Reply #42: Gender identity [View All]

[Mabus]

If a person's biological equipment is that a male but the individual's gender identification is female and their sexual orientation is female I believe they are a lesbian. In other words, if a person is born with a penis but they identify their gender (who they are) as female then I think they are female whether or not they transgender later. At the same time, the same person who was born biologically male but has a female gender may have have also been born with a sexual orientation toward other females.

Therefore, in my mind, a person who is born with one sexual genitalia may have an opposite gender identification hotwired. In addition they may have been born with a sexual orientation geared toward the same gender that they identify themselves as. So, if a person's gender is different from their physical make-up and their sexual orientation is geared toward the same sex, aren't they homosexual? No surgery is going to change a person's sexual orientation. It can help change their bodies to conform to who they are (and for lack of a better term I use the word I've been using "gender" or "gender identity") but it will not change their sexual orientation. That's why I said I knew people who were either homosexual or bi-sexual before they had gender reassignment surgery who remained attracted to (not surprisingly) to the same gender after surgery.

Is this clear as mud or do you understand what I'm trying to say? I guess what I'm saying is that gender and sexual orientation are two totally different things to me. Maybe I'm wrong. :shrug: