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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kemrain" data-source="post: 2227055" data-attributes="member: 12153">Sorry for the hijack. I feel it necessary to add this, though.Transsexuality has been classified as a Gender Identity Disorder, often called Gender Dysphoria. It's classified as such so thatthe medical community takes it seriously. Transsexualism used to be treated with anti-psychotics and electroshock. We've thankfully come a long way.The Rocky Horror Picture Show is much more about transvestitism than transsexualism. Dressing in the clothing of the opposite sex, rather than a desire to be the oppoeite sex. While crossdressing was a part of my life when I was younger, I no longer consiter it to be crossdressing to wear a bra (I consiter it necessary).So, yeah, I would call transsexuality an illness or a lack of something. It's a lack of the proper sex. In my case, a lack of ovaries. A lack of being seen and treated the way I feel within. I wouldn't call it bad any more than I'd call being born with a birth defect bad. It's the hand I've been dealt. I think it's merely that some peopel don't understand why we'd want to give up a perfectly functioning male body for a non-functional approximation of a female one. Where some would classify it as a mental disorder, I prefer the physical malady description.  I think it helps to illustrate the way I see this and the way I'm going about correcting my problem. I was born with an abnormality, I lived with it through adolescence and hid it, but now I'm correcting it, and I'm grateful that correction is possible these days.- Kemrain the Hopefully Informative.</blockquote>

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