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Yes, as far as society in general is concerned. My health insurance provider needs to know my history, as does my doctor, the authorities already know it. Other than that it's my business and I'll tell you if I think you need to know or I want to, or if you ask.
OK - so you're positing that there is a distinction between official existence, in which your path of transition is recorded, and personal existence, in which it may or may not be recorded, right? However, this doesn't, for example, look at whether you are now legally represented by your gender-of-presentation - whether or not this can occur varies from country to country, and has implications for how one is treated, whom one can marrty and so on - and whether and where one ceases to be FTM or MTF and simply becomes a woman/man who used to be a man/woman - where does the boundary lie? As I understand it, you're saying that during the process of physical alteration/medical intervention/legal existence as a member of a gender not the one you want to occupy, one is in a transitional state and can be described as a FTM/MTF transsexual, and after that one is a woman/man, and no longer a FTM/MTF transexual - birth gender becomes only autobiographically relevant, yes?
I guess I'm thinking about that because the MWF cuts across that somewhat - you can choose as a personal choice not to go, certainly, but if you did want to go (because, as Ex says, precious few such events exist for members of your gender), the WMF would represent itself as an organisation entitled to know about your gender history - like the authorities or a doctor, in your model - and further entitled to make decisions about whether to treat you as a member of your current gender based on that history. |
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