6 Awful Lessons I Learned Transitioning from Female to Male

Cracked ^ | February 15, 2015 | Amanda Mannen, Roman Jones

[Salman]

If you're a man and want to throw your office into turmoil tomorrow, all you have to do is show up in a dress. If you're a woman and want to utterly disrupt the lives of everyone around you, just grow a beard. What we're saying is that people cling so desperately to gender roles that when anyone colors outside those lines, the world freaks the **** out. No one knows this better than transgender people.

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[Nepeta]

Somebody correct me if I am wrong. Each of us is borne with x or y chromosomes which determines whether we are male or female. At this point in time I have not heard of a medical procedure that can change that.

Almost always true:
XX = female XY = male
The far more rare combinations yield surprises and problems. One, which eludes memory at the moment, yields a male individual who nevertheless develops as a female, sometimes a very beautiful female, who has no idea she is anything other than a woman.

[Albion Wilde]

This woman may think she can become a man, but the preciousness, wordiness and solipsism of her writing is all female.

[Albion Wilde]

Why a female who is attracted to males would elect to deface her body with surgery and inject herself with veterinary grade testosterone is just beyond anything I can understand. So, she’s somewhat masculine in her though process and outlook, so what. If she’s pleasant to be around and even halfway OK looking, there are plenty of men who would be fine with that.

When I started out in the business world at the beginnings of when the Baby Boom women started to break the glass ceiling, almost every woman I met who was very successful was married, but also had a mannish steel to their personalities. There is such a thing as a "high-test" woman, who has all the female plumbing and estrogen, but a somewhat higher than usual testosterone level. Those women had two to four children, a husband and a career, and were very tough in business but obviously capable of having a family.

[Albion Wilde]

The proper spelling is “addadickactomy”.

Both wrong. It's "addadictomy."