Questions from Students
Mon, 06/15/2009 - 17:33 — Nancy
- Basic
- Age
- At what age does one start realizing their sex is not what one was born as?
- At what age did you realize you wanted to change gender?
- When did you first feel you wanted to change?
- At what age did you first decide you wanted to change your appearance?
- Was there a specific moment you knew?
- Causes
- Is there a transsexual gene?
- Are transgender people a result of biological or environmental influences?
- Other
- What exactly sparked the realization that you personally were just not meant to go through life as your birth sex?
- I am confused; does this mean you are homosexual/gay?
- Are you religious?
- If transgender is not considered a mental disorder then what is it?
- What's your definition of "tranny," transsexual?
- Like in the MTV show, "The Real World," how do you feel about transgendered people being in the media? Is it good? Bad? Informative?
- Family and Friends
- Family Relationship
- Is your family supportive?
- How does your family take all of your decisions and changes in life?
- How do your children feel about this?
- How did your families respond to your decisions – from the time they found out to now?
- Do you have siblings and if so, how is your relationship?
- Other
- When your parents became unglued when they saw you, how did their actions make you feel?
- What was it like when you were growing up in your family? Did you know then?
- Why don't you come out to your family?
- Transition
- Before Surgery
- How much counseling does one get before genital reconstructive surgery?
- Are there specific doctors you go to for the surgery?
- After Surgery
- If you had surgery to change your genitalia, was it painful?
- How long was the recovery period?
- Where did you have the surgery and why there?
- Do you finally feel comfortable in your body? Or are there still things that you want to change?
- Regrets?
- After making the decision and changes, how did you feel? Do you ever feel the changes were too drastic and wish you could change it back?
- Any regrets (of surgery)?
- Do you ever wish you hadn't gotten the surgery?
- For those who have had surgery, do you regret anything you have done or changed about your outer appearance?
- Other
- Do you suffer from depression also?
- What kind of mental health issues are related to transgendered people?
- Do/Did you take hormones? How did they affect you at first?
- What was one thing that surprised you when you decided to make the transition?
- Based on your own personal experience, do you feel life was easier before in your previous gender or now?
- What is a way that society discriminates against you now that you did not notice before your transition?
- What advice would you give someone considering this change in lifestyle?
- How did the initial gender change, change your daily life? What did you start doing differently?
- What was the scariest thing for you about your gender change?
- Do you feel that you live a double personality/life?
- Life as a TG
- General
- You haven't had the surgery yet; do you use the male restroom?
- Does it bother you for people to call you transgendered? Would you rather be "categorized" by
male/female?
- Does being a transsexual make you nervous going out in public in regular social situations?
- How has it affected your past and present relationships (with family and friends)?
- How/Does it affect your career goals?
- How do you feel about fitting into society's "roles" or "groups" that we have put on each gender?
- How does it feel to have been discriminated against by your siblings, in your occupation?
- Passing
- I've heard of something called "passing". What is that?
- Do you ever think that everyone around you knows you're transgendered?
- Do you think most people that meet you know or not and how does it make you feel?
- How often in public do people notice you are a transgender/transsexual?
- If you are noticed in public, do people make rude/mean comments?
- Relationships
- General
- After you meet someone you are interested in, how long do you wait until you tell him or her you are a transgender/transsexual?
- When you start being sexually intimate with someone, do you let them know beforehand that you are transgender?