Very confused
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Anonymous
| A friend teenager child transitioned recently from male to female. Now he identifies as a gay man because he is attracted to males. I am very confused. Why do the transition if he was biologically a female attracted to males? |
Anonymous
| I mean from female to male. |
Anonymous
| How you feel as a person has nothing to do with sexual attraction. |
Anonymous
| Sounds like the teen is very confused as well. |
Anonymous
| Because he didn't feel like a female attracted to males. He feels like a male attracted to males. |
Anonymous
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Gender identity and sexual orientation are two different things.
Gender identity is your own, internal, personal sense of being a man or a woman (or as someone outside of that gender binary). Sexual orientation describes a person's enduring physical, romantic, and/or emotional attraction to another person (for example: straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual). |
Anonymous
| Because gender does not equal sexual orientation, and vice versa. |
Anonymous
| Also, often testosterone can change sexual attraction. Perhaps he wasn't attracted to men until he started taking testosterone. |
Anonymous
Do you mean sex drive or orientation? Source please if you mean anything other than drive. |
Anonymous
| Gender isn’t binary, so identity and orientation can conflict and match each other with plus/minus infinity combinations. |