Top 50 Myths About Being Transgender
From Transgender Wiki
- Being transgender is a choice.
- Gender and sexuality are the same thing.
- All trans people are men in dresses.
- Trans people can't have families.
- Trans people are just transvestites.
- All trans people are really gay.
- All trans men are butch/extremely masculine and all trans women are extremely feminine.
- All trans women have breast implants.
- Trans women are all sex workers.
- Trans women transition just to have access to more sex partners.
- All trans people are male-to-female; female-to-male trans people don't exist.
- All trans people want surgery.
- You aren't a real trans person if you don't want surgery.
- Being a trans person is extremely rare (see Prevalence).
- You aren't really a trans person until you start HRT.
- All trans people are sex addicts.
- All trans people are interested in sex.
- Trans women transition because they weren't successful as a male.
- Trans men transition because they weren't successful as a female.
- Trans women want equality just so they can sneak into women's bathrooms or other women's-only areas.
- If you don't feel like your gender was wrong from a very early age, you aren't a real trans person.
- It's always just a phase. It can be cured by religion, drugs, peer pressure, etc.
- Everyone is trans in the same way.
- Trans men transition to get male privilege and trans women try to gain female privilege while retaining male privilege.
- People are trans solely because of poor parental role models.
- People are trans because they aren't religious enough.
- Your outer shell defines who you are.
- Your genitalia define who you are.
- Being transgendered automatically means going to Hell.
- All trans people think/act the same way.
- Trans people aren't "real" men/women.
- Only rich, privileged people are transgender.
- Trans people are protected under federal anti-discrimination laws in the U.S.
- Trans people can be cured by conversion therapy.
- Gender is just an abstract concept so transition is not necessary and always misguided.
- Feminists who believe in deconstructing gender will always support trans women.
- Cis-gendered people won't keep moving the goalposts as soon as you reach them.
- People who want GRS are simply amputation fetishists.
- If you want GRS, this is a type of self-harm or self-mutilation, removing "healthy" tissue.
- Trans people are just like anorexics - they are simply deluded about their own bodies being "wrong".
- It is okay to allow transphobia and cissexism to continue because being trans is somehow wrong/evil/sinful.
- Psychology invented transexualism as a way to make queer and gender non-conforming people into straight, conforming people.
- Being in an unaltered body is more moral than being in an altered one.
- Being trans is just like being schizophrenic - they are both just hallucinations and delusions, so transition should be prohibited.
- Gender is either masculine or feminine; trans people are just confused between the two.
- There are no religions which accept being trans.
- Teens and younger people are not old enough to know their gender identity.
- Trans people are deceiving others about their "true" gender.
- Your sex can be clearly defined by your chromosomes and/or hormones.
- Transsexual, transgender, transvestite and intersex are all the same thing.