I always thought that they wanted to be women not that they really liked to have a penis, which is weird because they act and dress like women, so it gives that impression that they want to be women. Moreover, I could understand the author’s statement about travestis changing his gender attitude from feminine to masculine when having a problem with a client because the conceptualization that we have of travestis in Latin America is being sometimes aggressive and from poor backgrounds. Also, it is true that most of their income come from robbing money from their clients because these individuals do not earn much money being travestis.
“Many gay men in Latin America feel that travestis compromise their public image of homosexuals and give gay men a bad name.” I could instantly say that this happens because the culture confuses the fact of being gay as wanting to be a woman. Gay men are not seen as men unless they “gain” the respect of other men. People usually think that if a man is gay, he has to act in a feminine way and; therefore, he wants to be a woman, which is something entirely