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Originally Posted by Vicky.
OK this has made me delve rather deeply into a subject I have never really given that much thought to before.
What exactly is living as a woman? And what is living as a man?
If anyone can tell me the answer to these without resorting to sterotypes I would be grateful as I genuinely cannot think of any besides appearance based? Ie. Having breasts and a vagina or a penis.
I have long hair, but to many I would be classed as living as a guy I guess, going on stereotypes? I often lounge about in tracksuit bottoms, HATE wearing dresses, am about as little 'girly' as you can be, am not really soft natured, prefer going to the pub to getting a manicure, don't bother with makeup in general, will never chose salad over a big juicy steak, preferred 'boys toys' to dollies and such as a child, and so on.
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It's a good question. I'm not really sure, thinking about my friend, he walks, talks, looks like a man, in terms of stereotypes. And when I first met him it didn't cross my mind he used to be a woman. So I'm not really sure what 'living as a man' means for him because he doesn't really 'try' to do anything. I wonder if it is just stereotypes/physical things though. I think if I had breasts and wore a dress I'd probably feel less masculine
Our minds are conditioned to think of certain attributes as feminine/masculine, and for someone like you who is physically female, it wouldn't really matter so much if you do things that are stereotypically male, because you know in your mind you're still a woman and people will still consider you to be a woman. Whereas for someone who's trans they don't have that, so maybe it's about actively trying to appear as a certain gender in other peoples eyes, and be treated as that gender.