Do you have any evidence to back up this claim? I’ll offer an anecdotal counterexample: there are FTMs that I know who retain a very genderqueer identity after transitioning (and throughout). They are more comfortable in their bodies–a crucial piece, I think, of the desire to transition–but continue to play with gender. Maybe not the norm, but there are different generations of transfolk, with very different approaches to gender.

“I think it’s other way way around. When it comes to sexual freedom, men aren’t rigidly confined at all. Au contraire. If orgasm is the aim, the sky’s the limit. Men can indulge in their most wildest fantasies and fetishes. It’s women that tend to be rigidly confined in their sex class, not men.”

Then again, I’ve never met someone who was actually transitioned.

The SRS seems like a costume to me. Like throwing on a frock, but far more dramatic, with hormones.

Glad you’re finally beginning to recover from your horrible experiences, sometimes it takes a while.

The first one. MtFs are male. Surgically/chemically altered males perhaps. But still male. I mean, you can slice, dice, stuff, boil, broil, and bake chicken a 100 different ways, but in the end, it’s still chicken. It doesn’t suddenly turn into beef.

By remaining het, do you mean, they liked women when they were men, so once they transition, they still like women? Or do you mean, since they’re now supposedly women, they are het, and so now they like men.

I find K.A’s, Satsuma’s and mAndrea’s observations, experiences, and analysis right on the money. It is my observation, experience, and analysis as well, as someone that has had quite a bit of experience with mtfs (and ftms as well, but the phenomenon is predominantly mtf with ftms serving as tokens so the boys can make it seem like a human thing instead of male thing), as well as someone that has often been accused by the transgendered of being transgendered myself, given my history and conditioning during my developmental years.

I think the mistake most women make is thinking that men think just like them. They don’t. That would be a denial of the very different way the male-born and the female-born are raised, conditioned, programmed and treated by society. Like the saying goes, when in Rome, act like a Roman and when in Greece, act like a Greek. Let’s take it a step further. When dealing with the male-born, act like a male. IOWs, in order to have understanding of what goes on in that warped brain of men, one must stop thinking like a woman and go slightly insane and start thinking like a man. See the world through a man’s eyes instead of a woman’s. Because we see through very different lenses.

My experience with tranz is that most of their stories and histories are nothing but pure fantasy and completely fabricated. Oh, gee, men lie. Men, in fact, lie a lot. Is this really news to anyone? So why do so many women just blindly believe that men are being sincere and telling the truth once they throw on a frock?

I think it’s a very common fantasy of males to want to be the only male in a harem full of women. What better way to do that than as a tranz posing as a woman? The fierce competition that so often erupts when 2 or more tranz are put together in the harem is pretty typical male behavior. Each one deems himself to be more worthy of the prize (alpha male) and wants the other males out of the way.

So there’s another perspective to add to what mAndrea, K.A. and Satsuma have already said.

I would disagree with one thing tho. The idea that tranz become tranz because of rigid gender roles. That they just want to act feminine and play house and be free of stigma if they like the color pink. I disagree with that because it is a very common stereo-type people have in their heads about gay males. So why don’t tranz just come out then as gay males? Well, part of the reason is because most tranz I know, remain het. Which makes the idea of tranz being lesbians (as is so often claimed) all the more ludicrous. Lesbians only make up 4% of the population. So if tranz are women, why aren’t they attracted to men like the other 96% of the female population? And only 4% attracted to women?

I think it’s other way way around. When it comes to sexual freedom, men aren’t rigidly confined at all. Au contraire. If orgasm is the aim, the sky’s the limit. Men can indulge in their most wildest fantasies and fetishes. It’s women that tend to be rigidly confined in their sex class, not men.

Satsuma said:
I believe they still have male voyeuristic minds, and they seem to fixate (or get their fix) on bringing up sex topics in these groups.
Actually, this is one way we have been able to detect male infiltrators (not necessarily trans, but actual non-trans males) into female-only cybergroups. They just can’t help themselves I guess.

KA. I am so totally on board with much of your analysis. Whilst there is no universal reason(s) to trans, and strict gender roles have a lot to do with, that is only part of the equation. The sado-masocism angle, ultimate appropriation of the female body (or fetishisation of female body parts), the wish to dominate in an arena whereby socialised entitlement expects entitlement in these places, etc. Brilliant.

Basically, fetishist MtF collude with every other misogynist man and choose to participate in the dynamic in an alternate way. They spin it as a handicap when it’s really a male-entitled sexual fantasy that actively oppresses women just as any other pornsick man does. It’s the rape and total control over a synthetic female body, giving him and any other man he includes full access to treating women the way they both love to fetishize treating women.

Yes, I can see this!

As for your unfortunate experience with the former boss, it is very much (trans issues aside) like the males who befriend females, but only in the hopes of turning it into a sexual relationship.

I don’t know where else I can post this for wider readership, since so many are hostile to undiluted, realistic feminism. Maybe I should get a blog too and throw these thoughts into a formal post though. You’ll be one of the few I’ll definitely link to, though. It’s nice to have a place that takes radical feminism and racism seriously, unlike a particular few who appropriated the radical term as a synonym for merely being anti-porn without any care for why it’s actually called radicalism.

“(why do my comments get eaten?)”

I think the spamdog hates you because I accidently labeled one of your comments as spam once, and now it does it all by itself. Post more, and spamdog will get retrained.