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Originally Posted by busy
Yes the effects of hormones are much more significant the younger one is, and allow one to mimic better the gender of the hormones they are taking. Although the most significant effects of hormones are during feudal development when all of the sex organs develop.
But unfortunately any hormonal and surgically treated person can never really become someone of the opposite gender, and at best are only making themselves inter-sexed. Even individuals born with a significant degree of inter-sexed characteristics can only mimic any gender and not become a specific gender either.
It will take many decades/centuries before bio and/or nano technology is able to grow/clone/replace/modify human bodies to the necessary degree before real sex-changes can be done.
In the meantime, transgendered and inter-sexed individuals should be thought of as unfortunate victims of very horrible birth defects that can only receive very partial treatment, and can not be cured yet.
Lets start a telethon!
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I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with you. You make a valid point that there are certain physical differences between a genetic woman and a trans-woman (i.e. the genetic difference), but that does not mean an individual cannot achieve their desired gender. Sex (basically, what's between your legs) is difficult to change, but gender (i.e. how one presents in society) can be changed. These changes can be made without surgery and without HRT; remember, gender and sex are two different things. Also, not every trans-person has negative feelings toward their genitalia. "Classic," transgender cases do, but there are a lot of shades of gray in the trans-community (i.e. not every trans-person is transgender! There are so many other classifications that fall under the "trans-umbrella"). One example among many is that someone might opt for every surgery they can afford, or surgery y but not x, or no surgery at all. Finally, it's not that trans-people or victims or charity cases; we are often just searching for congruency (i.e. so our body matches our mind, which matches our role in society). Honestly, one of the biggest things you can do to help a trans-person is to respect them and their presentation; being trans provides enough road blocks as it is.
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