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"TG community is mostly transgendered people." Do you think this is true?
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From: guest (leon) , 91 months, post #1

It would be great to know how many of us are there that just like the content involving tg/tf and the ideas behind them, and don't actually have a desire to change their gender. Now, I don't mean any offense to those who feel that way or had operations, I just wanted to see how many people just enjoy the content.

From the discussions in this thread (http://metamorphose.org/thread/show.htp?threadid=20445&page=1&se0=thread&se1=show and I was guest#13 btw)
there seems to be an opinion of "the TG community is mostly transgendered people."

Do you believe it to be true?

From: guest , 91 months, post #2

I'm pretty sure that's a false statement. I'm not even convinced the majority are homosexual. I think there's a mixed bag.

From: guest (Jay) , 91 months, post #3

Not at all.

From: guest (joeberan) , 91 months, post #4

I don't imagine that's true, but I do imagine as a community probably most are accepting of transgendered people and can at least sympathize with their problems. So that's something

From: Mr. Ram , 91 months, post #5

I originally came here for animal transformations. I'm a big fan of sci-fi and sword and sorcery tales. Since discovering them, I like TG transformation stories a lot, but I have no desire to change my gender or be an animal, for that matter.

I just like the stories.

From: guest (George2016) , 91 months, post #6

Interesting question. My POV is too restricted to say, but over the years I have had correspondences with a number of fellow tg fiction/movie fans. Some were admitted transvestites, one at least claimed to be a transgendered woman, but my impression is that most were hetero males. One of these explicitly claimed that, for him, tg is a very interesting fantasy/sf plot, one that is much too little explored in popular culture. That's how I see the subject also. These correspondences include some of my favorite tg-story writers of the net. Interestingly, the best of these fictioneers seem (or claim to be) non-tg. For myself, I don't consider myself transgendered. When I think about romance, I think about girls. I have never wanted to cross-dress. (Without a body to do justice to such clothes, what's the point?) I believe in reincarnation, but wouldn't necessarily seek to be reincarnated as a woman. (Though if the deal was to be a super hot babe, the possibility might be tempting. :-)

From: guest (guest) , 91 months, post #7

Nope. i wouldn't say that. Unless I'm the exception. I'm a heterosexual male. No interest in becoming a woman forever. I just like the TF portion. But I also like animal TF, so maybe I'm not the best example?

From: Polover , 91 months, post #8

I don't know it seems like overall there is at least a very large percentage of transition-desiring people; maybe like 40%. I'm not one of them. At the end of the day, I love MY body and would never want to permanently change. With that mindset, I still don't fully understand why I'm into this stuff in the first place.

From: Forestier , 91 months, post #9

«I'm pretty sure that's a false statement. I'm not even convinced the majority are homosexual. I think there's a mixed bag.»

I'm not a homosexual man, but I feel I could be transgender... At least a crossdreamer.

From: cj , 91 months, post #10

~~" "TG community is mostly transgendered people." Do you think this is true?"~~

No. At least when defining "TG community" as fans of TG-fiction content. That has been my observation over the past twenty-some years, of the conversations and discussions on the various internet forums... at least the ones that I've seen and participated in.

"I'm not even convinced the majority are homosexual."

I hate when having an interest in TG is thought of as being something homosexual. Sexual partner preference and gender identity are two different things. While I'm not saying the poster is, those who who consider TG as "gay" are usually ignorant of the difference. I would go on about that subject, but it's a topic for another discussion and another day... and I'd be preaching to the choir here.

As for my stats, regarding the topic here... Well, I'm after a recent visit with those who deal in such matters... I'm actually more uncertain than I was a few months ago. For the longest time, I've had a strong curiosity and interest in what it would be like to be a girl (or animal. Others came later.). At one time I thought that meant that I was transgendered, After the rise of the internet, and access to this community and much more knowledge about TG-related stuff, I realized that I wasn't transgender, just curious (sometimes obsessively so). But while I'm pretty certain that is still the case, the health pros have more questions, and they have left me wondering if there is something between.

