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Third Sex - transfeminism?

Gender Outsiders: Transgendered & Others

The average straight or queer person hasn't a clue how complicated gender can be for a small group of exceptional folks.

Has all of this effort been pushed into transforming myself not into a woman, but into a third-sex? What is the third-sex? What is its purpose? Does it have a biological imperative? What am I? What am I becoming? Will anyone ever find a deep and resonant relationship with me if I am neither male nor female? What have I done? What am I doing? ...

I get the feeling that my friends and family treat me like a girl not because I've asked them to, or because it's the right thing to do, but simply because they're being nice. I get the feeling that in their heads they still see me as a boy trying desperately and tragically to be a girl, and failing miserably at it. I get the feeling that that's actually what's happening to me; that I am reaching out for even synthetic girlhood and grasping nothing but a comical caricature. I try to become a girl, but I fail; all I reach is the third-sex.

Cora Birk, BME: The Third Sex

Comments

i liked what you had to say, but then i have been living it for 20 some odd years. true none-the-less. i find that living as the 3ed sex; expecply post-op; puts one into a world of your own. a world that no one else is able to comprehend. i find that i is all too easy to become isolated in that world if i don't leave it and go back into the two-sex world now and then.........
I guess I could be a member of the third sex.I'm a straight male who is married [happy]. I wear bras and panties daily,have pierced ears and nipples. I have taken hormones for about a year and am proud of my 36 A boobs. I don't want to be a woman I just want to have feminine characteristics.
I would be interested in writing a third sex article, from the non-gender perspective, as a state of mind and then cognitive-intentional action. Specifically, the full enjoyment of gender absence with all partners and self. uime As I gaze in a mirror who do I see Do I see you or do I see me? Ui Me 1993

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My thanks,
Richard