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[[File:FTM London (4764131524).jpg|thumb|200px|Trans rights marchers at Pride London 2010. Their banner says "Supporting Female to Male Trans People."]] | [[File:FTM London (4764131524).jpg|thumb|200px|Trans rights marchers at Pride London 2010. Their banner says "Supporting Female to Male Trans People."]] | ||
Transgender men are men who were assigned female at birth (or had certain intersex conditions), and who have a male gender identity. | Transgender men are men who were assigned female at birth (or had certain intersex conditions), and who have a male gender identity. Most trans men ask to be called by [[Pronouns#He|"he" pronouns]], though there are exceptions. A trans man's sexual orientation can be gay, heterosexual, or otherwise. Trans men are on the female-to-male transgender spectrum. Older psychological and medical writings wrongly call trans men "female transsexuals" or "female transvestites", and call them by "she" pronouns that they did not want. Trans men are men, not masculine women or [[butch]] lesbians. However, there are people who have considered themselves more than one of these at different points in their lives, because it can take time to figure out one's identity. | ||
Many transgender men [[transition]] to address [[gender dysphoria]], and some also consider themselves to be transsexual men. Any transgender person's transition path is very individual. Common features in a transgender man's transition path include [[hormone therapy]] to create a balance with testosterone higher than estrogen, and [[surgery]] to remove breasts (double mastectomy, in this situation called female to male chest reconstruction), and sometimes to remove their internal reproductive organs (complete hysterectomy). Many trans men choose not to get genital surgery, or are satisfied with contemporary methods that create a penis that looks and works differently to that of a cisgender man. With hormones alone, a trans man can easily be seen as a man in daily life, which owes partially to how patriarchy polices manhood differently than womanhood.<ref>Cary Gabriel Costello, "Testosterone Does Not 'Work Better' than Estrogen." January 19, 2015. ''TransFusion'' (personal blog). [http://trans-fusion.blogspot.com/2015/01/testosterone-does-not-work-better-than.html http://trans-fusion.blogspot.com/2015/01/testosterone-does-not-work-better-than.html]</ref> | Many transgender men [[transition]] to address [[gender dysphoria]], and some also consider themselves to be transsexual men. Any transgender person's transition path is very individual. Common features in a transgender man's transition path include [[hormone therapy]] to create a balance with testosterone higher than estrogen, and [[surgery]] to remove breasts (double mastectomy, in this situation called female to male chest reconstruction), and sometimes to remove their internal reproductive organs (complete hysterectomy). Many trans men choose not to get genital surgery, or are satisfied with contemporary methods that create a penis that looks and works differently to that of a cisgender man. With hormones alone, a trans man can easily be seen as a man in daily life, which owes partially to how patriarchy polices manhood differently than womanhood.<ref>Cary Gabriel Costello, "Testosterone Does Not 'Work Better' than Estrogen." January 19, 2015. ''TransFusion'' (personal blog). [http://trans-fusion.blogspot.com/2015/01/testosterone-does-not-work-better-than.html http://trans-fusion.blogspot.com/2015/01/testosterone-does-not-work-better-than.html]</ref> | ||