>>1503811I don't know that there's this deep-seated Freudian streak to the whole thing. Even the "worst" cases, the ones who go under the knife, don't necessarily do it for the attention being a woman brings. Most of them just want the parts, the attention doesn't enter into it (especially since women garner more than their fair share of negative attention, but I digress). It's about getting their body to match what their brain says it should look like.
But what of those like me? The one's who are happy having a dick, but who would gladly take having a female body if it were truly female, as in by magic? You know; snap your fingers, click your heels, say "bippity, boppity, boo" and *poof* now I bleed once a month?
Or what about the ones who just cross? The one's for which there's no true desire to be female, by magic or scalpel?
Or the ones for whom it's more a fetish than a lifestyle choice?
There's no simple explanation for it, since everyone's stories and purposes will differ.