Grabbed from a mousie at Wank Report

FTM is an LJ comm for discussing themes and issues relating to Female-to-Male transgender issues. sum_won posts about coming out to a confused sister who doesn't really get what the difference between feeling a different gender and feeling a different race. (Which made me flash back to Transmetropolitan something fierce.)

The first few responses are fairly stock stupid; your sister is a horrible bigot; stock subculture support; blah blah blah I have no reading comprehension; I don't realize that bathrooms are separate because of genitalia;

socialshrapnel comes along and cue the wank...
I kinda agree with your sister.
You can't say you feel like one thing rather than another if you haven't experienced both.
I'm sure plenty of females have the same gender in their head as a lot of FTMs...they just don't see the point in mutilating their bodies for it. My sister is far more masculinethan me but wouldn't dream of changing her body even if it was socially acceptable, free, and painless!
Gender Dysphoria is a psychiatric condition and like all psychiatric conditions has many different ways in which it can be cured. And it has to be cured...because who'd want to feel that way forever?
Sometimes I think most transexuals are really really fucked up in the head :/

You see, Socialshrapnel is a an Internet Psychiatrist. No, really, s/h/it really has a dregree.

p0wnd. It turns out socialshrapnel used to be FTM or something.

And now we find at least a small part of where the animosity might have come from... or not.

Other highlights include:

You're not educated. You just have a degree. Those are two different things.

I feel like a giraffe. Make me a giraffe now...don't question my motives...just change my body!