Transexuality, transgender, gender fluid, gender neutral, MtF, FtM...
I don't really know what it all means. Every time I think I'm getting a hang of the definitions, it seems like someone comes up with a new phrase for what they call themselves. I just stopped trying.
I'm normally a pretty open-minded person, but all of this... I have a hard time understanding the point of any of it. Gender is decided when you're born. Whenever I read something about someone's gender issues, the person is almost always talking about their gender role in society, rather than their biological gender.
And that's why I don't understand it.
So what if you're a guy who thinks and acts like a girl. So? There are girly guys and manly girls. Little more dictates how a gender acts than simply society. We're raised saying that guys should like sports and girls should be dainty. But even that is slowly changing over time.
So why do people bother? What makes people hate themselves the way they are so much that they have to surgically change their body just so they can justify how they act. It just all sounds a little retarded to me, honestly. :/
And I can honestly see where they're coming from, to an extent. Sometimes I wish I was born male. Sometimes I think more like a guy than a girl. But that's just how I am. Just because I think it might be nice to have been born with male equipment doesn't mean I can't be happy with what I have, nor do I need surgery to change myself.
I don't really know what I am, besides me. I don't want to get shoved into this habit of needing to label myself.
I wonder if people ever reconsidered their gender before we had the means of surgery to change it. Back then they probably would have just crossdressed. So is that not enough now?
I don't know. I don't get it.