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Originally Posted by YoshimiTheEthereal

That's not quite my case, and I am not a lesbian.

I am androgynous. I was born with the female sex, but the way society describes me to be (other than physically) is more of a male, although I am not entirely masculine, nor feminine. I am androgynous because I fit nicely in the middle of what society expects me to be; I seem to not 100% fit into the male category, and especially not the female category.

I consider homosexuality and heterosexuality to depend on sex, not gender, so my being attracted to males, and being sexually a female, I am heterosexual.

Don't think that transgenderism is impossible. Transgenders have been created mostly by society. When we are rejected by society for being different for not fitting into our sex roles, we do not see ourselves as that gender. Like, according to society, I should have like Barbies when I was a child, not Hotwheels, I should wear dresses, and I should act a certain way. I do not do these things, so I cannot consider myself a girl.

Society has grouped people according to the way they are born according to someone's ideas of what each sex should be like. Like a rule book that should brainwash every individual. If you do not follow this rulebook, you are considered a freak. Therefore, if you are a female and you prefer men's fashion, or are a male that likes My Little Pony, then you are a freak.

Society needs to stop this. All sex means is whether you can carry a baby or fertilize it, and which parts of the brain you use. That's it. The "Y" chromosome doesn't say "Hey, buddy! You have to like the color blue!". Society has warped peoples' minds with nonsense. Gender segregation should not exist except maybe in special situations, like restrooms. I should not have to sit on one side of the bus because I can bear a child, and my friend on the other side because he can produce sperm.

Having the sexual organs do more then just mean you can do one part of the reproduction process. Take testosterone for example, it causes facial hair growth (one of the many "events" that it causes us to associated male identity). Estrogen on the other hand develops the breasts in women and decelerates height growth (like testosterone it does much more then just this).

Why do you have such an negative view towards Society? things like newborns being associated with an color is just an petty social habit (grand scheme of things it's to let others know generally what sex the babe is). You also must consider that it is not society but, our bodies and minds which identify with an set of characteristics of being male and female. I have given example of what estrogen and testosterone does to the body, now as humans do we not identity with like minded individuals and tend to group together? In great generalizations there ARE common grounds on which all females and males tend to act alike, and by that does society come to the conclusion how we should at least identify with one sex. It doesn't matter what you watch, play with, or dress. Society problem is when you try to identity with the opposite (cross dressing it not the clothing that is the issue but the forced identity) by forcing others to see what you are not. As long as you identify with the given sex that you are, how you act is of little concern.

Last to add, we do not live in an Utopian society. Criminals abound, and given the situation that is the one of the prime reason why sex segregation exits is to protect the opposite sex from predators. Well you might say only one person out of many, but all it takes is one person to harm someone OR cause an pact mentality to take hold. To also to add I do not have to mention much about the human races libido and what person wants to be in that situation?