"Transition and Sexuality: How does transition affect an individual's experience as a sexual being? How do dating, relationships, and love change for someone transitioning? How has this impacted the LGBT community as a whole?"
Those are all important questions. I am looking forward to the replies.
My quick take on the trans phenomenon is that it is a sexual desert. Looking at it from the outside, I see a culture that is profoundly inwardly focused on identity and on appearance, not hooking up.
Adolescence and young adulthood are periods when most people seek out partners with whom to explore the erotic potential of their maturing bodies. However, at the stage when humans are normally at their horniest, the person who is seeking to identify as the other sex is at war with his or her primary and secondary sexual characteristics and may well be switching off his or her libido with puberty blockers.
It will be interesting to learn whether these conditions are fertile ground for dating, relationships and love.
"Transition and Sexuality: How does transition affect an individual's experience as a sexual being? How do dating, relationships, and love change for someone transitioning? How has this impacted the LGBT community as a whole?"
Those are all important questions. I am looking forward to the replies.
My quick take on the trans phenomenon is that it is a sexual desert. Looking at it from the outside, I see a culture that is profoundly inwardly focused on identity and on appearance, not hooking up.
Adolescence and young adulthood are periods when most people seek out partners with whom to explore the erotic potential of their maturing bodies. However, at the stage when humans are normally at their horniest, the person who is seeking to identify as the other sex is at war with his or her primary and secondary sexual characteristics and may well be switching off his or her libido with puberty blockers.
It will be interesting to learn whether these conditions are fertile ground for dating, relationships and love.