From: guest (Jason) , 91 months, post #11

Nope. Not at all. I'm a straight guy and the only reason I have the fantasy of being a woman is because I love everything about women. But I'm content being a man

From: guest (Kathie) , 91 months, post #12

Interesting... as a post op M2F (many years now), I still find this stuff interesting -- I guess a fantasy of what I wish I could have done instead of what I had to do.

However, my experience is that many people out there are NOT TS -- sad to say that, in some cases however, people seem to gravitate toward that as an explanation of their fetishes. An easier and, to many people, simpler explanation than having fetishes. If it IS the right thing for them, that's excellent but I find it sad how many people seem to be trying to shoehorn themselves into the transsexual "mold."

Like others have said, I existed before the internet and had the hardest time understanding who and what I was. I spent many years wondering if the whole society around me was a construct of some sort and that everyone with male bodies around me felt the same way I did and, for some reason, we were supposed to hide it and not act like we felt. I came up with so many convoluted ways of interpreting the world to try to make myself make sense that, in retrospect, it's simply amazing.

If you have a particular trait that makes you different from others, please accept it -- and try not to pigeon-hole yourself into some title or phrase that you have heard somewhere before. We're all unique people and all have traits and characteristics that make us different from everyone else. Sometimes, when trying to "label" yourself, the process of examining traits to see what label fits can get reversed without you knowing it -- you start to behave or imagine behaviours to try to FIT a label.

And, please, let people know that you can like things like this, can like wearing a dress, can be straight, homosexual, transgendered, etc -- without having to have some particular combination of all these things. Always remember the difference between correlation and causation.

From: cj , 91 months, post #13

"Sometimes, when trying to "label" yourself, the process of examining traits to see what label fits can get reversed without you knowing it -- you start to behave or imagine behaviours to try to FIT a label."

Indeed. That, is something that I have experienced. When I first started finding TG stuff on the interwebs I actually started to do that very thing. And it was after much more research and discussion and really listening to the stories of others, that I found that I wasn't a woman (or even a girl) in a man's body, I was just a REALLY curious dude.

From: guest , 91 months, post #14

I'm male but as far back as I can recall I've wanted to be female. Heterosexual but if I could wake up tomorrow as a woman in comfortable circumstances, of any sexuality, no older and in no worse health than I am now, I'd do it. Do I count as transgendered? Don't know.

From: guest (Gypsy) , 91 months, post #15

"Hay, Gypsy, we could change you into a woman today."
"Ahh- thanks, ahh, for like an hour or so that would be okay, I guess."
"Nope, forever-"
"Pass- thanks for the offer, but no thank you."

I have a wife and kid(s), and am not in the slightest interest in guys. Pretty sure if I was turned into a woman I would be a lesbian, and if the change came with mental alteration to force me into liking men, I would fight it for as long as I could.

I have nothing against people who are not hetero, I don't really care about people's sexuality, I am saying for myself only- I am straight and happy to be so.

From: guest (Sensualaoi) , 91 months, post #16

Message deleted by cj. Post later revealed to be a slight. Breaks posting guidelines of showing respect and having a civil discussion without attacking others.

From: Polover , 91 months, post #17

I smell a moderation coming . . .

From: guest , 91 months, post #18

I am hetero but I if I get turned into a biological female overnight I would just continue my life norm

From: MissMako , 91 months, post #19

I am a Post-Op Transwoman myself. And I probably wouldnt have created all the TF/TG material that I have over the decades if I hadn't been struggling with Gender Dyshporia. Everything I've done was a creative outlet to help me deal with it. I know of many other TF/TG creeators who have been in the same boat as me too.

- Miss Mako -

From: cj , 91 months, post #20

Sensualaoi -- Please review the Posting Guidelines below. If anyone feels post 16 was insulting or an attack on a group, it will be removed. We're not the PC police here, but we do require that you respect others.

That said, as I read your post, it felt more like an opinion than an attack... though IMO, it is on that fine line of being disrespectful to a subset of our community. Please watch your future post, that they are not derogatory.

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