Jake Gyllenhaal says that "...every man goes through a period of thinking they're attracted to another guy."

That's the problem with the homosexuality debate. Everyone takes their own sensibilities and projects them onto everyone else. For the record, I've never "gone through a period of thinking that I was attracted to another guy," so here's where Mr. Gyllenhaal's theory falls to the ground. Much of the debate over the innateness of sexual attraction occurs among people who are to some degree bisexual (which is why so many think it's a "choice," since for them it is, and so they assume it is for everyone). But for me, and pure homosexuals, it is clearly not.

Ummmm... I don't know. David Spade's pretty cute.
JOKE! I'm JOKING.... it's a JOKE! LOL
I just happened to see the episode of Just Shoot Me last night where he gets back in touch with an old boyhood pal who's had a sex change into- Gena Lee Nolin.

I don't know... if an old pal of mine came back as Gena Lee Nolin, I might have to re-think the situation..........

If JG is correct, then that's one more proof that I never was a guy, despite outside appearances to the contrary.

One of the most disorientating things about transition is coming to terms with the fact that my preferences haven't changed, but I'm no longer "straight", I'm "lesbian".

Though only time will tell what re-wiring the hormones will do. Anecdotally, about half the women in my position remain Lez, the other half become straight, and there's no way of predicting which. Which I find terrifying, quite frankly.

SpaceCat, those stats I alluded to above imply that if an old pal of yours did come back as Gena Lee Nolin, you'd only have a 50/50 chance anyway...

Meanwhile, some examples for you to ponder: Galleries of successful Transwomen of all ages. Sorry, they're worksafe :-) : 1, 2, 3, 4

We're just normal women with normal female brains who ended up in masculinised bodies. Some of us never seek treatment, and live and die as men, with varying degrees of success in that role. Some these days are fortunate enough to get treatment in their teens, and become women at the same time that other girls their age do. Many others try their hardest to cope with a masculine life, but eventually fail and have to perform the incredibly difficult task of transition. Perhaps half survive. A lot of these people have long-term marriages and children (the maternal instinct is very strong - even if it means being a father), and transition usually wrecks their whole life, their marriage, their career too.

Only a handful end up with a weird metabolism that gives them no choice, they end up involuntarily feminising in later life. This is so rare that it's still not well understood - and often not believed. In Australia, there's Kathy Anne Noble and myself, and (according to the Gender Centre in Sydney) a handful of others who haven't gone public. Most transwomen don't, they try hard to go "stealth' so no-one knows their history.

Oh yes, there are plenty of transmen too. But being guys, they tend to be even more successful at concealing their feelings. Hormonal treatment is far more successful on them too - but the surgical techniques aren't.

Hey buddy! Watch that arm.

I've known since my teens that I'm bi. Kind of seems strange to me sometimes that most people are solidly for one or the other.

Yeah, well, Janessa, it kind of seems strange to me that anyone would want to do it with a man. I'm just glad for my own sake that many women inexplicably do. ;-)

I liked the way Alred Kinsey rated hetero v. homo sexuality on a scale of 1-5. 1 being completely hetero and 5 being completely homo. I'd say I'm a 2.