a weird/stupid question
As I was laying in bed last night a strange thought popped in my head. Say there's a homosexual couple who go through a commitment ceremony. A few years later one of them goes through the process for gender reassignment and the appropriate surgery but the couple stays together. Since they are now of opposite genders does that mean they are no
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It's fairly difficult to sort out because on ONE hand we're talking about sexual orientation, and on the other we're talking about gender identity.
To illustrate what I'm going to say here, let's just assume that both parties in this scenario are sexually male. Being homosexual it means both parties are sexually attracted to males, however, in the case set before us one of the males in question obviously identifies with being FEMALE, and probably brought this up in the relationship before deciding on gender reassignment. So the still male partner would have had to have been okay with this. Does this make them both still homosexual...::shrugs:: it isn't for me to say.
Having a rather old transgender gaming aquaintance (in his/her 50's) I've had this conversation several times, and we're both of the opinion that one of the things that makes it so hard for transgender (and transexuals) is that society (and these people themselves) tends to try and label everything. Gay, straight, male, female, bi, etc....at some point individuals need to learn to go beyond these labels and not get so caught up in them, they just create more problems. At some point society needs to let go of those labels. Ultimately it boils down to people learning to feel comfortable with who they are, and not worying about labels.
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