Had a conversation with some cis male friends, not sure if I'm trans anymore.

So I was talking with a couple of cis guys I'm friends with (I'm not out to them), and somehow the result of a test uterine transplant came up and one of them seemed a little excited about the technology existing because he could now get pregnant and, in his words, "feel what it's like to have a dick inside your vagina" and so he could say giving birth is nothing like a kick in the testicles.

The other guy said all men deep down secretly want to be women, I tried to play it cool and said "Wait, what?" or say "But women would get privilege and not have periods every month" but he went on about how women are so beautiful and men can't control their sexual urges so obviously all men really want to be women. I tried to play it off like "I don't think most men want that" but they both seemed to act like it was entirely normal.

About the only way I've implied that I'm trans to them is saying I could be Cheryl in our friend group's Archer cosplay, because one of them looks a lot like Krieger. I said my hair works and I could play the crazy sex maniac pretty well, so they thought little of it. That said, these guys are self proclaimed "master bullshitters" that probably were seeing how I'd react. They seemed earnest, though, and it's made me wonder if I'm trans or if this is really a normal part of heterosexual male sexuality or if my friends are trans but in denial. I get that a lot of people might have occasional fantasies about the things they described or wouldn't mind being another sex for a short time, and maybe that's all it is for them, or perhaps they were just seeing how I'd react because they suspect I'm trans.

Is this really a normal part of heterosexual cis male sexuality? I don't want to be a special snowflake and imply transgenderism is my thing, but I wonder if I'm reading too much into a typical part of sexuality.

Posted Apr 14, 2013, 1:08 AM UTC

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