Board 8 > What's the difference between a pre-op transexual and a drag queen?

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Not to step on anyone's toes here...

I mean is it just going to the courthouse and saying you want to be a woman? If no surgery is required to become one, how is that any different than a man in drag? Do clothes define a person?

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Kiwi

No one knows! I'm not surprised. It is odd, isn't it? I mean, can I go there, dressed as a man, and say that I'm a transsexual and want to change my legal sec? I've got all the same parts as the other guys doing it; I'm just not dressed in women's clothes. It is perplexing.

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Kiwi

Can you just go to the courthouse and say this without any proof that you're gonna go through with this?

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Gender Identity. One is a woman/man trapped in the wrong body and attempting to live full-time in their new role. The goal is to transition into a new life.

Drag queens typically have no interest in transitioning. They're men and relatively happy about it, they just crossdress for...oh, any number of reasons, it doesn't really matter. They're men, identify as men, and have no particular interest in living as a woman.

Though I've heard of some transsexuals attempting to earn money by acting as a Drag Queen, those scenarios are rare enough to not be particularly relevant.

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Even in the states that are most generous to the trans community, you still need to spend quite a while with psychiatrists and actually live full time and get a note. And then it's usually a total pain in the ass to get any documents changed.

And most states don't allow it without surgery. And some don't allow changing of anything even after it.

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"We like to think the past doesn't have any effect on us, but ignorance of the past can be as dangerous as a ticking bomb."

pre-ops are pre op

None. They still can't give birth.

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