45044418Fucked up brain wiring, probably. The answer really is just that boring.>>45044446I’m not OP but I’ve wanted to be a girl for as long as I remember, long before sexual desires or before boys and girls really got differentiated socially or anything like that. I was quite literally Born This Way (TM).
>>45044418same thing as being gay - something neurological that happens in the womb, possibly with a genetic link and subject to many many possible factors before and after conception, to the best of our current working knowledgeit's basically an intersex neurodevelopmental variation and the data increasingly backs this (reductive) view
>>45044418People will over medicalize it, but the true answer is different people are different
>>45044418all human brains start in the feminine configuration, which essentially includes the sex centers of the brain and the somatosensory centers. In males, testosterone exposure in the womb causes development of these regions into the male forms, so that the brain expects a male body shape, and develops male sexual behavior. This is however a number of weeks after sexual differentiation of the fetus occurs. So in a normal male, the SRY gene on the Y chromosome triggers a small burst of testosterone between weeks 6 and 12 of gestation, which causes development of the testes and penis. If this doesn't occur, the penis and testes never develop and you have an intersex condition. Later, between weeks 12 and 18 of gestation, testosterone masculinizes the brain developing male sexuality and male body perception. However if this doesn't happen (due to statistically low testosterone production, genetic cause of low hormone receptor density, or external cause of endocrine disruptors), the brain fails to masculinize and you are born a transsexual, with a seemingly normal male body but female brain regions. Given that you love men, you have both the female body awareness configuration, and the female sex center configuration. Alternatively some trans women retain masculine sex behavior if only the body awareness regions fail to develop and not the sex center, or if only the sex center fails to develop and not the body awareness region you're just a gay man with female sexual behavior but a normal male body map.
>>45045721I know it might functionally be more "feminine" but isn't it more accurate to say that we start undifferentiated? just from what I understand, something about different wash cycles with E and T and folds in the brain or whatever...
>>45045740the female configuration is essentially the undifferentiated configurationthe female configuration just happens without testosterone. Anyone who doesn't have enough testosterone develops the female configuration. But there's no specific requirement for female development that can be missed like that and still produce a normal brain, male development is just female development + testosterone.
>>45044418Funnily enough these are two separate drives you have.
