Icon meme

[angille]

Self-tagged from tragerstreit's post.

1. Reply to this post, and I will pick five of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee. :3

Comments

[vampyrecat]

The main thing I worry about for people who want to transition to another gender but are (primarily) attracted to the gender they would be transitioning TO is that they might have the wrong pheromones to attract the people they are attracted to. I know that's convoluted, but basically I worry that they would be come essentially homosexual people who are not attractive to other homosexual people because they produce pheromones for heterosexual people. I would like to see a study on post-transition pheromones and what message they send.

[vampyrecat]

P.S. I started worrying about this when someone I know broke up with someone else I know because she was planning/considering gender reassignment from female to male and he became turned off by the idea of his partner having a penis and decided that he couldn't continue the relationship.

[angille]

After some very half-assed Googlery, it looks to me like production of androstenol and copulins is related to levels of testosterone and estrogen. This leads me to believe that if sexual preference is related to specific pheromones, that it is the smeller rather than the secreter that determines their effect.

For example, it would seem straight women and gay men would be affected by androstenol, with the converse being true with copulins. Due to HRT, and the correlation of pheromones to hormones, it would seem that a transperson would be attractive to people who find their corrected sex attractive.

In other words, I don't think it's a matter of homosexual or heterosexual pheromones, so much as androphilic and gynophilic pheromones. It would still be interesting to see that study though.