Letter to a Wannabe Transsexual
Two things: I’ve had a few people wonder where my blogging went, and, my fiance will post his responses to rather intriguing messages every now and again on his own journal. Regarding the first — I’ve been really busy; hope you’re enjoying the Podcast. And for the latter, I give you the following from a basic spam-message off CollarMe.com — the sender being a ‘TV/TS slave on female hormones’ looking to be ‘sincerely owned and irreversibly feminised for real’. (That last part is said about 4 other times throughout the entire message. Not kidding.)
So. The following was my response:
[name given],
Okay, hang on — I didn’t get it the first four times. You’re looking to be owned and irreversibly feminised? For real?
Just messing with you. But I do have to wonder if you didn’t simply C&P that sentence all over the place. Not that it doesn’t get your point across; it does. Of course, the whole email is C&P and impersonal. But as a psychosexual therapist, I have to wonder what’s brought you to the point of seeking ‘irreversible feminisation for real’ anyway. That’s the psychological equivalent of wanting to go into the kitchen, take a butcher knife, and chop your own dick off. (Ouch.) These things don’t happen suddenly; they’re fueled by a lifetime of situations and circumstances leading one to dislike and wish to disassociate with their own sex so much that they seek total obliteration.
So, before you go gung-ho on a website like CollarMe.com, seeking relocation and ‘real-time Mistresses’ who will ‘own’ and ‘irreversibly feminise’ you, you’ve got to ask yourself — what brought you here in the first place?
People in the TS community may not like this, but here’s a bit of scientific reality, brought to us via evolutionary biology. When the mind-blowing combination of sperm and ovum that brought you here created zygote then fetus, your male genetic destiny was irreversibly born into being. (This is why I chortle especially at your insistence of ‘irreversibility’. Since once it happens, it ISN’T reversible.)
As many popular celebrities, public figures, plastic surgeons, scientists — and even your own stylist –have shown us, the body is a very malleable thing, capable of great customisation. We can be born brunette but transformed into a blonde, 200 pounds overweight and magically made into a size zero — all with the skilled use of chemicals, a knife, and some diagramming.
Now, there IS no such thing as a ‘blonde brain’, despite all of the timeless blonde jokes throughout our society’s history — but a male brain? Female brain? You bet your cock, there is. And changing it? No.
Now, here’s where it gets even more dicey. (more…)
