# Issues of acceptance for transgendered people **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 2, 2013, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/issues-of-acceptance-for-transgendered-people/667775 "2013-09-02T00:26:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 31
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2013, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/issues-of-acceptance-for-transgendered-people/667775/31 "2013-09-03T22:32:14Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > I’m genderqueer. I’ve [written about it](http://www.giraffeboards.com/showpost.php?p=929526&postcount=5) in [various places](http://home.earthlink.net/~ahunter/Same_Closet_Diff_Door/hpsissy.html). I am not merely flexing my gender muscle to fuck with people. It has been THE central facet of my identity, the single most important element in helping me understand how I fit in amongst other people. > > Perhaps I should start an “Ask the GenderQueer person” thread? If you do start the thread I have these questions. I’m a bit confused by your self description in the link provided. You identify mentally as a woman and being “one of the girls”, but on a physical sexual response operational level you are attracted to women physically more so than men. Why would you not simply consider yourself an effeminate heterosexual and let it go at that? The flip side is the old joke that you are a lesbian trapped in man’s body. Are you or do you consider yourself fairly effeminate in your mannerisms? Would I think you are gay until you started eyeing some girls rear end? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/issues-of-acceptance-for-transgendered-people/667775)._