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jtlander

Semi-Trans

Okay, so browsing IB the past few days, I have noticed that quite a stir has been caused by RoareyRaccoon's latest submission. I personally saw the "Correct Gender Unicorn" as being a satirical entity, mocking anti-trans people rather than advocating them and drawing criticism. (I don't mind transgendered people, by the way, it's just something that I noticed)

However, that got me thinking: If there are people that are born one sex but identify as the opposite sex, why aren't there people that identify as both sexes? This is a category of my conjuration that I call semi-transsexual; people that belong to either the male or female sex and see themselves as either/or. This category is also called semi-cissexual or semi.

A semi usually leans more to his/her natural sex than the other, which gives semi-transsexuality a couple of advantages:

•  Peers will, most of the time, not notice anything "odd" about a semi.
•  The trouble with sex-segregated public restrooms isn't so much with a semi, since s/he sees him/herself as both a man and a woman.

At the same time, some confusion emerges:

•  Semis of any orientation can be mistaken for a non-semi bisexual.
•  Semis use male, female, and gender-neutral pronouns, which can be nightmarish for correspondents.

A semi can be a trans female and cis male (look for female breast tissue on the otherwise male figure), or vice versa; a trans male and cis female (she isn't packing; that's a footlong clit in her panties!).

You might call it by another name, but still, what do you think of it?

P.S.: any anti-trans remarks will be deleted.
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Added: 6 years, 7 months ago
 
Dancouga
6 years, 7 months ago
That's hermaphroditism.
jtlander
6 years, 7 months ago
Semis don't necessarily have both reproductive systems.
Serrano
5 years, 7 months ago
Okay, so what I'm interpreting from this is that your question is, "Why are there people who transition from one to the other, but nobody transitions to both?" to which, I believe, the answer would just be that in order to transition from one to the other, you need the necessary tissue, so you can either use tissue from your own body to form the other genitals you didn't have before, or you need a donor (I imagine turning a vagina into a dick would entail needing extra tissue, right?), and I think if even just going in one direction would require a donor, I think the likelyhood of you finding a donor to be willing to donate enough tissue would stand to be fairly difficult, no? It's hard enough to find donors for life-threatening operations, so since a sex transition isn't exactly "life-threatening," then I would expect the line of people waiting to donate wouldn't be very long. I think it's less about psychology or even sociology, but just a matter of the world we live in even with it being so well-connected by the internet, it's still a pretty big place, and the most you can do is get the word out to those you think would be interesting in helping out. You might never find one, but then again there's always a possiblity, right? It's just a matter of the numbers.
I mean, being non-binary with a male body, I've never really seen the boundary between indentities. I honestly only call myself genderqueer because it makes the most sense, but I truly just think that my gender identity is straight-up nonexistant, and it's not even a factor that defines me in any way. I have no gender, and while I default to she/her pronouns in my life, I will usually change it up in conversations to make others around me more comfortable. I present myself as male, typically, so in the workplace I am just a dude with an androgynous name, and any other time I just adapt to those around me just to help the conversation go smoothly.
That being said though, I do still see the difference between the sexes, and I'm sure there are cases where the baby is born seeming to be both, I think the whole "gender assignment," might actually be necessary firstly because the doctor delivering you probably ain't the smartest coconut in the whole wide world. Thye may be well-read, well-researched, and incredibly skilled at their craft - their profession, but they may be forced to act sometimes in the face of resistance. When the sex of a baby isn't clear, I think it's important to consider the difference between a doctor assigning you to "protect you from a life-threatening condition that comes as a result to your mutation that happens to stray you away from the binary" and "choosing your life-path for you." How life succeeds at all seems to have to be with the binary; light and dark, male and female, yin and yang, sperm and egg, red team and blue team, left and right, Giants and Jets, Chevy and Ford, you get the idea. You need one male and one female to make a new life, and if you stand more chance of continuing your other, stronger, more beneficial genes, it would stand to reason the doctor is trying to continue the human race if they assign you based on that, right? What if you don't even want kids in the end, and that time of his wasted, and that OPPORTUNITY of YOURS is wasted? Okay, that's kind of a statement on how you have a moral disagreement with the doctor - you don't want to have kids, but he assumes you will want to when you're born, so he assigns you the sex that would make that more likely. Now, riddle me this: you might want to have kids in the end, but the situation was reversed, and you were assigned the sex that would leave you healthier, but would make you completely sterile. You might have emotional conflicts about all this too.
Just to clarify right now, I haven't seen this "correct gender unicorn" thing, and I'm not very well-informed about semi either. I know a little about demi, but ehh... Language does change with time, doesn't it?
jtlander
5 years, 7 months ago
That's quite a speech, but speaking in terms of reality, it makes a lot of sense (no one says reality is "stranger than fiction" for nothing).
Serrano
5 years, 7 months ago
Wait, what makes a lot of sense? What I said or what you were saying about the language? I'm uh... not great at picking up those kinds of cues over text, lol.
jtlander
5 years, 7 months ago
I'm talking about the entire comment, from your remark about gender transition to doctors being dimwitted about the whole thing. I didn't expect you to know so much.
Serrano
5 years, 7 months ago
Oh... shit... Thaaaanks? :>
I guess I'm now wondering exactly what you did expect, lol.
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