I'm with you on this, seems like late in the game to be making such a drastic change.
I'm all for being whoever you feel you are, but for me personally, I would always choose to live in the body I was born in. Inside that body is you. Surgical changes just seem wrong to me, I would never feel comfortable with it. To each his own. These days, you can find someone who will go for whoever you are.
All jmo.
I also wonder though, like many who go thru these changes, when he becomes a woman, will he be gay, and want a relationship with another woman? That always seems odd to me too.
A friend of mine is a fully transitioned transwoman, she's still married to her wife, they have 2 grown children. It was a very difficult time for her wife to accept as you can imagine, and 'he' was a typical male in the building profession. It did seem to come out of nowhere.
She has expressed to me her desire for a male lover, and said that in her 'former life', she was actually quite a homophobe, so it's quite confusing, but I figured, people are way more complex than we like to think. I have come to know quite a few transsexual ladies, and every one is an individual and so different.
One young lady who I got to know quite well told me she felt like a female since she was little. She had two relationships with women as a male but no children. She's had the full op plus facial surgery, and still leads a successful life in the 'male' dominated movie industry behind the scenes. But at this stage, isn't interested in a relationship with a male.
It all comes down to identity and if they're solely attracted to women, they will be happier as a woman in a same sex relationship. I haven't personally met any transmales, but I know of several who are gay and a few who are in relationships with women.
I hope the media and public don't give Bruce Jenner too much of a hard time. He obviously wants to live out the rest of his life as a female but hasn't publically announced it yet, once he does, then we'll have to get used to female pronouns and new name.
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