Pronouns

[triskellian]

I'm writing about a man who is physically made into a woman, a woman who thinks she's a man, and a man who lives as a woman, and having great problems with pronouns. And names, as two of the above possess both a male and a female name. If I try hard enough, I can make up my entire word count with 'his/her' and similar constructions.

Comments

[triskellian]

Oh, I know how I'd refer to them if I met them, that's much easier ;-) it does in fact fit in broadly with their own preferences:
Man-who-becomes-a-woman would be 'he' until the op and 'she' after (because, while still feeling like a man, she refers to herself as a woman afterwards), woman-who-thinks-she's-a-man would be 'he' until the revelation and 'she' after, and man-living-as-woman would be 'she' except for towards the end of his life, when he marries man-who-becomes-a-woman (post op) and gets her pregnant.

Ooh, isn't this fun? ;-)

[jennyh.livejournal.com]

I'm Curiouse - what is the motivation for these people to have a sex change? The only group of people i know of that would want to are transexuls who generally consider themselves to be the gender of "prefrance" before as well as after after the change. From what you describe, i asume there is some other motivation . . . . maybe like the guy/lady in "ace venturer -pet detective" who wanted revenge? Or are they just really really boared? (I don't think i could ever be that bored myself)

[triskellian]

These questions have actually been answered elsewhere in the thread, but here goes ;-)

All three are characters in works of postmodernist fiction (which I'm currently writing an essay about), therefore their motivations aren't necessarily those of you or I, but...

Man-who-becomes-a-woman is subject to a forced sex change, so his motivation is coming to terms with the new body he has had inflicted on him.

Woman-who-thinks-she's-a-man is the subject of a bizarre experiment by her father in the nature/nurture vein.

Man-living-as-woman is the only one like 'real' people - he's just either a transvestite or a pre-op transexual (we don't really know which).

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[jennyh.livejournal.com]

Oh nice dad! Soulds like some seriously messed up people!

Probebly exaples of each in real life. The was a baby boy that was given a sex change soon after burth. They grew up with horendus identity problems - until they learned the truth - and had another sex change. After the 2nd - they where much happer.

Its a funny old world.