43 posts tagged crossdressing

On Getting Your Identity Affirmed (when transgender, crossdreamer, genderqueer or girlfag)

I have published a new part of my discussion with Rayka, an Iranian girlfag and female to male transgender crossdreamer.

I see that a lot of the discussion on transgender and gender variance on tumblr is based on very simplistic understandings of what it means to be trans, and on the difference between transsexual and non-transsexual transgender people.

Rayka’s story proves that it is rarely that simple, and that gender dysphoria does not necessarily mean that you fit the expected role of your target sex perfectly. Nor does the existence of gender dysphoria mean that transitioning is the only meaningful endpoint.

Click here to read more about what it can mean to be a girlfag or a crossdreamer and about the complexity of sex and gender.