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10 Most Damaging Myths about Transmen
and FTMs
from the True Spirit Conference 1999
1. Transmen are really just butch lesbians who change sex to justify same-sex relationships or to avoid harassment.
2. Historically, all women only chose to live as men to pursue careers that were otherwise unattainable to them, to seek economic opportunities, or to justify lesbian relationships.
3. All FTMs want genital reconstruction as the driving force of their transition. (not necessarily the social aspects that go along with masculinity)
4. Taking testosterone makes Female-to-Male transsexuals much more aggressive and angry than they were before taking hormones.
5. All transmen exhibit stereotypically male behavior and want to be as macho as possible.
6. Transmen seek to live as and be recognized as male in order to obtain male privilege and economic advantages.
7. Female-to-Males are far rarer than Male-to-Female transsexuals.
8. FTMs did not exist until after World War II, with the advent of hormone therapy and sex reassignment surgery.
9. Transsexualism/transgenderism can be "cured" by psychotherapy. Transsexual men are really just lesbians.
10. All FTMs come from the lesbian community, and after transition are heterosexual. (that is, attracted to women)
"10 FTM myths" source unknown; http://www.angelfire.com/on/otherwise/myths.html
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