Transsexuality and rejecting gender expectations- a male view?

[enimmead]

You may have missed it but over on the FWR board, the issue of trans people comes up a lot and is massively controversial.

An argument goes that TS people do not fit into the gender expectations for their sex and find it hard to live within those expectations. So they think "I am not what a man should be. Therefore I am a women"

Another argument is the feeling inside that something is deeply wrong. That's why they transition but that goes against the feminist view that sex is genetic and you are brought up "according to gender rules" so there is no such thing as gender identity.

How do you see men who fall outside of gender expectations - who are very feminine in their behaviour? Who need to wear clothes designed for the opposite sex and who present as female?

How do you see women who go the other way and transition to men?
Does that worry you - is the definition of a man being redefined?

This has been a massive debate - how do men see it?

The statement "claim to feel like a member of the desired sex" is an odd one, none of the men I've ever met have ever thought anything but a transexual person is a particular gender and it's simply that their biological sex is different, it's got nothing to do with feelings at all. It's not a topic that comes up very often of course, but as others have said "feels like a man" is not something that ever comes up at all. Unless you're about to go out and pull one in Huansagain's pub.

I'm sure I don't feel the same about all sorts of things compared to other men - but neither do I if instead you decide not to differentiate and I don't feel the same things as all other humans. Or don't feel the same things as all other 38 year old people with brown hair, the groups are not homogenous enough for such a statement to make any sense.